digital rights

The infamous Wikileaks is facing a major hurdle . Credit card companies and financial services of various kinds are refusing to forward payment to Wikileaks ! Wikileak has been forced to stop it's activities while it tries to resolve the problem . I for my part wonder about the legality of the...

Hello all, I am the equipment manager for a DJ service. I recently talked my boss into letting me build windows based systems for our DJ's to use instead of a prebuilt DJ console that would cost more than twice what my design would. One of the biggest concerns we have is the ease of one of our...

Understanding Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Abuse Addressing the issue of DMCA violations in forum postings and other online areas. Establishing a positive relationship between forum users and forum team members regarding this issue. Explaining the purpose and general rationale of...

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The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal : Matthew Inman, creator of webcomic The Oatmeal, tried to ignore the rampant online copying of his work—until he found that his entire output was mirrored on a user-generated content site called FunnyJunk. Microsoft gives the...

Google is preparing to launch a test version of a new digital music service that will enable users to upload their music libraries to the company's servers. "This is a personal storage service that doesn't require licenses anymore than Sony and iPod or a hard drive requires licenses...

As Windows users, Link Removed or not, we depend on proprietary software every day. It's a single company. Microsoft. Their only goal is to make money and we are at their mercy. It's almost like an addiction and they're the dealer. I started thinking about this recently when I read a study...

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Better read the EULA before you give away or sell an old version of software that you no longer use. According to a recent court ruling, if it is so stated in the EULA that the producer of a piece of software retains ownership and you are only licensed to use it, you can only remove the product...

Hey, Net Neutrality: Why Not Try Freedom? Campaign For Liberty; Hey, Net Neutrality: Why Not Try Freedom? (Please note that this is a political OP-ED, so it is going to be very one sided on the subject, but an interesting observation and discussion none-the-less) Net Neutrality is a proposal...

I am trying to burn music cd's from mp3's that were sent to me on DVD using my laptop and Windows 7. I burned the first 10 w/o problem. What I did since each DVD has about 500 mp3's on it was to create a bunch of folders and cut/paste about 15-20 mp3's until I have about 70 minutes...

Backstory: I have been using Win7 since 7000 beta and played with it and love it (I'd consider myself pretty PC-saavy). But I'm having a problem with homegroup sharing on two computers. I have a desktop running much like a server: having utorrent download (free and legal) torrents and...

Is there a reason to install PlayReady?

So the one big thing that really bugs the heck outa me with Win7, is that it labels me as some malicous program. How would a computer think I'm being evil you may ask? Well go ahead and try and save an image from the internet by right clicking on it, and attempting to save it to a different...

does vista somehow turn u in 4 downloading songs n movies?????? thru like limewire or nething...i heard a rumor about it...ne truth 2 it?????

Hey, perhaps it will sound stupid what I am going to ask now... :-). Is it true that in Vista if the OS sees a copied DVD on the HD, it will make the HD unaccessible? I have bought over the last years quite a few DVDs and am keeping them on my HD as a backup in case the originals get damaged...