Posts tagged “free culture”
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 [...]
Open Source Presentation
I recently took part in an open source presentation with Pirkka Aunola and some other people. Pirkka (blogs at Digikko) is going to give a presentation on how the digital landscape is changing the media and marketing world. Pirkka blogged about this and later on asked interested people in joining in and helping her out [...]
Rootkitty
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Welcome to Planet Sony
Dan Kaminsky did some detective work with the Sony rootkit. The rootkit calls home to Sony to let them know where the CDs have been listened to. These leave a trail on the DNS servers. Dan was able to narrow down the correct data and if the data is believable, this is pretty damn alerting. [...]
Consumers Digital Rights
ǃ?P2P is like stealing a CD from a shop!ǃ? ǃ?We have to protect artists who are being robbed by consumers on the Internetǃ?. Big music and film companies are continuously feeding us claims like this on television, on the street and in the newspapers – painting private consumers as pirates and criminal. The same companies [...]