Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Thursday 26 May 2005

DRM only punish honest customers

Boin Boing has an article about problems with legally acquired DRMed eBooks. The customer bought an eBook for $172 and when he installed a new version of Acrobat, he no longer can read it...

See also Espen log that has more information, including reply from the customer support of the vendor, given that the publisher did not even dare to reply.

Perhaps we should just Free Dimitry Sklyarov and say NO to DRM.

Thursday 12 May 2005

Modernity

We are in 2005 and applying for a SDK at Nikon requires to send a form by mail (yes, printed on dead tree). Since it is not a contract requiring signature, it is not justified.

Don't we live in a modern and computerized world ?

Sunday 1 May 2005

Lobbies win again

According to the Register, The Netherlands will probably levy a taxation on MP3 players at the price of EUR3.28 per GB of storage. Off course this goes into the powerfull music publishers' pocket. That would make a 20GB iPod 65.6 EUR more expensive (it costs around 300 EUR with taxes in that country).