Music
Philips moves to put 'poison' label on protected audio CDs
Netherlands giant Philips Electronics has lobbed a grenade into the audio copy protection arena by insisting that that CDs including anti- copying technology should bear what is effectively a plague warning. They should in Philips' view clearly inform users that they are copy- protected, and they shouldn't use the "Compact Disc" logo because they are not, in Philips' considered view, proper compact discs at all. [read more]
thanks to MetaFilter
Doc Searls gave a rave review for Amélie. I checked out the movie site and some reviews (it does sound like a must see) when one of the reviews mentioned the following which apparently appears in Amélie.
Born for Hard Luck
A portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with brilliant harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buck dances, and an authentic live medicine-show performance filmed at a North Carolina county fair in 1972. [read more]
The "portrait" is a 29 minute documentary film done in 1972. You can stream or download the movie. Those with inadequate bandwith can listen to RealAudio. |