Posts tagged “copyright”
Mobile Monday Helsinki
There’s a bunch of stuff you can’t do when you’re living outside Helsinki. Luckily this will change soon as I’ve had to pass way too many events just because it’s a drag driving/catching a train down to Helsinki for one short event. I’m definitely looking forward to Mobile Monday Helsinki on March 6th in Stockholm [...]
Week round-up
Man, this week has flown past me. I’ve had so much stuff to do it’s hard to imagine. I just got back from work and it’s 7pm. I’ve got some good news that have made me work a bit harder than normal. Our paper that we did for Journal of Interactive Advertising was conditionally accepted [...]
Teosto raising prices
Teosto (the Finnish RIAA) has independently decided to raise prices for restaurants playing music to their customers. The raise is pretty significant as for a restaurant for 800 customers open 5 days a week the price for to pay for Teosto rises from 4000Ç«® a year to 40 000Ç«® a year (HS). A 10-fold increase [...]
DRM and e-Books
Torill Mortensen, a Norwegian professor at Volda College, has a good entry on how she tried to use an e-book in the way books are really used. The e-book was fitted with DRM technology to prevent it from being copied. However when you try to use the file in the way you would use normal [...]
Could I report Sony BMG?
Apologies to my foreign readers, but this is a commercial from another site and I decided to show that since Sony is illegally using code that isn’t theirs – could I report Sony BMG? (the plot in short: it’s against pirated software, but the slogan on the left in the beginning says: Did you forget [...]