Investigative blogger picking at secret “A-Hole” technology
February 22, 2006 on 1:21 pm | No CommentsCategories: law, copyright and drm
Tags: law
What a bunch of A-Holes entertainment industry execs are. Just to make this crystal clear, the A-Hole (analogue hole) refers to the ability of devices like TV capture cards, Minidisc players, DVD recorders and even video cameras to transform analogue audio/video into digital audio/video (for example, recording an analogue vinyl disc onto your computer in [...] (…)
“Guantánamo” movie actors interrogated at UK airport
February 21, 2006 on 11:51 pm | No CommentsCategories: TV & movies
Tags: TV & movies
This, and Walter Wolfgang’s Channel 4 programme on Friday confirmed (as if confirmation was needed) to me that the Terrorism Act is being brazenly abused - the UK is now, more than any time in its history, a police state. And that’s a hell of a history.
“Guantánamo” movie actors interrogated at UK airport:
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from [...] (…)
BBC massively ramps up available podcasts
February 20, 2006 on 1:20 am | No CommentsCategories: technology
Tags: technology
This is great news. I’ve already signed up for Mark Kermode’s film reviews, which have so far been excellent (and hilarious).
The Today Programme is usually quite good as well. It’s just the 8:10am interview, but unfortunately they tend to publish them in the middle of the day, so there’s no chance of getting the same [...] (…)
Author’s Guild Warns on Trademark Protection Bill
February 17, 2006 on 4:40 pm | No CommentsCategories: law, copyright and drm
Tags: law
There are some shocking consequences to this piece of legislation. Hopefully it will not pass. However what’s most interesting about the story is seeing the Author’s Guild on the other side of the IP law fence, after their recent fight with Google over Google Book Search.
Perhaps a change of mindset is upon us?
Though I wouldn’t [...] (…)
Podcasts for language learning
February 17, 2006 on 12:48 am | No CommentsCategories: general
Tags: general
Deutsche-Welle (a sort of German BBC World, I suppose) has started podcasting a lot of its content. This is great news on its own, but what’s even better for linguistic sado-masochists (i.e. German learners) like myself is that they’ve also published a podcast of the news, spoken slowly in German, and updated daily.
Only problem is [...] (…)
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