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It covers a wide range of topics: the 4.5k€ of donations received so far, moving distro infrastructure from GitHub to GitLab, progress on LoginKit (which replaces systemd's logind), fraud accusations, logo discussions, and few more important points.

Was someone trying to sneak that one through in the middle of a dull-news sandwich?

The problem is that all money donated to Devuan doesn't go directly into Devuan, but into a rather dubious organization, with no public oversight and no accountability.
Here is a link to the org and their pre-Devuan Linux distro:
http://www.dynebolic.org/
Take a look around, and notice how a "donate" button never is far way from any project or web page.

The foundation has a chairman called Denis Roio, AKA "Jaromil", and according to themselves, the foundation "helps them pay taxes", in other words, they pay themselves from the org whatever they like.

There is a certain smell of "scam" around the Devuan project, not so much its contributors as a whole, but about the small group of shady figures centered around the "dyne org".

If you are looking to do A/V, you might consider the dyne:bolic distribution which is tailored for this use.

...but well this route was taken already several years ago by politically motivated developers

see dynebolic.org

Sounds like you have a better solution going, but I still wanted to turn others in your situation who *do* wanna run Windows on to btwincap -- the card is probably using a Brooktree chip.

This driver is usually much better than the included buggy/glitchy ones.

Dynebolic is a kick ass GNU/Linux distro for video capture and editing. It can also cluster just by running the liveCD on multiple systems.

you can try dyne:bolic is a quick snap to boot from CD or USB or copying a dir over samba, plus it comes with lots of apps pre-installed, less than 700MB of occupation

The dynebolic livecd bittorrent listed on that page took me 15 minutes to download. I wouldn't go to the trouble of setting up a system to try it (although the cinelerra package is available from MatthiasSaou's FreshRPMS repository)

Have you seen Dynebolic? Nice work if you ask me, just take a look. All you have to do is burn the CD and reboot. Hope you like it http://dynebolic.org/

That would mean admiting that it wasn't an UbuntuTM idea in the first place though, no, you can expect those and AGNULA to die horrible deaths when Ubuntu makes them both go away.

http://www.dynebolic.org/
http://www.agnula.info/

And for everything else, there's the Dyne:bolic distro. It's not slick or anything, but has lots of powerful multi-media tools that you can use without wasting resources on drop shadows and anti-aliased text. It's designed to run on an Xbox (64 MB RAM, etc.).

Dynebolic has offered tools (as in form of Live CD) for people to do that for ages now. Free public voice! That's the message of Dynebolic. It's really cool if you think about it. You boot the CD and you can broadcast your message within a few minutes!

Will this do what you want? Particularly Rose Garden? http://www.dynebolic.org/

Everythings changing,get over yourself in your secure illusion.Evolve or calcify.
Licensing is evolving for this.
Cultures are evolving for this. Media activists like http://www.dynebolic.org/
When middlemen/species aren't necessary they disappear.History has shown this again and again.
The bad dinosaur/industry has failed to evolve to meet the worlds demands.
When you are unable to sustain a profit,shareholders let go and don't return.
when no one buys your lemonade,you pack up the stand and quit.
people make their own lemonade.
people share their lemonade and it helps to sell cookies
could I make it simpler for you?
free as in lemonade now eat your dinosaur cookie and evolve.

You're looking at Knoppix and talking about the speed like it's surprising. Knoppix's specialty is that it includes everything but the kitchen sink. Other distros specialize in speed (or small size, which equates to most of the same thing). If I recall, Wolvix http://wolvix.org/node/25 is 128mb (or is it 256?) to fit on a USB. I've tried Wolvix and it's pretty quick. Also tried Dyne:Bolic http://www.dynebolic.org/ and it performs fairly quick considering it's size!

You know what all of the above distros have in common? They don't use KDE !!! Stay away from an 800 pound gorilla for a desktop on a live CD and you'll see load times halve right there!

PS: another tip: In a live CD, try to ascertain how much RAM it found on your system and whether it knows where your swap partitions are. Some live CDs miss out here, or need a little manual help.

