Rip, Mix, Burn

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 14 Juli 2006 0 komentar
The Economist on iTunes:
Because the music store is only compatible with the iPod, a customer who wants to abandon Apple's player in favour of something else must replace all the music he downloaded from the store. It is as though a person's entire record collection worked on only one brand of gramophone. Hence with each song a customer buys, he binds himself a little more tightly to the iPod. Apple offers its customers a 'Trojan horse', according to Mr Shope. Customers embrace its iconic device, and then, like the hapless Trojans, find they have fallen into the hands of the gift-givers.

This thesis is only supportable if you ignore the original feature of iTunes, it's ability to burn CDs. Long before the iTunes Music Store, Apple ran the Rip, Mix Burn ad campaign, saying 'it's your music - burn it on a Mac'. When they introduced the iTMS, they retained this feature, so you can burn Red Book, uncompressed, unencrypted CDs of your iTunes Store purchases.
This is in fact the only reason I buy music from iTMS - if you do, make sure you burn the CDs as backups. And don't buy the videos - you can't burn them to DVD.

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Rocketboom sputters?

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 05 Juli 2006 0 komentar
Amanda Congdon announces by video on her dormant blog that she is leaving Rocketboom, due to differences with her business partner, Andrew Baron. Both Rocketboom and "Amanda Congdon" popped into Technorati's top searches this morning. Now all the 'make money from videoblogging' spin will need a new poster girl.

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Burn this flag

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 30 Juni 2006 0 komentar

There has been a senatorial foofooraw about an anti-flag-burning amendment, ably punctured by many, including John Scalzi and Scott Adams. However, at the same time, the has been slipped into the Telecom bill.


The broadcast flag is a far more serious restriction on freedom of speech. It gives legacy broadcasters a veto over the design of future technology. What it most reminds me of is the Red Flag Act, when the entrenched Railway lobby inserted a clause requiring any self-propelled road vehicle to have a man walking 60 yards ahead of it, carrying a red flag to keep it under 4mph in the country and 2mph in town. There is a similar effort to treat the net as broken TV in the EU.


As Adams put it "The thing to remember about freedom is that it’s not given, it’s taken".





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More Net Neutrality Advocacy

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 25 Juni 2006 0 komentar
Joining me in talking about Net Neutrality in video, here's one from Tim Berners-Lee, and one from Rocketboom. There is a proposal for legislative language that defines Internet service in terms of agreed packet protocols, and forbids calling non-compliant networks Internet. I've signed it - please read it and sign it too.


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Michael Arrington - Core Values - Bloggercon IV

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 24 Juni 2006 0 komentar

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Net Symmetry

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David Weinberger interviewed me at Supernova talking about Net Neutrality, or rather Net Symmetry.

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Barcamp SF introductions

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 23 Juni 2006 0 komentar
Here's the recording of the Barcamp SF introductions. Broadcasts of some sessions tomorrow - if you're here with a Mac and a video camera or iSight or MacBook built-in one, come find me.

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