Since we haven’t had a working TV in a week (and we lost another week’s worth of TV that was on our DVR when formattng the drive as part of the troubleshooting process), tonight I am trying to locate copies of all our favorite shows… The Office, Scrubs, 24, Survivor, etc.
Only Survivor is available on Xbox Live’s Marketplace (and Shelly has watched it from here for the last three weeks because of issues), so that one was the easiest to figure out. The rest, well getting them from Bit Torrent seemed so obvious. However, I’m a father now, and someone who doesn’t (willingly) go to those lengths anymore… 
So, I figured that I would download them from iTunes. At $1.29 each, it is the quickest and easiest method available that I know of. After downloading and installing the software (that I love to hate), I logged into the iTMS and found that my account still had $20.39 credit from sometime long, long ago. Sweet! Finally, something “good” has come out of this horrible DirecTV experience.
April 7, 2007
There is a new article by Steve Jobs in the “Hot News” section entitled “Thoughts on Music.”
Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.
Now, if only such a world existed. The article is an interesting read, and hopefully another step toward the end for DRM. After all, Steve has continuously had more clout with the entertainment folks than most other tech companies…
February 6, 2007
Yesterday at the Apple Store in SF, lots of people got to see the infamous “goatse” photo for the very first time!
This nearly brings a tear to my eye, and oh how I wish I could have been there to see it.
There are lots of photos and details on the Laughing Squid blog.
January 12, 2007
