The Free Software Foundation has an ongoing campaign against Digital Rights Management. They promote their cause over at defectivebydesign.org and I think it’s generally a good site to learn about DRM and how it is restricting digital freedoms. Recently, the group held a protest at the Boston Public Library where they demanded that [...]
Ars Technica reports that there is now more digital information in existence than there is storage capacity on earth.
They say that this number reached 281 billion gigabytes (281 exabytes) in 2007, which adds up to about 45GB of digital information for each person on earth. For the first time ever, the total volume of digital [...]
Content Management Systems are a hot tool in libraries right now. At our place alone, we’re using Drupal for our main website, WordPress as a basic CMS for multiple sites, and we are helping one of our member libraries build a new site with Joomla. Libraries are becoming interested in making their websites [...]
BoingBoing is reporting that Random House Audio is now allowing its audiobooks to be sold without DRM. Why are they doing this, you ask?
Random House notes that they’ve been running a DRM-free audiobook program with eMusic for months, and that none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions; [...]
The Southeast Regional Library System sponsored a Collection Development Symposium in Columbus yesterday. I was asked to speak on two topics that are definitely influencing digital collections in libraries.
Once again, I gave my talk on Digital Rights Management. DRM is showing up in lots of digital content and has its pros and [...]
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