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Bailing out the press, newspapers at risk
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| The New York Times is in trouble, layoffs are underway and even small town
| publications are finding they're not immune to the recession and its affect
| on their business of reporting the news.
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| As an independent web news publisher I have little sympathy for newspapers,
| though publishers online are feeling the economic pinch of the recession as
| well with ad rates down considerably.
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| Reporter Robert MacMillan noted in a December 31, 2008 Reuters story that two
| major Connecticut newspapers were in jeopardy of closing for good if
| something isn't done to come to their rescue. "The Bristol Press, may fold
| within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain," wrote MacMillan.
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http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/17320
DRM as Freedom-Eating Infection
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| I've often written about DRM, and how it is antithetical to free software.
| But here's an interview with Amazon's CTO, which provides disturbing evidence
| that it actively *reduces* the amount of free software in use...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/drm-as-freedom-eating-infection.html
Recent:
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
35 Days Against DRM -- Day 7: Prince: Friends without benefits.
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| Mike McCarty sends in his horror story of being a Prince fan, as a reminder
| of some of the tricks being pulled on music fans in this DRM age. Mike wins
| one of our T-shirts and a DRM-free album from Magnatune.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/day07-prince
Valve boss lets off steam about DRM
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| PRESIDENT OF VALVE SOFTWARE Gabe Newell has said that he thinks the DRM on
| computer games is "just dumb".
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/03/valve-boss-lets-steam-drm
DRM is always anti-user
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| No user likes DRM. What Cory Doctorow said about Sony is really true for all
| DRM: “No Sony customer woke up one morning and said, “Damn, I wish Sony would
| devote some expensive engineering effort in order that I may do less with my
| music.”". Expanding the DRM acronym (to mean “digital restrictions
| management” or “digital rights management”) is a matter of what side you’re
| on. If you’re on the user’s side, the side that says you ought to be able to
| treat stuff you bought as your own, you’ll not forget that “digital rights
| management” is “private language” as well. It’s language that exists to
| promulgate the publisher’s perspective instead of the user’s perspective thus
| reframing the debate to getting us to believe that our needs are less
| important or completely ignorable. The thing that makes DRM interesting to
| publishers is how well it can restrict users from doing what users want to
| do. Hence digital restrictions management is a more honest way of looking at
| what DRM means.
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/11/28/drm-is-always-anti-user/
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
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