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  • Is Buying Second-Hand Software Legal?

    May 3, 2013

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    This is by no means a legal document and don't think that this substitutes for the opinions of an officer of the court. Let me be clear - I'm going to present to you the research that I've done and what it means to me. It is NOT legal advice. Now that is out of the way, lets get to the heart of the matter on whether buying second-hand software legal or illegal.
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  • Convenience Before Freedom: How Tech Companies Are Slowly Trapping You [Opinion]

    February 15, 2013

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    Computers were once under our control. We could run any software we wanted on them, and the companies that manufactured the computer had no say. Today, computers are increasingly being locked down. Apple and Microsoft rule over their app stores with an iron fist, deciding what we can and can’t do with our devices. We live in a world where changing an iPad’s default web browser or email app is a crime.
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  • Who Owns That MP3? Rights & Ownership In The Digital Era

    September 12, 2012

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    This is pretty new ground - what happens to your legally purchased MP3 collection when you die? When one of the least trustworthy British newspapers around reported that Bruce Willis was going to sue Apple because he couldn’t bequeth his digital music collection, the Internet at large jumped at the chance to spew their vitriolic Apple hate. The story was completely false of course - but it raised an important question worth considering - who does own that mp3?
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  • 6 Places To Buy DRM-Free Games [MUO Gaming]

    August 23, 2012

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    Since I’ve decided not to buy games from Steam, I need to find other sources. Many of them are actually worse than Steam itself. Ubisoft’s store is baffling and full of annoying DRM. Electronic Art’s Origin service is more functional and less distracting, but worse than Steam overall. And Gamestop has done an excellent job of ruining the Impulse service since it bought it from Stardock. What’s a gamer to do?
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  • Tor Books To Be Released DRM-Free [Updates]

    April 26, 2012

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    Digital Rights Management continues to plague many ebooks, making transfer between devices difficult. If you enjoy the sci-fi and fantasy genres, however, you’re in for a treat. Tor, one of the genre’s most prolific publishers, is going DRM-free. The books will be available from the same retailers that currently sell Tor ebooks, but the company [...]
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  • Ubisoft DRM Monitors Hardware, Locks After Three Activations [News]

    January 18, 2012

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    There are few companies easier to bash than Ubisoft when it comes to copy protection. The company has long used an activation scheme on most of its games that ties activation to your computer’s hardware configuration. This means that when you change your hardware, you have to re-activate your Ubisoft games before they’ll run. Such a process isn’t entirely unheard of in software.
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  • Behind SOPA : What It Means For Business & Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC]

    December 15, 2011

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    Ever since the Internet began, online piracy has been a big problem with the two biggest casualties being the music industry (RIAA) and the movie industry (MPAA). The Internet made it extremely easy to download whatever people wanted and the music & movie industries responded with copy protection measures, including the infamous and universally hated Digital Rights Management (DRM).
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  • 5 Apps To Get More Out Of Your NEW Mac

    November 22, 2008

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    Sometime last year, you bought yourself an iPhone and then realised that a better user experience is indeed possible! So sometime this year, you took the next logical step and upgraded your PC to a Mac – perhaps a Mac Mini to start out small, or a laptop, or even a sexy 20″ iMac. Now [...]
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  • Top Indie Music Websites (100% Legal, DRM-free Downloads)

    June 11, 2007

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    What is indie music? Basically, indie music (from independent) refers to the music that is independent from the commercial music industry and usually associated with autonomous, label-free artists/bands. Below you’ll find some of coolest indie music repositories on the web. (1) iJigg iJigg is a community where independent artists post their tracks for iJigg users [...]
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