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Re:From TFA...(Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday

fSck off and die,
Why so hostile?
the only reason anyone hacks an xbox is so they can play games they didn't buy

Right, nobody uses:
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page FreeBSD,Linux and Darwin.
http://www.dynebolic.org/ Multimedia Studio XBOX Linux Live CD
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A464 28-2005Jan29.html XBOX Media Center
http://www.xboxstation.com/modules.php?name=News&f ile=article&sid=22 SoftMod
http://xport.xbox-scene.com/ Emulation of Old Systems that we OWN

Maybe all these people are just wasting their time so losers can pirate games, but then again, if you look closely you will find more than a few Developers like the Idea of a $150.00 PC with TV out and Net Access.

I know I owe them my thanks, I'm purchasing an old black box right after the next price drop around 2006 (PS3 Launch). I probably won't even pick up 1 game. I just need a media extension in another room.
Silly Trolls.

I noticed something long ago...Amiga fanatics have mostly moved to Linux...why?

The Amiga was kept alive by the fans...and the fans are what keeps Linux (any GPLed software) alive at its heart...

The only thing that the PC is missing as far as the hardware goes is in the architecture...the Amiga had specilaized "co-processors" for everything (Video, Audio, I/O, etc)...this made it seem a lot faster than it really was...the PC is moving in the opposite direction (everything is offloaded to the main CPU)...

If you don't belive that Linux is where the Amiga fans have gone, take a look at Dyne:bolic...it follows many of the same ideas that the Amiga was founded upon....

I see your point though about the ease of configuring multimedia applications. Linux is a highly capable system for multimedia work. Almost anything you want to do with it is within easy reach of a skilled developer. That is what makes it so attractive for companies like ILM, Dreamworks, etc. However, most of it is not easy at all for the average user. There are some good attempts at dumbing down the multimedia interfaces to WMP's level, like kaffeine and totem, but I don't know if either of those does what you are describing.

It's unfortunate that multimedia-focused Linux distributions haven't received more support or publicity. One of those might suit your style better. Dynebolic is one of my favorite Live CDs.

You might want to try out http://www.dynebolic.org/. From the Features page, some of the included software:

"Mp4Live, lets you stream mpeg4 audio and video on darwin server | FreeJ, to perform on video livesets as a freejay | MuSE, to mix and stream your voice and sound files live on the net HasciiCam, to have a cool (h)ascii webcam, also on low bandwidth | TerminatorX, GDam, SoundTracker and PD, to perform with live audio | Kino, Cinelerra and LiVES, to edit video and publish clips | Audacity and ReZound, to edit audio and add effects on it"

What could be safer in a public cafe
than to drop in a dyne:bolic cd put in a keychain drive and boot up? No logger on that cd.
Its full of software aimed at promoting freedom through broadcast. http://www.dynebolic.org/ for details.
As for spies,keep your friends close,your enemies closer and a sap in your back pocket just in case.....

Can I boot Dyne:Bolic off it?

Try this one.. It's also good !

While knoppix each day has less and less apps, this one is getting more and more. And the machines which typically hang with knoppix (or knoppix based), even using all the "no" options, dynebolic loads happily. Not to mention 64mb ram machines, thankfully window maker based desktop for us in poor countries where these kind of machines abund.

I might

Even dynebolic live-CD didn't work.

I just want to write tunes - and if ever money comes in get a keyboard.
but at the mo I can't afford even £49.99 :(

I can't speak for knoppix, but I had a live distro called Dynebolic which could write to my win ME machine without a hitch. I haven't tried it on an xp or win2k machine however.

One meant for overal media production is Dyne:Bolic. Also see http://www.dyne.org

This is about the fifth +5 insightful, funny troll post about what a waste video blogging is.

No bandwith is wasted when someone visits a site and downloads a video. They want to see it. Tons of bandwith is wasted every day by advertisers who movies into 80% of their visitor's browsers. Requested video is not a waste. Forced video is. Get the difference?

The real story is that it is now easy to make movies on Linux. Angula has got what you want. They in turn point to dynebolic and Chainsaw. Don't take my word for it, go get an iso or a live CD and see it for yourself.

