Dianne Feinstein's "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act" would permanently hobble your ability to record off the radio and force webcasters to use DRM formats.. Are you fucking insane? This is the most short-sighted, monopolistic, brazen legislation I've seen from Congress in quite some time …

Interesting to note that playing Digital Restriction Managed (DRM) content on portable devices can suck the batteries quicker than normal media. (article here). So, now you know that DRM can cost you in more direct ways than you may have realized.

Ed Foster has a great article connecting the dots on the recent Sony DRM ~~fiasco~~ situation. This is interesting to me because 1) I don't have a way to check this rootkit personally, and 2) it makes sense beyond the "we just want to protect our intellectual property" bullshit arguments …

I think I'm hitting my saturation point with all of the bullcrap that is flowing out of the record labels nowadays. It's not so much the quality of the music, as it is the way the record labels are treating their supposed customers. Earlier this week, Ed Foster griped about …

This article in The Register starts off with some of the de-hancements that Apple has introduced with newer versions of iTunes in order to appease the RIAA, or lord-knows-who, but later engages an interesting point about DRM in general. It used to be that the Digital Lifestyle meant that you …