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Sysadmin mantra: Think 'abundance,' softly does it
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| What will your keynote at linux.conf.au be about?
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| I'm going to talk about the "scarcity mindset", how it holds us back, and how
| adopting an "abundancy mindset" would free us to think more creatively about
| IT.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/011009-sysadmin-mantra-think-abundance-softly.html?hpg1=bn
FTC Town Hall to Address Digital Rights Management Technologies - Eve
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| Digital rights management (DRM) refers to technologies typically used by
| hardware manufacturers, publishers, and copyright holders to attempt to
| control how consumers access and use media and entertainment content. Among
| other issues, the workshop will address the need to improve disclosures to
| consumers about DRM limitations. Interested parties may submit written
| comments or original research on this topic.
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https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-DRMtechnologies/
Recent:
Apple's new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures
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| Apple's new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will
| prevent protected media, such as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back
| on devices that aren't compliant with the new priority protection measures.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html
MP3 Store Guide: ‘Don’t buy DRM’ (like iTunes)
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| Yesterday korporate download sites HMV, Woolworths, 7digital, Digitalstores,
| Tescodigital, Tunetribe, and Play.co launched a new ‘100% MP3 compatible’
| logo devised by the Entertainment Retailers Association.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17493
EFF: Apple DisplayPort DRM Will Lead to More Piracy
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| When Apple released its new MacBook and MacBook Pro models, as well as
| updated MacBook Air models, one feature of those latest laptops touted by
| Apple was their Mini DisplayPort video connection. This new connector is part
| of an open standard and is smaller than the DVI, mini-DVI, and micro-DVI
| ports found on the previous generation of Apple laptops. But there's one
| feature of the Mini DisplayPort on Apple laptops that isn't sitting well with
| many users--High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154583/.html?tk=rss_news
Related:
A Linux User's Perspective on the ITunes Store (and DRM in General)
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| What if tomorrow you went to Best Buy or Walmart or Sam Goody and purchased a
| CD? What if, before you left the store, the salesman told you that although
| the CD was in all other respects a standard CD, that you could only play it
| if you owned a Pioneer or Sony stereo? Would that make any sense? Would it
| make you a bit hesitant about buying music from that store again?
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| Well, if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes Store,
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| [...]
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| With content from the iTunes Store, however, users may find themselves a bit
| stuck if they ever want to make the switch to a more open computing platform,
| such as Linux. Because none of the DRM-restricted content from the iTunes
| Store will play on Linux. And it's all because that's how Apple wants it, to
| be honest, and not because of any technical limitation.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/324936/a_linux_users_perspective_on_the_itunes.html
Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights
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| [...]
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| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html
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