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Day January 21, 2005

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Sony admits their attempt to lock us in a box failed: DRM

Jan 21, ’05 8:32 AM

Sony’s non mp3 support in it’s portable audio devices was a mistake, they now admit. Yuri Kageyama:

Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management’s reluctance to introduce products like Apple’s iPod, mainly because the Sony had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.

But Sony’s divisions were finally beginning to work together and share a common agenda, Mr Kutaragi said at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo.

Well, duh. Most of these DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) schemes will fail. Slashdot discussion.

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DRM is not binary

Jan 21, ’05 12:01 AM

Tristan Louis takes a useful look at DRM (digital rights/restrictions management):

What I am trying to highlight is that while proponents and opponents of DRM solutions both see the world in black and white, they may want to start a dialogue and realize that there’s a lot of gray areas out there.

Via Doc Searls.

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Inauguration VR Scene

Jan 21, ’05 12:00 AM

Travis Fox & Pierre Kattar created a very useful Quicktime VR scene, taken just above President Bush overlooking the Mall. There’s also a protest VR scene. Some great inauguration photos here
The whole thing was a big waste of money, of course. Shutting down a city seems a terrible price to pay for politics (and lobbyists).

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