The fact of the matter is that NTFS 5 is the one file system that it appears no one can reliably write to without creating problems, except windows. Most file utils want you to boot to DOS, Knoppix boots you to Linux, and if you're lucky, you can read, but not write.

You should use captive-ntfs on Knoppix, or better yet:

1. Knoppix STD -- Security Tools Sistribution, a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Boot to the CD and you have Knoppix-STD. That would include a customized linux kernel (2.4.21 with ntfs rw, openmosix, and superfreeswan patches), Fluxbox windows manager, incredible hardware detection and hundreds of applications. Boot without the CD and you return to your original operating system. Aside from borrowing power, peripherals and some RAM, Knoppix-STD doesn't touch the host computer.
2. Local Area Security Linux -- a Live CD distribution with a small footprint. Containing over 200 information security and administration related tools. As well as a full desktop environment and office productivity applications. With such a small footprint L.A.S. Linux can be optionally loaded and run from physical RAM (assuming there is 256MB or more). We currently have 2 different versions of L.A.S. to fit two specific size requirements.
3. dyne:bolic -- a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more. It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console -- and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters.
4. F.I.R.E. -- Forensic and Incident Response Environment Bootable CD, a.k.a. DMZS-Biatchux, a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment.

I hope it helps.

For any kind of Linux-related media recording whatsoever, you should definitely check out dyne:bolic, i.e. a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software.

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more.

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console--and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

It is unquestionably invaluable to explore if you are not sure which software do you need to install and use on your own GNU/Linux system (e.g. Debian or Gentoo). I hope this helps.

Another similar distro is Feather Linux. And for the google-challenged, here are the links to damn small linux and dynebolic: DSL, dynebolic.

I take it you like dyne:bolic?

I take it you like dyne:bolic?

I take it you like dyne:bolic?

I take it you like dyne:bolic?

I take it you like dyne:bolic?

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:

"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"

"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."

"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."

Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.

An interview about art and usability of free software and not a single word about dyne:bolic? I am very disappointed.

Well there are a lot of different types of DJs.

For instance, I'm a music producer that sometimes fills in at an Internet Radio station. My needs mostly center around beat and music creation. For that purpose, the DM2 and its accompanying postproduction suite, Mixman Studio Pro, are pretty good. Throw in there ZeroX's TrackCreator and a good MIDI synth program like ProTools or Creative Keytar and I've got everything I need to do live music mixing and remixing.

Now how much your brother might like Virtual DJ depends on what he wants to do with himself... Virtual DJ is good for aspiring radio jockeys, but not really good for anything else. And there's software like it in dyne:Bolic for free (though I highly recommend the suggested $10 donation)... as well as video djing, video, audio, 2D, and 3D editing suites, internet broadcast software, and a smattering of other free as in beer tools... and there's no install.

If I had to recommend an approach to help a budding DJ, get him the DM2 and see how he likes it before you invest in the rest of the tools (though if he does like it, the Mixman Studio Pro is a very nice complement) Go ahead and download/burn dyne:Bolic at the same time, so if he does get some

The TrackCreator will come in handy when your brother decides that the precanned beats in the DM2 aren't enough and wants to add more samples to it. At this point you might also consider a few samples libraries... either from mixman, already formatted for the DM2, or from a 3rd party requiring conversion through TrackCreator.

Also keep in mind that the Industry feeds off of biomass, and the only way to get biomass is to get some exposure; the best way to get exposure is collabing with other independent artists. When he's ready, tell your brother to drop me an e-mail and I'll hook him up with whoever I can. :)

I am sure that before I have finished writing this comment many people will have already suggested GNUWin, TheOpenCD, Knoppix, Morphix, Dyne:bolic, Debian and GNU CDs but instead of jumping on the bandwagon and posting links to them (even though with no doubt those are great examples of software which every library should definitely have) I will suggest including some software which is less popular but which students might learn much more from (and in the end, is that not the whole purpose of a library?), id est: Debian GNU/Hurd, OpenBSD and EROS. Lots of useful software one can buy with a magazine, but these systems are much harder to find, while much more revolutionary and unquestionably invaluable if we want people to actually learn something important instead of only "clicking" the mouse. It is also very important to note that these systems would introduce students to real security, something which is hard to find and understand, yet even much harder to overestimate in the terrorism era and the invasion of our privacy with things like NSAKEY in Windows and NSAttributedString in Mac OS X. That is why I think that actively promoting them in every library would be the most insightful idea.

