brian boyer

steve jobs, patron saint of all things shiny, white, and expensive, posted a very interesting read on apple’s site. he discusses the current and possible future states of electronic music sales, and why drm is a waste of time. i’d have liked it better if he actually addressed why drm is evil. but it’s a step in the right direction.

from the blog to end all blogs, boingboing!

for the uninitiated, sound opinions is a fantastic weekly radio program, billed as the world’s only rock and roll talk show. jim derogatis and greg kot are music critics at the chicago sun-times, and tribune, respectively.

on this saturday’s program they interviewed a fellow i’m a huge fan of, lawrence lessig. he’s a stanford law professor, copyright guru, and founder of a fantastic project determined to update copyright law for the information age, creative commons.

among other great stuff, they treat us with a montage of versions of the song “in the pines”, an explanation of how current copyright law stifles creativity, and my favorite quote “the fact is, it’s not that our kids are deeply immoral, it’s that the law renders their behavior illegal in a way that does not make sense in the 21st century.”

link to Sound Opinions Footnotes

link to podcast info.