You can't put toothpaste back in the tube

This post is an off shoot to the "Copyright and "The Man"" thread and concerns the issue of the future copy protection and digital rights management schemes that the music and movie industries along with hardware manufacturers and spineless lawmakers will impose on the (mostly) innocent public.

Black and Red Swirls

Black and Red Swirls

Smog's <i>A River Ain't Too Much To Love</i> rose <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/091905imnew/">again</a&gt; and <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/102205hoping/">again</a&gt; in the earliest days of this blog. It reminded me of <i>Nebraska</i> and it brought me back to San Francisco, and I am a rock bottom riser and I owe it all to you.

Everybody Loses

Everybody Loses

Matsushita and Toshiba call off talks about Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Let the public decide, they say. My guess? People will say, "A pox on both your houses" rather than gamble on choosing wrong. <I>Again.</I> Don't these bozos ever learn?

Free the Quarks!

Free the Quarks!

RHIC creates mini-sized versions of the Big Bang. The results are perfectly surprising. Turns out, J. B. S. Haldane was right: The universe is not just stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we <I>can</I> imagine.

Butterfingers

Butterfingers

Some days just can't hold onto their hours. This day &#151; Wednesday &#151; has butterfingers. It feels as though only seconds ticked since I phoned Jon Iverson this morning. In fact, an entire day has gone by. People are walking out the door, saying "bye," without looking back. Meanwhile, I'd like to start from the beginning.

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