Entries from June 2009

Monday, June 29th, 2009

iTunes hack warning!

My iTunes account was hacked on Friday, I didn’t find out until Sunday night though because that was when I tried to log in to my account after it had happened. Watch out for these signs (Apple support didn’t even consider that I had been hacked when I contacted them): The hackers changed my account [...]

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Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Server-based DRM solutions are hostile to consumers

I have a long history with DRM (Digital Rights Management): I worked on the Windows Media 7 Encoder team; I worked at two different internet video startups; and as the owner of record label, I experimented with some of the very first paid digital download solutions (all long lost to internet history at this point). [...]

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