By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 10, 2007
Saturday, 10 February 2007
- Bacon Strip Bandages ★
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There is no booboo that wouldn’t feel at least somewhat better with one of these.
(Thanks to Mrs. DF, Amy Gruber.)
- Regarding Jon Lech Johansen’s Opinions on FairPlay ★
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Ian Hobson notes that Jon Lech Johansen is far from an unbiased observer regarding Apple’s use of FairPlay DRM — his startup, DoubleTwist, is specifically building a business around the idea of allowing other companies to use FairPlay DRM without Apple’s authorization.
- Unofficial Star Wars Art ★
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Very cool paintings of Star Wars characters by artists at Blue Sky Studios; some more from Rockstar here. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin.)
- Jackass of the Week: Edgar Bronfman ★
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Bloomberg News:
Warner Music Group Corp., the world’s fourth-largest record firm, said a plea by Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs to let songs be sold on the Web without copy protection software lacks “logic or merit.”
Wrong and wrong.
Warner Music chief executive Edgar Bronfman said Jobs’s proposal that firms drop digital rights management coding on songs sold online would leave music vulnerable to piracy.
Because there is no music piracy right now.
He disputed Jobs’s claim that so-called DRM software prevents consumers from playing music purchased from rival services on different devices.
I’ll just quote Blech from 2lmc Spool:
I will give Bronfman five zillion dollars if he can show me either an iPod playing protected WMA, or a Zune playing protected AAC. (Note that I don’t actually have five zillion dollars. That’s OK, though. Bronfman doesn’t have either of those things.)
- Fake Jack Valenti Quote on CARS ★
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Totally made up, but yet rings totally true:
The recording industry’s Jack Valenti quickly followed suit, issuing his own statement to consumers of digital music.
“Hey, here’s an idea. Why don’t you imagine a world where you shut your cake-hole and buy this crap the way we tell you to, huh? Can you imagine that? Huh? Can you? You frickin’ better imagine it or I’m gonna hit you in the head with a frickin’ Zune.”