Macrovision says DRM is “Okay”!Posted by Mike on Feb 19th, 2007
You remember Steve Job’s open letter about DRM?
Well, imagine my surprise when Macrovision, a company that’s made all it’s money preventing consumers from making copies of tapes they’ve legally aquired, has said it’s not a problem with DRM at all! In fact, we need DRM or no one would digitally distribute music or anything [...]
InnerGeek: Myspace Fantasy VIIIPosted by Migo on Feb 17th, 2007
That’s right, it needs to stop! Emo haircuts are ruining our video game heroes. I can’t count the times I’ve had to sit through a video game where the hero suffered from an overinflated sense of pre-pubescent angst-ridden psychodrama just hoping that his balls would drop at some point in the game so I could [...]
InnerGeek: A Valentine’s WarningPosted by Migo on Feb 12th, 2007
The comic is late, but I’ll make up for it by posting twice this week. Today’s comic deals with something I’ve always been worried about. What happens to Cupid when he gets older? Surely he just doesn’t switch up to adult diapers, give himself a shave, and go floating out into public beer gut and [...]
Final Fantasy: Reflections #1Posted by Shawn M. on Feb 9th, 2007
Calm down, fanboys, it’s not a new FF game that’s in the works. Instead, it’s a look back at the Final Fantasy games we’ve been treated to over the years, and my personal reflections on each of them. There’s been a lot of games, so I’ll try to keep things short. For [...]
An End to DRM?Posted by Mike on Feb 7th, 2007
Sure, Digital Rights Management, or, as some others might say, Digital Restrictions Management, is a system created so that music companies and the entertainment industry in general, can prevent consumers from gaining the ability to use content, licensed to them, freely.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has spoken out in opposition to DRM for quite some time, [...]