• Levy-yhtiöt tarjoavat kestitystä radioille

    “Levy-yhtiöt yrittävät kosiskella radion musiikkiohjelmista päättäviä mm. kalliilla konserttimatkoilla saadakseen mahdollisimman paljon soittoaikaa omille levyilleen. […]

    Levy-yhtiöt käyvät viikottain esittelemässä kanavien musiikkipäälliköille uusimpia julkaisujaan saadakseen ne soittolistoille. Yhdysvalloissa nousi kesällä kohu, kun kävi ilmi että yksi yhtiöistä lahjoi listojen kokoajia.

    Kulttuuriuutisten tekemä puhelinkierros kotimaisille musiikkipäälliköille paljasti, että Suomessakin heille on tarjolla muutakin kuin levy.”

    YLE24
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  • Yahoo 'helped jail China writer'

    “Internet giant Yahoo [is] accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for “divulging state secrets”. Reporters Without Borders said Yahoo’s Hong Kong arm helped China link Shi Tao’s e-mail account and computer to a message containing the information.”

    BBC

  • OpenOffice Goes LGPL

    “On 2 September 2005 Sun announced the retirement of the Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL). As a consequence, no future Sun open-source project will use the SISSL. Projects currently using the SISSL under a dual-license scheme, such as OpenOffice.org, are dropping the SISSL and thus simplifying their license scheme as soon as the development cycle allows. […]

    Effective 2 September 2005, all code in the [OpenOffice.org] 2.0 codeline will be licensed exclusively under the LGPL. All future versions of OpenOffice.org, beyond OpenOffice.org 2 Beta 2, will thus be released under the LGPL only. The change in licensing implicitly affects all languages and platforms in which OpenOffice.org is distributed.”

    OpenOffice.org via /.

  • A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music

    “There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise. […] In […] this brave new world of “authorized music services,” law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs (or at least, the world before record companies started crippling CDs with DRM, too). Unfortunately, in an effort to attract customers, these music services try to obscure the restrictions they impose on you with clever marketing.”

    EFF via Slyck

  • Ketkäs ne rikkovatkaan niitä tekijänoikeuksia?

    “Laulaja Eija Kantola voitti lopulta pitkään vatvotun varhaistuotantoaan koskeneen oikeusriidan VL-Musiikki Oy:ta vastaan. Korkein oikeus katsoi levy-yhtiön loukanneen Kantolan oikeuksia, kun se markkinoi Kantolan varhaista Samppanjaruusu-äänitettä laulajan uudella taiteilijanimellä.”

    Savon Sanomat

  • Krakkeri vieraili Jyväskylän yliopistolla

    “Päivittämätön Apache-palvelin joutui krakkerin kohteeksi sunnuntaina Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Tietomurto kohdistui taidetiedekeskus Artes Liberalesin palvelimeen sekä sen sähköiseen taidegalleriakokoelmaan.”

    MikroPC.net
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  • Flickr fans have Yahoo fear eased

    “A protest group was set up within the community after it was announced that that from sometime in 2006, users will need a Yahoo account to login. Many in the Flick Off group of more than 1,000 have threatened to quit their membership if this happens. It is not what they signed up to, they say. Yahoo bought Flickr in March.”

    BBC

    I came to know Flickr only after they had been acquired by Yahoo!, and thus have always steered as clear from it as I’ve could. Yahoo! has always had such crappy policies in UI design, towards its users and throughout its services that I’ve long since decided to stay as far away from anything Yahoo! related as possible.

  • Download Linspire for Free

    “We thought it would be fun […] to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days! This is actually a great way to highlight what it is that makes Linspire special and unique, and different from other Linux distributions. For the next few days, you can obtain a free digital copy of Linspire by following the instructions below. Hurry! This truly “free” Linspire offer ends September 6th, 2005!”

    Linspire via ZDNet