Archive for November 20th, 2007

November 20th, 2007

The Problem With DRM

Amazon’s MP3 store rips off your fair use rights - Boing Boing
The problem with DRM is that it tries to enforce a physical-world ruleset of scarcity on infinitely replicable data. One purchase, one copy, pretending to be physical goods. Which sucks, because data should be much more flexible than physical goods.
So then we get rid [...]

November 20th, 2007

You Call That Health Food?

You Call That Health Food? - Men’s Health
Take a moment and consider this logic: 1. Fat-free foods are healthy. 2. Skittles are fat-free. 3. Therefore, Skittles are healthy. Make sense? Of course not. But it’s exactly the type of reasoning that food manufacturers want you to use.
Right off the bat they have one that [...]