I am a performing and visual artist and musician. Born in Ventura, California, I have lived in Florence, Italy since 1998.
I am also the owner of evolving design and performance international.
Things I'm on about
Recent blog posts
- 4th of July
- Feeds I follow
- Basketball in Firenze
- Carolina in Talking Heads
- Complete anti-piracy failure from musicroom.com
- Complaints about the tax hike -- you should be ashamed
- Americani ubriachi a Firenze. Siamo tutti un po' responsabile.
- Artwork for Talking Heads
- Talking Heads this year for AperiTeatro
- Giving your client, and yourself, a fair deal
Complete anti-piracy failure from musicroom.com
On musicroom.com, if you're a Windows user (or Mac, I think) and don't mind installing a plug-in, you can view and download legal copies of sheet music for a reasonable price.
Great idea!
Except I'm one of those silly people that use open source software -- so no Windows, and no sheet music.
Reading their fine print, it seems this silly practice is in place to keep nefarious evil pirates from making copies of legally purchased sheet music.
Their reasoning being that if they only allow access through the Scorch music reader plugin, and only allow you to print one copy of your legally purchased sheet music (and there's a whole FAQ on what to do if you run out of paper or ink during your one single chance at printing), then you won't be able to make a digital copy (and we all know that only evil people need a digital copy).
What's to keep me from scanning in my printed version?
When a security system has such an obvious loophole, you might as well do away with it altogether.
Meanwhile, once again an anti-piracy scheme is making it impossible to purchase the product legally.
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