Day Aginst DRM
Thats right gentle readers, a day aginst DRM. DRM stands for digital rights management. And Boingboing, the big brother of all that is cool and free on the web, the protector of our interweb rights, brings us the whole load down on the day aginst DRM:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/03/day_against_drm_toda.html
BoingBoing brings us articles on DRM free music search engines, Things done against DRM, things that DRM broke, & technologies that we could of had or is now gone due to DRM. Not that DRM is comepletely crap. The Wang supports the artisits out there whoe deserve their fair share. But having corporation impose on a user when/where he/she can use something they legally paid for is absurd. Sure one can throw this in the liberal movement against The Man, but the current application of DRM simply does not work. In fact the ppl that DRM are suppose to fix, never uses anything that has DRM in it. So the only person this system effects are the ppl who legally bought their copies of videos or music. Beyond the rent, yes the digital medium business model is still standing on shacky grounds. Sure iTunes seems to be making money, but everyone and their 14 yr old kid brother gets around iTunes DRM... who knows. The Wang personally think it is a "less evil" situation, in which, this is the only thing that business CAN do now. Though i dont think the big corps are trying really hard on coming up with new business models, rather they like to spend money on law sue tactics to scare the tweens.
And weeks later, here's the interweb load of recent interesting stuff:
Oddly fun game: Line Rider Here are some examples of really cool ones: Helicopter escape
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Times magazine gives us the Top 100 novels of the last century starting from 1923.
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I remember the 60s… Kiki would run all over in here little white dress. It was more like just 67, 68, and few month in 69.
Though, I do like this quote about the director, Ellen von Unwerth:
"Ellen photographs women like objects, almost like a voyeur. They're very sexy photos. If you look at her photos, you would say a man made them. I would say an older man who likes young girls."
-- Isabella Rossellini
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Best Album Review ever! by Pitchfork for Jet’s new album: Shine On.
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Personally, the Wang thinks that Gnarls Barkley is a genius. Between the Vader seesions of “Crazy" Live and just the musical goodness, here’s the new video for “Gone Daddy Gone" where they r bugs checking out a girl:
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Alrighty, cya in the interweb or at some anti-DRM rally or just that dive bar on Market st.
THANKYOUs:
Waxy Links, Best Week Ever, March Hare, Golden Fiddle, BoingBoing
