Scumbags in action:
Remember CDDB? The free online database of CD track listings assembled by
volunteers from all over the Net, that was bought by some company who
promptly declared it proprietary information? Well, now they have blocked
"unlicensed" applications from accessing it. What does an application have
to do to be licensed? Well, it needs to show ads for CDDB, prohibit the use of
any other CD databases, and not allow the data to be exported to other
applications. The
Slashdot thread is here.