Category Archives: Digital Rights & Wrongs

Digital Rights & Wrongs: CopyRight, DRM

DRM free Songbird Media Player is out of the nest with R1.0!

By Ian | December 2, 2008

in the works since 2005 has SongBird has reached a major milestone with is 1.0 release!!
What is it? A DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, or they “restrict your rights to digits”. ) free, non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible (plug-in services!!), open-source, customizable music player. That’s what!
It’s built atop XULRunner platform (also used by Mozilla [...]

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Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform

By Ian | February 4, 2008

Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act it wants to get passed so as justify the digital locks (that don’t work) to [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 21st

By Ian | January 21, 2008

Dilbert.com >> I’m Incubating my brain out…

- and it hurts
- Startup Humour
CSS Floats Without Text Wrap – Understanding floats is extremely important when creating CSS layouts. One of the trickiest issues when dealing with floats is stopping text from wrapping underneath a floated element.
- css webdesign
The best free web development add-ons for IE 6 [...]

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Uncrackable DRM is, very likely, Neither.

By Ian | September 11, 2007

The title of the Information Week column by Alexander Wolfe is both provocative and misleading. Microsoft has patented (U.S. Patent 7,266,697) “Stealthy audio watermarking”, which Mr Wolfe suggests could lead to “Uncrackable DRM“.
However even reading the patent’s abstract (”The watermark identifies the content producer, providing a signature that is embedded in the audio signal [...]

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Code is Culture Recent Links for July 13th: DRM Law & What’s next in RSS

By Ian | July 14, 2007

The making of DRM Law; What’s next in RSS;

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Bloggin’ ’bout my generation

By Ian | June 8, 2007
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A Songbird is Hatched.

By Ian | February 9, 2006

The Songbird Media Player, built with XUL and DRM free, was hatched yesterday in a preview release…

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Election Night in Canada : After the Vote!

By Ian | January 24, 2006

Tories are in, Sam is gone, and Bloggers made a difference!

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Election Night in Canada : Celebrating CopyRight Bulte!

By Ian | January 17, 2006

Parkdale/High Park incumbent MP, Sarmite (Sam) Bulte, is still holding a fundraiser hosted by various lobbyists: Doug Frith (President of Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association – CMPDA), Graham Henderson (President of Canadian Recording Industry Association CRIA ), Jackie Hushion (Executive Director of the Canadian Publishers Council), Danielle LaBossiere (Executive Director of the Entertainment Software [...]

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Election Night in Canada : Parkdale / High Park All Candidates debate

By Ian | January 11, 2006

I was at tonight’s “All Candidates debate” at Runnymede United Church (432 Runnymede Road, just north of Ardagh ,south of Annette), presented by the Bloor West Village Residents’ Association.
We had six candidates out this evening: Sarmite Sam Bulte, Liberal Party of Canada; Lorne Gershuny Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada; Jurij Klufas, Conservative [...]

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