Read the Sony BMG EULA and get mad.
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Just when I thought I'd begun to experience outrage fatigue, John DeVore goes and sends me this link from the EFF.
"I want to hear something with horns," I say, finally.
"Cool," John DeVore replies.
"Cool," John DeVore replies.
I continue shuffling through the pile nearest me, and soon, I find what I'm looking for: In the Reins, a seven-song collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine.
"Have you heard this one?" I ask, handing the CD to John.
He takes the CD, questions and admires its quiet and nameless cover art, turns it on its side to read the spine, and: "Oh! Calexico. No, I haven't heard this."
Happy and satisfied, I announce: "Track three."
John cues the track. I move…
I was checking out Hack A Day, which listed an iPod remote control hack. When I pulled it up, it turned out to be a controller that works off of T + A's remote control buss. Pretty cool, if somewhat narrowly focused.
Memo to all of us smug Apple computadors: Sony doesn't discriminate. It turns out, Sony BMG is using SunnCom DRM to install kernal extensions on your machines. That's in addition to the F4i root kit infestation that PC users are complaining about.
I'd love to write about something else, but this story keeps going and going and going. Now we have reports that Sony's malware has opened consumers' (yes, customers, people who actually bought their CDs) computers to other malware.
Of course I found this survey on the effectiveness of aluminum foil hats at stopping governmental brainwave manipulation funny—the first five times I received it!
But keep the links coming, folks.
"Blog up, yet?" asks JA,
on his way out to get a sandwich.
on his way out to get a sandwich.
I respond without looking away from our Products of the Year feature:
"Nope."
Relieved, perhaps, JA replies:
"I live in constant fear."