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{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

Time for leftists to fix a longstanding misattribution

Around this time of year or around Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, people cite King’s speeches. Most don’t cite “Beyond Vietnam” which sharply and rightly criticizes American foreign policy including calling the US “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today”. As Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon point out, this speech [...]

2009 01 19 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Politicos Comments Off

iTunes losing DRM is exception to the rule at Apple

Apple says they’ll drop the DRM on all iTunes tracks. Other music distributors (some which sell the same tracks as iTunes) have already done this. Dropping DRM on iTunes tracks would be less onerous than the current arrangement where some iTunes tracks still have DRM. But how do DRM-free iTunes tracks compare [...]

2009 01 11 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Free Software Comments Off