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...used—how many CDs they can be burned to, how many different computers can play them, and so on. The major record labels all want DRM on songs sold online because they’re afraid (perhaps rightly so) that without technological measures protecting their intellectual property, vagrant Harvard students (and those at comparable institutions) will steal it and deprive them of revenue.They key word in the previous paragraph is “proprietary”: everyone has their own version of DRM. Many stores use a Microsoft standard, but Apple uses their own (called FairPlay), and that?...
...mountains of northwestern New Mexico--and made the fatal mistake of sexually assaulting one of Cuba's young women. Betty Jane and her colleagues on the local paper, the Cuba News thought this worthy of note, especially after a knot of vengeful Cubans had their way with the vagrant. Trouble followed publication. As Betty Jane put it: "The local fellows didn't like it at all that we printed their names...
...studio, stuffed with the latest mixers and synthesizers, he says: "This is my BMW." He shares his house in Madras with his wife, his three children and his mother, who still handles his finances; Rahman asks her for money whenever he is short. "I like to be a musafir [vagrant] without any baggage," he says. Unlike other artists steering themselves on a predetermined career path, Rahman is a strong believer in taking a backseat. "Life is a journey, but I don't hold the steering wheel," he says. "Somebody else is controlling it. I just handle each...
Kansas City emo outfit the Get Up Kids perform their intermittently mellow and driving Vagrant pop for maudlin girls and boys. Label-mates with the more famous and even more sentimental Dashboard Confessional, the Kids just released Gulit Show, their follow-up to 2002’s subdued On a Wire. Joining them are Recover and singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato. The title of Votolato’s most recent album, Suicide Medicine, should give you a good idea of what to expect from him. Tickets $16. All ages. 6 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne St., Boston...