Archives for November 2009

DRM’s Role in the Demise of Joost

I’ve written before about Joost, and while I didn’t predict their complete failure, I did predict one thing that some people seem to have missed: that their irrational faith in DRM was not a good sign. That faith led them to go down the proprietary client download route, and not (as Hulu and YouTube did) [...]

27 November 2009 | Copyfighting | 3 Comments

Putting the ‘P’ Back Into VPN

It’s now clear that the government wants to control people’s use of the Internet, ostensibly on behalf of the media industry, but more likely in the longer term because (to paraphrase William Burroughs) control always needs more control. For a while now I’ve been thinking whether it might be time to tunnel my Internet traffic [...]

22 November 2009 | Living, Technology | 5 Comments

 

 

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