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Kevin Martin has had it pretty rough these last few weeks. The guy can’t catch a break — from being painted as a bully and a bad manager by a House committee report to being dressed down by the Commerce Secretary and called out as crooked by The Wall Street Journal. If I were him, I’d bury myself in tasks related to my imminent job search.
Microsoft has angered Chinese computer users with its latest antipiracy move. On Tuesday, during its Global Anti-Piracy Day, Microsoft turned Windows Genuine Advantage loose on the Chinese people. Other users worldwide are familiar with WGA, which famously labeled legitimate users as pirates and disabled some features of their operating systems.
YouTube has pulled some videos posted by the McCain campaign after receiving complaints from news outlets that they were violating copyright. Here’s a case in which YouTube has fallen victim to its own fear — the fear of being sued by media companies as large as itself — and the Republican presidential candidate has fallen victim to his own votes.
It looks like recording labels are willing to give music away for free if it means not having to deal with iTunes — the No. 1 online music vendor and the No. 2 nemesis of music execs, due to its rigid pricing. While iTunes is clean and easy to use, it’s also pretty sterile. If you know what you want, you’ll probably find it there, and you can buy it very easily.
I certainly don’t want to give the impression that I’m too old-school for this new-media, all-digital, high-definition world. Like every other red-blooded American male, I loves me some special effects; the more explosions, computer-generated graphics and visual fireworks the better, as long as they don’t completely obliterate character and story. But I’m talking about my summer movie viewing habits.