If it's not open it's broken.
Even though my diatribe against carrier contracts remains one of the most popular all-time posts on my previous blog, so many Canadians still shy away from paying the full unsubsidized price for a handset, not realizing the freedom they’re giving up in doing so.
Music industry fluff and Hollywood dreck are one thing, but don’t you dare touch my mobile phone…
Because digital rights is such a hard sell to those who don’t immediately grasp it, let me show how C-32 would make me a criminal, three times over. Then you can decide for yourself if what I’m about to describe falls within reasonable use or not…
TorrentFreak laments that this is the beginning of the end for online file sharing. I’m not so sure; in fact, I’ll go a step further and submit that the blowback from #DEBill will extend far beyond the realm of first-tier digital activism.
Here are the first four consequences that come to mind…
Many of you will be spending the afternoon pouring through news of the new operating system for Apple’s locked-down iPhone. Clearly I’m no fan — of Apple products in general these days, if truth be told.
So how to not get drowned by the impending tsunami of iPhone-related news? Perhaps we could take a peek into an alternate universe for a minute or two and see a keynote that would actually be worthy of the attention that Apple so often gets…
“After careful consideration, we’ve come to the painful conclusion that we should discontinue support for the Linux version of Songbird.”
This news, posted to the official SongBird blog last Friday, came as a shocking slap in the face to someone who only recently freed his music library from the clutches of iTunes…
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