I bwoke it.
Sorry, new studio = new problems. Today, in the five minutes I had, I broke it.
We’ll be back tomorrow. Here’s what I wrote for today, with a link in the show notes.
Seems like we’re always harshing on DRM, but guess what, there’s always something to harsh on. Today’s sip of hater-a-ade? T-Mobile’s parent company, deustche telekom, says up to 75% of their customer support calls for their music service Musicload are related to DRM. Musicload is in a fierce battle in the german market against the iTunes Music store, but unlike their competitors from cupertino, Musicload allows labels and artists to sell their music without any DRM. Seems like they took an apple-esque public letter approach to put pressure on the labels to relax DRM, but hey, it’s not like apple hasn’t ever copied anyone before.
Mid-day update
Today’s mid day update, we’ve got the Wii selling like gangbusters, Ashcroft selling out, Windows is probably cracked and conservatives convinced wikipedia is cracked in favor of liberals.
Vista cracked (for real!)
The collective internet community was hoaxed on Friday, and yeah, we all should have known better, but now it sounds like someone really hacked Vista’s activation scheme!
[Thanks, Nathan!]
Vista’s activation gets cracked
Using an illegal serial for your copy of Vista? Thanks to a visual basic script, you can probably use it for a little longer.
Tuesday, February 27th
Estonia holds first national elections allowing internet voting… YouTube’s CBS deal falls through, plus pundits weigh in on YouTube’s future post content filtering… and surprise surprise, next gen optical falls victim to another hacker opening up the medium to less restrictive uses.
RIAA gone CRAZY!
The RIAA responds to yesterday’s open letter by steve jobs, but basically ignores the meat of Jobs’ letter.