So the tech world got a friendly reminder today why DRM is bad and I’m passing it on to you. The story I’m referencing is here. First a quick note for our readers: What is DRM? DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is data that is added to a digital music file to prevent you from using it [...]

Here it is! Sorry for the YouTube quality. I can send you an iPod-compatible file upon request!

I don’t plan on posting much, if at all, this weekend. I’ll be busy doing research for my video project and other homework. But stay tuned, as I hope to put up a teaser trailer for that project in the next 24 hours. Edit: Trailer is up!!!

So I typically don’t talk very publicly about politics or otherwise enter into a discussion about such things: too many people have too many strong feelings about government and it often gets too emotional, which is not the way to have an interesting, intelligent debate. In that vein, I have paid as little attention as possible to [...]

So I live in Delaware. Small Wonder, 1st State, Diamond State, whatever. It’s all the same, boring, 2nd smallest state in the union. While living in said East-Coast locale, I’m trying to get a job in the Bay Area of San Francisco. This being on the opposite coast where there’s no guarantee the earth will [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about piracy in the digital age, its historical roots, and avenues for dealing with it in the future, and it’s all very distressing. It’s all background to help me develop a short documentary video project I’m working on for a seminar on modern-day notions of copyright. My [...]