Archive for February, 2007

Whisky Tango Foxtrot – DCMA retort!?!

  • February 28th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

Get it? Retort? Re-tort? From here: Today, Reps. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.) introduced what they call the “Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship” (or FAIR USE) Act they say will make it easier for digital media consumers to use the content they buy. The lawmakers seek to amend the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright [ READ MORE ]

100 year mash up

  • February 28th, 2007
  • Posted in Videos

Take the first scifi movie ever made (A Trip to the Moon) and mash it up with a myriad of modern electronic music. What do you get? Awesomeness! [ READ MORE ]

The Vault

  • February 26th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

I was in Amarillo for a good chunk last week… and there happens to be big door down there that I just love to look at. I don’t know what it is, but this massive old vault door is just the stuff of movies. It resides in my company’s Amarillo office (the building used to [ READ MORE ]

Another Nail In the Coffin

  • February 13th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

From here: Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc “volume keys” to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we’re now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the “processing key” used to decrypt [ READ MORE ]

Relationship Building

  • February 13th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

I read somewhere once that maintaining relationships is the hardest thing to do in your life. And as such, unless you are building a business, it should only take 10% of your time or less. It even went to say that if you aren’t trying to network in order to gain something, you [ READ MORE ]

Hilarious “Legal” Disclaimer on a torrent site

  • February 12th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

I came across this from a intellectual property discussion and the legality of downloads: To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don’t think twice about it. To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that OscarTorrents [ READ MORE ]

Reading Minister Faust

Isn’t that the coolest name ever? Minister Faust. There is so much depth to that name, both in context and in subtlety. It almost sounds like the name of a character of a hero archetype in a Hellblazer comic. A foe perhaps of John Constantine or an elder spirit fighting the wars [ READ MORE ]

Guitar Hero is coming to the Wii

  • February 8th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

And I have a Wii. (Thanks to my lovely wife being such a great Target sleuth). And I love Guitar Hero (as discussed here.) The official announcement hasn’t been shot off from Activision yet, but the CEO of Activision announced that it is officially heading our way in a conference call to the general public. [ READ MORE ]

Ahhhhhhh… being the bookie is best

  • February 7th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

with my mind on my money and my money on my mind [ READ MORE ]

Pretty much a must read for anyone with digital music

  • February 6th, 2007
  • Posted in Stuff

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on DRM in the marketplace [ READ MORE ]

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