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And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Your mission for this weekend: go to your local library–if you can find one that doesn’t [fingerprint](http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/21/fingerprint_scanners.html)–check out a copy of 1984 and the director’s cut DVD of Bladerunner. Read the one, watch the other, and report back on Monday. HP just announced [your future](http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050527005136&newsLang=en), and you’ll probably want to get a leg […]

DRM: The Fights You Can Win

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I’ve been mulling over something David Gratton mentioned the other day:
> Now a recent post from a Princeton student has got me thinking. If a technology inhibits fair use, but does not inhibit illegal copying and distribution should the technology be legal at all? That is what DRM technologies do. They severely […]

DRM: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IS

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

About a two weeks before I started this blog, I posted a rant to my (now) personal journal about the way everyone whines about DRM, but no one does anything about it. It seems [Evil Genius Chronicles](http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi) heard me. If you don’t mind the profanity, [Take Your DRM and Shove It](http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/04/27#050427_03) is an […]