Okay, I admit it. I broke down and went to see it this afternoon. I knew it would be mobbed this evening and all weekend, and I just didn’t want to wait. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just say that the changes (that I could detect, anyway) are few and fairly tolerable, [...]
Archive of entries posted on 4th May 2007
Speaking of the DMCA…
What is it with Bev Oda, the Canadian minister in charge of copyright? Does she really think that people are so stupid that they don’t know that she’s taking cash from the entertainment companies she’s supposed to be regulating, even after it has been trumpeted all over Canadian radio and TV? On the other hand, [...]
“The AACS Debacle”
Like many geeks, I’ve been watching the progress of what BoingBoing is calling “the AACS Debacle” with interest over the last couple days. For those of you not familiar with it, here’s the executive summary: some guy, apparently irritated that he wasn’t allowed to play the next-generation Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs on his Linux machine, dug [...]