Archive for November, 2005

DRM version 2?

Monday, November 21st, 2005

More new on the DRM side, Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow states on his blog he received an email fom a highly placed source withing Sony. Thi ssource leaked that recordlabels and artist are rethinking the concept of DRM. Artists are furious DRM might hurt their relationship with fans and their sales as […]

Sony, an accident waiting to happen

Monday, November 21st, 2005

In his recent blog entry David Berlind states that the whole SonyBMG saga was an accident waiting to happen. He blaims the big entertainment companies Apple and Microsoft for time lack of DRM interoperability. Of course he has a point but a standard which is supported and implemented by all is unthinkable. Let […]

Leaving Brasil (Votechtral)

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Leaving Brasil (Votechtral) is the first track in our Tracks category. Check out this beauty. It is a crossover between techno and deep-house with some latin influences. The bass drum has just enough power to make it bouncy without giving you a headache. It has a perfect composition the only […]

SonyBMG Saga: the conclusions

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

The recent saga around the SonyBMG DRM has proven 2 points:
1. DRM is still a widely unknown acronymn. How can you otherwise explain that the top of SonyBMG didn’t understand what the problem was when they installed software on a users computer with the capabilities of releasing virus-hell. It is clearly that they […]

What is DRM?

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

DRM (Digital Right Management) is the collection of methods used to control, monitor, describe and trade the copyrights held over a digital work. It is wider then simple copyright protection. For example it includes a way of billing when people access an online movie. Other examples of DRM include the protection on iTune MP3’s, […]

Welcome to copyleft-music.com

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Welcome to copyleft-music.com, your source for all the news about free op copyright music, unsigned artists. This blog will promote sites, dj’s and unsigned copyleft artists. As copyleft we consier all the music which is free of copyright, music created by an artist who is not registerd as an CISAC member. If you have a […]