Updated: 6/8/06; 8:23:54 PM.

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

...any of the terms of service or EULA's (End User Licencing Agreement) that you agree to on a weekly basis? We click on boxes, ignore the back of tickets stubs that say "get hit by a puck, it's not our fault" and rip open CD's and toss them into our computers to add the music that we've bought to our libraries.What are you agreeing to? We've already mentioned the DRM problems with Sony CD's; check out the Sony EULA... you're probably breaking the law right now.

from Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow:

Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit.

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UPDATE: The BBC reports that class action suits have been filed against Sony/BMG for their DRM/"Rootkit" copy protection use...

ANOTHER UPDATE?: Leave it to Sony... they have found a way for their DRM to mess with Macs too, according to this report found on Boing Boing...

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For those of you who have listened to PIBC #31, I received a call from Todd at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL (the place where my pouch/wallet/Leatherman was "liberated" from me) informing me that a cleaning woman found my pouch behind an ice machine! He informed me that there was no cash in the wallet (surprise), but it did have credit cards and other items intact. He is mailing it to me here at home.

As I did not leave it behind the ice machine, I'm guessing that the thief (I guess I can now use the word unless "liberating" cash has a new meaning) grabbed my stuff from stage left, took what he needed for bus fare and ditched the bag on the way out. I'll be curious to see what remains. Maybe I'll record the reunion with it for the next PIBC...

I'm extremely grateful to Todd for taking the time to track me down and contact me and to the nameless cleaning woman, thank you; the other things in that bag are the things I would miss the most.

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from the CBC:

k.d. lang suing former business manager

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   I've really enjoyed the following podcasts this week; through IT Conversations I found this discussion between Dr. Moira Gunn and Gerd Leonhard, the co-author of The Future of Music.

    The next has been a mini-series of podcasts that I'm guessing are taken from the documentary which accompanies the 30th Anniversary remastered version of Springsteens's Born To Run, which comes out next week and includes the remastered CD, the documentary on DVD, and a third disc which includes footage of a 1975 London concert of BS and the ESB... The feed for the podcast is here...
   
    Last is a usual favorite and I know that for some, listening to a bunch of developers speculate on the future of anything is hardly entertaining, but the latest Gilmor Gang discusses the announcement of Windows Live & Office Live with Robert Scoble and raises some interesting points about how the future of web based apps is going to effect the desktop based software companies... you can access the podcast here...

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