The Streisand Effect

Don’t make Canon look too good – mediocre is preferred

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

This is more "idiotic companies" than "Streisand effect", but it's still worth mentioning. Canon has a new 5D MKII camera that apparently is quite awesome.  Robert Scoble was slobbering all over the awesomeness of it, and the CEO of SmugMug wrote a long blog post to show off the amazing video ...

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DRM propels Spore to “most-pirated” crown

Monday, September 15th, 2008

It's not exactly a Streisand Effect, but it's pretty close.  Sony wanted to keep a tight leash on their new game "Spore", so they loaded with a ton of ugly DRM.  You can only have one user account per purchased copy (husband/wife, brother/sister, friend/friend -- no), you can only install ...

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