I posted a suggestion to Heritage Minister James Moore the other day in response to him calling copyright reformers “radical extremists”. The name calling didn’t shock me at the time because I had heard similar rhetoric from a CEO of a major Canadian publishing house. But what I didn’t realize last week when I floated [...]
The copyright reform bill has been tabled. As expected the DRM provisions are baked in. It will be illegal to break all digital locks in all circumstance except one — cellular phones. Software to break encryption will be outlawed. And services/sites that facilitate infringement can be sued out of existence. I wonder if there is [...]
An ad for Globe2Go… “The Globe and Mail’s ePaper initative is finally here”… groan. $20 a month to subscribe. $10 a month for existing print subscribers. Yes you need to pay twice. No interactivity. No special UI. The print experience is reproduced on your ereader or smart phone. Which ereaders and which smartphones? It doesn’t [...]
OK Go is playing the Mod Club tonight. You may have caught their video “This Too Shall Pass” featuring The Rube Goldberg Machine set up by MIT students. It is huge. But unless you are a fan or a reader of Billboard, you might not know they left their record label last month. As leader [...]