Friday, November 24, 2006

Copyrights and Copywrongs

Silly Seth Godin is at it again -- trying to provide common sense to the uncommonly stupid.

A recent post in response to the MPAA's lawsuit against Load 'N Go Video (who seems to have gone out of their way to adhere to the rights of a media recording owner to make a copy for personal use) includes this zinger...

They would like to charge you every time you listen to a song or watch a movie (like a theatre or a concert). They abhor the fact that one DVD might get seen at a Boy Scout meeting or end up on your iPod. Scratch a disk? Buy another. Upgrade to a new machine? Buy another. The more they can cripple the distribution of their product, the better they do, they think.

Others realize that ideas that spread are worth more. That the souvenir value of a popular idea is very high.

>sniff-sniff<
I love you, Seth Godin.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Identity Theft

Anyone else disturbed by the fact the HD Radio logo is basically a rip-off of the XM Satellite Radio logo?
HD Radio logo XM Satellite Radio logo
It reminds me of those knock-off grocery brands your budget-conscious mother would try and foist off on you when you were a kid. You know what I'm talking about -- all your friends would have "Fruit Loops" and you'd end up getting something called "Fruity-Os."

Lest you think these are "unofficially" designs, or I'm creating controversy by creating my own logos in PhotoShop, click each logo and they'll take you to the media page on their respective sites where these logos are featured.

Obviously I've not been a fan of the idea of HD Radio from the beginning, but if the industry insists on producing this Edsel of a format, why not give it a unique brand instead of an also-ran?

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