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Gracenote Founder Rewriting History At Wikipedia

Posted by kdawson on from the setting-the-record-straight? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gracenote founder Steve Scherf is busy again in his attempts to rewrite history after his recent interview at Wired. This time around he is aggressively deleting or seeking removal of any content on Wikipedia that discusses the controversy behind the commercialization of the formerly GPL'd cddb. Slashdotters may remember when cddb joined the Bad Patent Club back in 2000. Gracenote followed up by filing lawsuits against its customers for trying to switch to freedb and for alleged patent violations. Are there any Slashdotters out there who know the facts about Gracenote — its history, its business practices, its lawsuits? Wikipedia needs your help."

2 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. or by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    let them know how you feel by contacting them directly

  2. Re:My 0 cents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the best way to Fight Shitnote.

    In Windows at least. "replace '-' with a space"

    Add the following settings to the hosts file Located at \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

    212.91.252.38-----------cddb.cddb.com
    212.91.252.38-----------cddb.cddb.org
    212.91.252.38-----------cddb.cddb.net
    212.91.252.38-----------us.cddb.com
    212.91.252.38-----------sc.ca.us.cddb.com
    212.91.252.38-----------sc2.ca.us.cddb.com
    212.91.252.38-----------sj.ca.us.cddb.com
    212.91.252.38-----------sj2.ca.us.cddb.com

    You can also download an appropriate hosts file and put it in your Windows-directory, if you don't want to add the entries by hand. You can test if this works by directing your browser e.g. to cddb.cddb.com. You should see the freedb-website instead. Instead of using 212.91.252.38 as IP-address (which is the address of us.freedb.org), you can of course use the IP-address of any of our mirrors.