http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-library-of-congress-asked-to-pull-webcasting-licenses.html Ars Technica is reporting that Media Rights Technologies is at it again. This is the company that threatened to sue some companies because they didn’t do enough to stop ripping internet streams. Their solution was to use/buy their product. Those lawsuits still haven’t come to pass but now they’re asking the library of congress to revoke the statutory license of online radio stations. Read the rest »
DRM Free Music and Paul McCartney Arrive on iTunes
Along with the iTunes update Apple added DRM-free music and Paul McCartney’s collection (not the Beatles) to the iTunes store. The FAQ says the DRM free music is available in all countries that have an iTunes store. This appears to have made iTunes very popular. The store is slow for me and my attempt to upgrade my library timed out during the downloads yet downloading a couple podcasts went just fine. The song downloads finally completed the morning of June 2nd at 5:30am. The new DRM-free songs are called iTunes [...] Read the rest »
Apple Updates Quicktime Security and iTunes DRM
Apple has released updates for both Quicktime and iTunes. The updates are for the software on both Windows and OS X. The Quicktime patch is a security update that patches two vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious website to either run code on a computer or get infomation from a computer. Apple also released an update to iTunes that adds support for DRM free music. It looks like Apple might just make their promise of DRM-free music available in iTunes by the end of May. The updates will be pushed [...] Read the rest »
Bits and Pieces
Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have a bunch of little things I’ve either started or have noticed around the web. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided to summarize them here. Software News Hawk Wings had news of Correo 0.2 which is an open source e-mail client based on Camino and Thunderbird. With my move off of mail.app due to some problems [...] Read the rest »
Buy Our Product Or We’ll Sue!!!
My first reaction was this was a new low for our legal system. But after reading the article I realized it’s still on the fringes and that system seems ready to laugh them out of court, should they decide to go there. Two companies (one is a subsidiary of the other, so just one bonehead decision was made) sent cease and desist letter to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and RealNetworks because they aren’t using their product. Since this is probably a publicity stunt I decided not to print the company names [...] Read the rest »
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