Thursday, April 27, 2006

Two things today

Two things today, one is for those of you who enjoy surfing the net with Internet Explorer and the other is a little quiz about spyware.

First the Internet explorer goodies site.

Internet Explorer Ad-ons

Second is the spyware quiz  n-joy!

Spyware Quiz

Have a great day!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Another bit about the recording Industry Association of America. (RIAA)

They just cant seem to get it right, they have sued a family in GA that don’t even own a computer, and now they have sued a dead grandmother.  These guys actually think a court is going to give them credit when they actually sue a person who owns a computer and is alive?!?!?!

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=728&NewsID=713614&CategoryID=11575&on=1

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31229

And here they seem to have gotten somthing kinda sorta right.

http://www.nexbeta.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=28

Thursday, April 20, 2006

WOW a new post

WOW a new post!

Ok, everyone know by now that I am the worlds worst at blogging.  Late posts, weeks, no months between posts.  Oh well, tis my nature to be that way so I will have to accept it.  

Anyway, today I wanted to chat a little about technology.  It seems that today there is a lot of talk about Digital Rights Management (DRM), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and what is right and wrong.

A little background on this for those of you who are not familiar with all this mumbo jumbo about music sharing, copying and stealing.

As defined by Wikipedia
Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term referring to any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined policies controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data and hardware. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the term refers to any such management.

The RIAA as defined by themselves

http://www.riaa.com/issues/piracy/default.asp

What I don’t understand is why the RIAA does not help support the digital media industry more than it is trying to destroy/hamper its growth and evolvement.  I think if they had embraced it from the beginning and help to grow the digital music industry, there would be less pirating of music and videos, and more legit paid for copies on people’s computers.

Anyway, just something to think about.

Listening to my music freely
TMS