Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat - New York Times

I think this NYT Opinion piece really sums up the correct view of DRM on music. You're only hurting your business if you keep people from spreading the music. The more people can listen to artists' work the more likely they'll buy it and more importantly... tell their friends. Don't miss the discussions of this article over on Slashdot and Digg.

The End Of Copyright

I like this story!

From Digg:
"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's inevitable."

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Kintiko.net

I finally broke down and got my own web host. I got a free domain in the deal, so I'm proud to give you kintiko.net for all your small web project needs. I've got lots of space and fun server side scripting options. If anyone needs a web page made for them, pass along my name. If I have the time, I'm only asking to put a few Google AdSense ads on the pages.



I think that is a pretty good bargain.

Marc Cuban: Print Piracy Solution

Music piracy isn't as bad as print piracy on the web, according to Marc Cuban. His solution to the print piracy problem... a new business model.

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TViX: Hard Drive Multimedia Player

This is the US distributor for a nifty little device that can play your pictures, music, and movie files on your TV. It accepts any IDE HDD, and connects via USB2 (Firewire version available too). Plays most formats Divx, Xvid, Mp3, Ogg, and even ripped DVDs in ISO format.

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Livio De Marchi: Sculpture in Wood

Some pictures of this artist's works made the rounds at work. This stuff is just amazing. Now I need to find the guy that paints those neat street paintings.



From Digg:



Livio De Marchi's Wooden sculptures and artworks, alot of very intresting ones come in the floating versions of cars such as the Mercedes 300 SL, Ferrari F 50, Jaguar 1937, and even the infamous.... Volkswagen Beetle (for shame Livio!)



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How Bob Iger Saved Network TV

Mark Cuban's take on how Bob Iger, by putting ABC shows on iTunes, has saved network TV.

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