Lawrence Lessig's free culture presentation
Nat Friedman (co-founder of Ximian) is surprised that many people have not yet watched Lawrence Lessig's great free culture presentation. He calls it the "most brilliant and important presentation I...
View ArticleSony XCP Rootkit Saga Continues
I didn't follow this disaster too closely, but here's a short (most probably incomplete) roundup of what happened so far:The Sony DRM installs a rootkit,people use the rootkit to make game cheats safe...
View ArticleUnintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA
The EFF has published a paper called "Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA". It contains a huge list of things which went wrong since the DMCA was introduced.The conclusion: Years of...
View ArticleNouveau - Free Software 3D acceleration for NVIDIA cards is making progress
Nice... the Nouveau project, which aims at creating Free Software drivers with accelerated 3D graphics for NVIDIA cards, is making some progress...I'm looking forward to the day when I can replace "nv"...
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The TrekStor eBook Reader 3.0 (EBR30-a), review and dissection
There a many, many, e-book reader devices available these days, and they're quickly becoming pretty affordable. The currently cheapest device in Germany (that I know of) is the TrekStor eBook Reader...
View ArticleDownloading non-DRM Amazon MP3s on Linux using clamz
I recently wanted to buy some MP3 files from Amazon (a whole album in my case, but you can also just buy single MP3 files if you want). Digital music downloads from Amazon are often much cheaper than...
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