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Syndicate your weblog and get … nothing.

By thudfactor on June 13, 2006

Via
MacRaven, here’s an article that describes how the web syndication service BlogBurst encourages users to permanently trade away thier copyright rights for
almost nothing at all. And in some cases worse than nothing.
These abusive EULAs (End User Licensing Agreements) are spreading an oily film on just about everything.
Consider the Microsoft URGE EULA: Spyware + Warrantless [...]

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DRM That Shall Be

By thudfactor on February 10, 2006

Sorry, dude! You can’t make a DVD of your movie because you can’t afford the DRM you don’t want to put on there anyway!

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iTunes and Me

By thudfactor on April 1, 2005

Until month ago I was a fairly compulsive iTunes shopper. I have over 600 iTunes tracks, almost all of them bought in the last year or so. I used to hear about an interesting album, _listen_ to the entire album through Rhapsody, decide I wanted it, and then download the thing — all legal and all [...]

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Little Kid Games

By thudfactor on November 5, 2002

I am incensed. Sony has forced Acclaim to censor BMX XXX, so there will be no topless dirt-bike riders on the Playstation 2 in the near future.
What really annoys me is that the Playstation 2 has a very adult demographic — unlike the GameCube, which is getting BMX XXX uncensored. But Sony has apparently decided that games [...]

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