FreeNewMexican: "U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver."
11:01:13 AM
ArsTechnica: "More recently we've learned that the entertainment industry is embracing a content protection scheme that will effectively give them control over whether or not you can play high-definition optical discs on your computer.
I've spent part of my tenure here at Ars trying to warn people about the encroaching affront to our culture being brought about at the behest of the entertainment industry. It has consistently been my position that technologies like 'Digital Rights Management' are less about preventing piracy, and more about finding new ways to nickel-and-dime customers. Through DRM and 'contracts' for content, fair use rights are being eroded.
Of course, the industry is trying to accomplish its objective by publicly lamenting piracy."
The real scandal is not piracy but the outrageous price-setting for most discs.
Anyway, making your own music is much more fun that consuming the overpriced products of the entertainment industry.
10:54:16 AM
