The Recording Industry Ass. of America are not nice people. They lobby to make it illegal to record digital radio — or to make a device capable of doing so. They are suing thousands of “pirates”– except some of those they accuse of piracy are grandmothers who have never owned a computer. The accuracy of […]
In the past few days, stories about Sony’s unique DRM technology have been circulating on the old Intarweb. Basically, when you insert some Sony or BMG music CD’s into your Windows machine, a window with a EULA pops up. As soon as you click “accept”, you get a rootkit from the good folks at […]
Messrs DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo have created an album by the name of Ku-Ino. One guy apparently is a DJ specializing in hip-hop; the other is a classical trumpeter. Together, they made 13 tracks of something resembling jazz with scratching. This odd chimera deserves to be listened to — both for the audacity of […]