Honestly, this shouldn't come as a surprise, but HP dumped Linux in favor of XP for a new media device they're preparing for market. Honestly I don't blame them in the least for making this decision. Playing media on Linux is a real pain nowadays. Media codecs are all proprietary …

I sent Ed Foster a mail a while back about this column, which dealt with one unfortunate soul's problems with DRM preventing him from a legitimate usage of the software he purchased. My mail is at the botton of the follow-up article. (The comment that says the copy protection is …

They Might Be Giants. They get it.

Digital Rights Management (or Digital Restrictions Management, as Richard Stallman has coined it) is an umbrella term for the copy protection that corporations are using to try and protect their digital assets. Cory Doctrow gave a speech at Microsoft outlining why DRM doesn't work. Worth a read. Here's hoping companies …

SunnComm is planning to sue a student who nullified their Digtal Rights Management software using the shift key on a Windows machine. By pressing the shift key, Windows will not run the software encoded on the disc, which renders their DRM null and void. Of course SunnComm isn't too pleased …