Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Oops, looks like some of the fancy new music CD protection schemes can be cracked with a magic marker or tape. I suppose we’ll now have to outlaw office supplies under the DMCA.

Napster dead in a box. I wasn’t too happy when Shawn Fanning was pulling down major VC cash to develop a system that gave artists nothing, but it’s still sad to see a firestarter burn out. I particularly like what Cory (at BoingBoing, my “new favorite that was everyone’s new favorite eons ago” favorite) had to say:

So I can't really feel too sad for poor old dead Napster. Death was the best it could hope for now. Dead, its name can remain synonymous with revolutions; had it lived, its name would have been synonymous with crap.