Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Well I’m sure by now you’ve probably heard about Amazon deleting certain books off of people’s Kindles without the permission of the Kindle owner:
Amazon.com shocked customers yesterday when it reached out to hundreds, if not thousands of Kindles and simply deleted texts that users had not only purchased, but had started to read. A literary coitus [...]

These guys disgust me. :roll:
The DVD Copy Control Association, the group that owns the copy-protection technology contained on DVDs, said a company called Kaleidescape is offering products that illegally make copies of DVDs. The company, which has won several recent consumer electronics awards, said it has worked closely with the DVD CCA for more than [...]

Apparently it still hasn’t dawned on them that lawsuits are not going to work. :roll:
The Recording Industry Association of America filed on Thursday another round of lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including students on 13 university campuses.
The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had [...]

I can’t say I’m pleased about this at all. :mad:
TiVo is ratcheting up DRM restrictions on its subscribers with a couple of updates that will be rolled out to the DVRs in upcoming weeks. One patch will cause TiVos to automatically delete pay-per-view content after a preset period of time. According to a TiVo attorney, [...]

Another great argument for switching to Linux. :roll:
It’ll be interesting to see if the recording industry is stupid enough to fall for this. I can’t see it being a good thing for them to hand such power over to Microsoft. It’s one thing to want to crack down on file sharing, etc. but it’s [...]