(entry last updated: 2002-06-23 22:12:20)

So, the big news today seems to be Palladium - Microsoft’s answer to DRM for the masses - of course, you need a new computer, new peripherals and a new OS - open source? Hah!

Oh, and NPR is rethinking their deep linking position.

Update: Moby coins/describes the Pearl Jam Effect - lower CD sales for musicians with technically savvy fans?

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• Wired has a discussion of a band called Fischerspooner, which has managed to exploit the Internet and webcasting to market themselves. It will be interesting to see how they respond to the continuing shutdown of webcasters.

• Wired has some letters to the editor in response to their article on the NPR deep linking controversy. Note that NPR has posted a response suggesting that they are rethinking the policy - Slashdot discusses and Cory Doctorow is unconvinced.

• And here it comes - Newsweek has an article on Palladium (gone: see cryptome for the text), Microsoft’s DRM scheme (or is it Hollings’?) - the Slashdot discussion is a little heated….

• A followup to yesterday’s article on net control, there’s a Slashdot discussion

• Iliad responds to webcasting royalties.

• Moby describes something new - the Pearl Jam Effect; Slashdot discusses