Video encoding? (Now, where'd I put that parallel-processing version of AVISynth?)

dyne:bolic is a Live CD distribution, very small, that can be PXE boot, with full audio/video capture/editing/processing/streaming capabilities plus the usual suite of tools, a few games and whatnot... and is auto-clustering on a private network.

I mean, those IBM 340 MB microdrives aren't really that cheap... you can get full size hard drives for the same price...

I've always wondered; why not PXE boot something like this? Set your node controller to also do DHCP and you're set.

While you're at it, use the CL version for the controller which has two network cards and build a NATTING firewall into the node controller too. Then you have a plug-in appliance that doesn't interfere with your network topology at all. PXE boot it and the motherboards will only need RAM.

The board he used is available for $99 with proc. A stick of 256 is probably around $20.

The best price froogle would give me on the drives he's using is $60, and they're prone to wear and tear.

Add in the $10 CF-IDE adapter and the drive is %60 of the cost of the motherboard itself...

Hell if you don't want the network bogged down with a bunch of PXE booting nodes all the time, just get cheap CD drives and put dyne:bolic on it, which does automagic clustering...

Personally, if I were to do it, I'd set dynebolic to PXE boot, get a huge stack of motherboards and RAM, and do it that way. Then adding/changing nodes is relatively simple... IIRC, they're even factory set to try PXE booting if no IDE devices are found...

The only other change I would make would be to ditch the 16-port switch... move to 4-ports, connect those to a 4-port with gigabit uplink, and connect that to a gigabit switch. Of course at this point I'm talking about really scaling the cluster up, to a few hundred nodes or so. At that point I'd stop using a mini-ITX board for my node controller and go with a motherboard with a bit more juice behind it, dual procs, RAID 0/1, the whole shebang...

Now if only I had a couple grand burning a hole in my pocket... speaking of which:

motherboard: $100
RAM: $20
DC-DC converter: $30
CF adapter: $10
Microdrive: $60

Total: $220
Total PXE booter: $150
Savings: 30%

So, not counting the costs of cabinets, power rectifier/UPS, wiring, network gear, and labor, you can increase the size of your cluster by %30 for the same cost, just for setting up PXE boot...

Why aren't there more live distros for the X-box? I can only think of dyne:bolic.

I've tried dyne:bolic or here for my xbox. It works, but the version I tried was sadly slow. Seems like 32MB RAM isn't what this distro calls a good time. And of course: It requires your xbox to chipped and ready.

There's another VERY good one out there for the media hacktivists but really not only, Dynebolic.
Give it a try it just gets where others dont (check for yourself the features) and for the lovers of the "beowulf of these" liners...

yes it does! Openmosix clustering in a boot.

Nothing more. As far as I can tell there's nothing here that you couldn't do just as well with an off the shelf PC. In any event you still need the mixer, speakers, mics, playback equipment, processing, and transmitter that aren't included with the WVRS. ... with an off the shelf PC, a couple of soundcards, a couple of microphones, and a Dyne:bolic boot CD, you could be broadcasting onto the Internet in under an hour.

I understand that dialup has enough bandwidth to upload a low bitrate stream to a re-streaming service.

The record industry is doomed because we no longer need any industry to record data (musical or otherwise) thanks to personal computers which even using entirely free software can be better then entire recording studios few years ago. We don't need multi-million-dollar equipment, so there is no point in centralization. RIAA knows that and they are desperately trying to do anything to save their obsolete business model. They can only be safe if there is DRM everywhere and people need a license to publish their work in a way readable with most of the equipment of the future (Palladium/TCPA/etc.). In the past we needed the recording industry becuse they were the only ones who had the equipment. In the future we'll need the recording industry becuse they will be the only ones who will have the encryption keys. Thank god we have FSF, EFF and similar organizations fighting for our freedom because I'm sure as hell I don't want to live in such a future.