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ProjectX 0.90.3.01
contains some improvements in teletext handling and subtitle demuxing,
has a slightly adapted GUI and fixes some bugs.
The EU is going to have a field day with this: Microsoft's corporate
VP of the Windows Digital Media Division openly admits that their
DRM licensing is meant
to ensure that small companies and hobbyists don't stand a chance,
and that there will never be an open source implementation.
DVD2One
2.0.3 is faster, automatically sets the UI language at startup,
can be run on Intel and PowerPC Macs and fixes a few bugs.
We RIAA just doesn't know where to stop: they've sued
another person who couldn't possibly have shared songs online.
And while we're on the subject, perhaps they ought to have a look
at this RollingStone
poll. If your customers don't think they get a fair deal, they're
more likely to look for alternative venues...
Libraries are waking up to DRM, and they
don't like it. If your job is making content available to anyone,
and we have DRM that ties a work to a specific hardware, that's
not going to work out with some major changes on current restriction
mechanisms.
Speaking of DRM, a German association of independent labels has
launched a campaign
for restriction free music. Time to buy some songs for them
to make it pay off, as the only way the majors are ever going to
change their stance is if they see the DRM free model works out.
Last but not least, here's an outlook at what major telcos and
cable companies want to shape the Internet into: An
island of private networks where you pay for everything you do.
You want to visit an independent newssite? 5 bucks please. You want
to shop at another online store than your ISP's preferred one? Another
5 bucks please. You want to browse to doom9.org? That's free but
we'll send your subscriber data to the MPAA...
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