Socialist Sushi

Wednesday night Amber purchased and downloaded a song from American Idol. It was in WMA format, and required an activation code. No problem — the code was on the download page. Just copy and paste.

Only it didn’t work. It kept giving her scripting errors. I played with it a bit, and on about the third try the little browser window gave that warning, the “Do you really want to run this ActiveX control?” warning. I clicked yes, and everything worked.

Is this how easy all DRM will be now? Where a competent computer user like my wife will be stumped? Where Internet Explorer will only give you the actual error after several tries?

It’s so nice to spend money and then be treated like a thief.

Ben Towle brings up the significance of umlauts in this post:

Note that two of the four bands that immediately come to mind when considering Ironhead have umlauts in their names–that’s a sign of quality, folks.

In an email he mentioned that someone should do a study on the importance of umlauts in heavy metal band names. On a whim I checked Wikipedia, and hit gold.

Just the umpteen-millionth reason to love the intarweb.