When called to testify in an RIAA trial about music file sharing, Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, embarrassed herself with a rather simplistic statement:
“When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Making “a copy” of a purchased song [...]
This remarkable HCI insight comes from a comment on Amarok’s blog, where people have been very busy trashing the latest Amarok2 UI mockup which happens to be, let’s be honest because it’s only a mockup anyway, quite horrible.
Wasted place all over the place, too small text placed within too large widgets, inconsistent style, a festival [...]
I made a cameo appearance in Business Week’s article about our NEC C&C Innovation Lab entitled NEC’s “Big Brother” Lab (Aug. 16, 2007). It follows the inauguration day of the lab on July 12, when the press and officials came to visit the building and were shown prototypes of different projects happening here.
It is remarkable [...]
Le pathétique spectacle qui égaie le Tour de France ces derniers jours évoque une animalerie crasse, dont les occupants caquetteraient confusément à la découverte faussement inattendue de son insalubrité. Naturellement, les révélations successives ne surprennent que les sportifs de salon qui, affalés dans leur sofa, avaient soigneusement avalé les promesses d’un “Tour propre”. Pour les [...]
This is a repost from the article published in LWN and mentioned earlier on this blog. Thanks to LWN for publishing it in the first place, and to all the people who proofread and commented on it! I hope this will serve as a more up-to-date introduction to Collections in XMMS2 (I should probably post [...]
To anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention, it is clear that the situation of the music industry has become largely surrealistic. Lately, settlements to avoid lawsuits represent a profitable business for the RIAA (the trade group representing the American recording industry). In essence, they could stop producing music and live purely [...]