A small round of links

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978756.html?categoryId=16&cs=1: EMI is going to exit IFPI;

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/: Micropolis, a new name for Simcity, is now available with a GPL3 license;

http://joaomartins.entropiadesign.org/2008/01/13/brilhante/:
(this is in Portuguese) Microsoft tells "Bright Partners" they are their "partner of the year". If you check out what did they do, you'll realize that their work was to inject Microsoft into the Portuguese Public Administration. No wonder they got a price...

Microsoft acting as a censor?

One comment from this anti-DRM petition [1] says:

Oh and guys signing this petition.. try saying http://freethebbc.info on MSN - the message send will fail! Microsoft are filtering the website on UK MSN at least, so this has loads of attention ;-) keep signing!

Can please someone confirm this behaviour?

UPDATE: OK, seems that they "censor" everything that has .info and profile.php . How pathetic this "security measure" is?

[1] - http://freethebbc.info

Quick links

Quick links for the day:

• I wonder where is this legal, but being able to capture Last.fm streams into propperly tagged mp3 files is sweet (TheLastRipper);
• Music to check out;
• More music to check out;
• The Portuguese petition against OOXML has surpassed the 1000 signatures;
• UK and Microsoft ignoring the existence of ODF;
• After all Amie.st is not that hot, I'll probably write about this later;
• My musical project has now all its tracks licensed with a Creative Commons license, and the latest CD is almost sold out.

Is this the future?

Is this the future?