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I'm Tal Atlas.I'm currently working at OMGPOP and built Pictureclub. I got my ME and BS at Colorado School of Mines. I'm a ruby programmer and general web developer. This is a collection of random things I find intresting from across the web.

All posts tagged DRM.

Fuck DRM

A perfect example of why DRM is terrible. I WANT to purchase Dr. Horrible’s sing along blog to support this type of production in the future. However I hate iTunes as a movie player and even if I didn’t I’d still want to be able to play them on any player I so chose. Namely an aTV competitor.

If you want to get them still here’s the torrent.

I think free has been very important for a long time… acknowledge what the marketplace is already showing us: free exists whether you want to acknowledge it or not. Let’s acknowledge that, use it and do something with it.
— Jim Guerinot, talent manager whose clients include Nine Inch Nails (via NYT)

EMI’s senior VP Lauren Berkowitz reports that sales of the label’s digital music sales have seen a spike in sales after going DRM-free through iTunes a few weeks ago. If EMI can maintain that increase in sales, the other major labels may follow sooner than later.

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