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Cory Doctorow is a big fat liar—UPDATED

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Of course that’s wrong - if anything, I believe Doctorow and Boing Boing are anti-DRM-at-all-costs. But read on and you’ll see the point I’m trying to make.

As usual, BB and Cory Doctorow thought they had another whipping boy for their continual “no DRM anywhere” drone.

Apple pops out the Podcasting version of iTunes (version 4.9) and Cory is immediately on their ass:

-> Boing Boing: Apple adds DRM to Podcasting—UPDATED

Happily they corrected the body of the article - and posted a correction: Apple uses the MPEG-4 AAC format, which offers higher-quality recording vs. MP3. That they’ve added the “—UPDATED” blip to the old article title, which is a good move forward.

But…

The body title and, importantly, the HTML page title claiming DRM deception remains. Why should it matter? This way, almost all search engines will pop up the page maintaing the factually incorrect position ad infinitum, and collecting ad revenues for every inquisitive clicker that gets faked-out looking for the true facts.

They can smear Apple at will, fire it into the stream of consciousness we call RSS and later revise history to cover their asses. And we have to pay (via advertising) to find the real facts.

THIS is why blogging isn’t immediately journalism.

Want to be really fair? Change the title to “Apple does NOT use DRM on Podcasts - UPDATED” **and** post a new article pointing back to the updated article.

PS: There’s still no way to comment directly on a Boing Boing article - only permalinks and self-promotional linkbacks. The stone-wall remains up.

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