Spotify - liberation or DRM-hell?
Spotify, seen by many as the music service Napster should’ve been and thus would have saved us from the last 10 years of evil piracy, has a darker side to it as well. To understand, let’s do some history: First, one of the suggestions from the media industry on how to "solve the piracy problem" (that still hasn’t been shown to exist, worth noting) has been to create a "broadband tax".
Business · English · Itunes · Media · Mobile · Pirateparty · Spotify
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While I’m sure I’m going to cross post some of the things I write about, the more mobile related posts will appear at Sony Ericsson blogs instead of here. I’ve kicked off with a post on It’s not about smartphones - on how some of the new devices on the market differ in their actual usage from what we’ve seen before and what that might mean.
Business · English · Internet · Mobile
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You’re not charging me - I choose to pay
I’m currently paying [a group of people](http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english "a group of people") to further a political agenda I find important I’m currently paying [someone](http://www.henrik-alexandersson.se/ "someone") to continue digging into the facts behind important political decisions I’m currently paying [the initiator of a cause](http://wattsupwiththat.com/ "the initiator of a cause") to continue exposing myths that otherwise might be used as support in creating an authoritarian super-state or economic system … by choice It’s likely that I would be doing the same with other things as well, music and various forms of entertainment comes to mind, if opportunity arose.
Business · Climatechange · English · Fascism · Globalwarming · P2p · Pirateparty · Uncategorized
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