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Posted on 06.01.07 by Tuffley @ 6:08 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Back in April, Apple and The EMI Labels reached an agreement that will see music from its labels (excluding, of course, The Beatles and Radiohead) being sold on the iTunes music store without encrypted copyright protection on its files. The new service is called iTunes Plus, and officially rolled out as part of this week's 7.2 update. While users will be able to purchase complete albums from EMI Artists without DRM for the same price iTunes currently charges (around $9.99), individual tracks without DRM will be sold as a premium item (for about $1.29 a track) Users will be given the option of paying the regular iTune per-track price for EMI-released tracks with the DRM, and (should they choose the Plus option) will also the bit rate of the purchased track. In addition, the per-track may be credited for purchase of the album (if the tracks have been purchased within the last 180 days) through the recently added Complete Your Album feature. Apple is also offering Plus users the chance to upgrade any existing Plus-eligible track/album purchases already in their collection to the DRM-Free ACC format for a fee. Categorized as: Rants
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Posted on 04.23.07 by Widge @ 6:40 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Wow, I had no idea I was undercutting hard working writers who don't give away their work for free. I'm also glad that Howard Hendrix thinks that my stuff is good enough to get paid for, and that I'm screwing up the world by giving it away online. Thanks, Howard! That would mean a lot coming from you, had I any idea who you were or why I should care. Before I counter-rant, for those who are interested, here's my webscabery in action: Something Else - ongoing microfictions. (Although if you only have time for one, may I humbly suggest this one or maybe this one) Dark Blue Monstropolis - ongoing sci-fi series If you like my stuff, you'll be pissing off Howard if you read my books, either for free, or proving him wrong by buying them on Amazon. So I say: piss him off and buy. Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point - my novel. Sorry, it's straight fiction. But don't hold that against me. Buy it on Amazon or read it for free. Magnificent Desolation - my short story collection. Dark fantasy and other weirdness. Buy it on Amazon or read it for free. Find more webscabs online here. Right. Now if you want to read my counter-rant, proceed. Otherwise, thanks for stopping by and enjoy my free webscab-enabled work. Huzzah. Categorized as: Rants
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Posted on 04.06.07 by Widge @ 5:43 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So Go give it a read. I'm not going to say that I don't agree with a lot of what the author, Ryan, has to say. But here's what I found interesting. I was going to take him to task over what Cory at Boing Boing quoted: But we don't believe having free, usable, uncrippled media is a feature -- it's a right. Categorized as: Music and Rants
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Posted on 03.19.07 by Tuffley @ 3:32 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  In a blaze of publicity, Marvel Comics announced the death of Steve Rogers (aka: Captain America). The parting shot made headlines across the globe, and came at just the right time for the cable news pundits--because you can always stop talking about a dead supermodel's baby daddy just long enough to talk about a dead fictional character. Yes, I'm being a bit cynical about this. After all, with everything else that's going on in the world--analyzing the political impact of Captain America's "death" seems like a terribly inappropriate thing for a responsible media outlet to do. But then again, who am I to say--considering the last time a Four Color Fury column showed up, Anderson Cooper was still the host of The Mole. But everything changes, I'm told. And besides, it's not as if Marvel hasn't done this before... Categorized as: Rants
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Posted on 11.06.06 by Widge @ 9:04 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Latest podcast is up over at Kevin Smith's Quick Stop Entertainment. Subjects covered include but are not limited to: MySpace, YouTube, Comedy Central, the MPAA, the RIAA, the IRS, Christopher Nolan, Borat, and laundry detergent. No, seriously. Categorized as: Rants
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