Everyone stays friends. Everyone gets paid. Everyone has a fucking future.

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu OS, has written a nice piece on DRM, and how it just won’t work.

The truth is also that, as the landscape changes, different business models come and go in their viability. Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave. Sorry for you. It’s necessary to innovate (again, sometimes!) and stay ahead of the curve, perhaps even being willing to cannibalize your own existing business – though to be honest cannibalizing someone else’s is so much more appealing.

You can read the entire article on Mark’s blog.

I’ve finally gotten my hands on the entire Year Zero album, thanks to Nine Inch Nails themselves. They’ve put all the songs off the new record up for listening at their website, and made it quite easy to simply download the files off the webserver to listen offline. It’s been running on repeat the last few days :)

So, what do I think about it? Well, it’s not “teh bestest album evar!!”, but it’s pretty damn solid. I suppose it’s going to take some getting to know, just like most new albums like this. Anyway, now I’m just waiting for my preorder to be delieverd. Seems like it’s going to come in a pretty cool packaging, digi-pack with lots of album art and supposedly a disc that changes appearance after you first play it!

I can’t wait!