This is just a quick post to say how much Microsoft and their draconian OS licensing mechanism are pissing me off right now.
Last week my computer stopped booting. I didn’t get around to looking at it until a few days ago because I had visitors over from the UK. Not just that, it is Christmas, [...]
I can fully understand the desire a developer has to protect their creation from being copied illegally. I can understand why some steps would be taken to mitigate the risk of losing money due to piracy. What I can’t understand is why some companies go so far with their anti-piracy measures that it starts to [...]
I have a few questions for you:
How would you feel if TV channels changed automatically because you weren’t paying attention to the ads?
Would you like it if your newspaper closed by itself because you were reading the articles but skipping over the classifieds?
How happy would you be if you were kicked out of a cinema [...]
Over the last day or so, stacks of people have been hammering digg as a revolt against their recent actions. For those of you who don’t know, HD-DVD encryption was cracked recently and the master key which allows all movies to be ripped has been released across the web. Digg, in their infinite wisdom, [...]
I can’t help but feel that over time the world is getting harder to live in. To be a bit more precise, it’s becoming very difficult to do anything at all for fear of putting yourself in the firing line, or on the receiving end of a law suit. Two things that have caught [...]
You gotta hand it to this guy, he says that he “doesn’t like closed systems”, which is pretty darned obvious The man, Jon Lech Johansen, who years ago cracked the DVD encryption known as CSS, and released (with two other unknowns) the software that could be used to decrypt DVDs (called DeCSS), has taken [...]
I can no longer resist the temptation to talk about DRM (at least in part) after the issues that I faced over the weekend. I know I’m not the only one that has experienced the pain that I’m about to describe, and I’m pretty pissed off about it.
I’m going to be getting married pretty soon, [...]
