Tag: TECHDIRT

We can't deny some of us here at Download Squad love open source software. But there's not a damn fool here that will disagree with the statement: "Bill Gates is an extremely intelligent man." We won't disagree that he's done amazing things for technology as a whole. And yes, we even wish heartily we had the faith in ourselves to say if we had that much moolah, we'd be even half as charitable with ...

As soon as we heard yesterday that Google was developing its own paid video download service including content from CBS and the NBA, it was pretty obvious that they'd have to arrange some sort of content protection to appease the sorts of people who still think DRM is something other than moot, i.e. the TV execs. According to Tech Dirt (via the WSJ), rather than going with a third-party solution, ...