Further to my iPod-bothering post about content freedom, read about Friday’s US Federal appeals court ruling against media industry requirements for built-in hardware anti-piracy technology and marvel at this rant today against the iPod’s DRM (Digital Rights Management) from Hilary Rosen, a woman who took the music industry dollar for years.
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Oddly enough, I was just having a conversation two days ago with a open source programmer (and fire dancer) about this. We were both astounded at how the media industry can treat its customers like criminals and get away with it.