Tag: Digital Media
An NBC news special from the dawn of the ’80s documented an exciting new trend — TVs that could display data like the weather, sports scores, news or even early video games. Data services like Ceefax and Viewtex, who provided this info, weren’t connected to the internet, but their services looked towards the future of technology […]
It’s a sad day for a weirdly specific brand of media pirate, as Spotify has plugged a loophole that allowed tracks to be illegally downloaded from the streaming music service using Google Chrome. With a non-sanctioned Chrome extension called Downloadify, users could exploit a feature of Spotify’s web player that allowed premium users to save […]
What if physical objects were subjected to the same arbitrary usage limits that certain distributors have forced upon perfectly legal, paid-for digital media? That’s the question posed by the DRM Chair (that’s digital rights management to you), a piece of furniture that falls apart in majestic fashion after its internal counter has detected eight uses. […]
