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Christmas gift to Entertainment Cartel: DVD Copy protection cracked?

Christmas gift to Entertainment Cartel: DVD Copy protection cracked?Go ahead, revolk the keyRevolking a key is a temporary fix. Another key will be found on a different device and open up DVDs for copying again.video is goneYoutube says "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner...

Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Advertising & Promotion, YouTube Inc., Entertainment Cartel, video, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, DVD Copy Protection, DVD, Christmas Gift, entertainment

Discussion threads 2007-01-02

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Warner Brothers: All your memories belong 2 us

Warner Brothers: All your memories belong 2 usI'm not a bit surpisedWhen it comes to their precious copyrights, these companies shoot first, and don't ask questions later. I learned a long time ago not to post stuff that might violate copyright anywhere. But distribute it 'under the radar'. If I...

Tags: Corporate communications, Studies, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., HAPPY BIRTHDAY, memory

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

RIAA/ISP deal on filesharing suggests content deals in the offing

RIAA/ISP deal on filesharing suggests content deals in the offingThis Sounds BadAs someone who does not download content illegal, this worries me. How do they plan to distinguish content as bit torrent traffic or streaming internet radio, for example. Beyond that, how do you know what bit torrent traffic if...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Advertising & Promotion, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Justice comes out against Jammie Thomas

Justice comes out against Jammie ThomasI could be sarcastic and cynical......but instead I'll merely wonder why the DOJ feels compelled to intervene.A great need to punish Thomas harshly.Especially since she represents all that conservative godf******s loathe:Single mother two kidsMinority Native AmericanPoor (can't afford the good legal defenders)More informed about the...

Tags: Digital media, Jammie Thomas, U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Flailing the latest digital whipping boy

Flailing the latest digital whipping boyMy two cents"Of course evidence suggests that file sharing cannibalizes the economic value of the movies, television shows, and music distributed illegally on peer-to-peer networks. Being able to obtain content on peer to peer networks negates the need for consumers to buy DVDs, watch television,...

Tags: cartel, DVD, Music Festival, TV

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Why Big Copyright's"User Generated Content Principles" is frontal attack on Internet freedom

I'm deeply troubled over the tone of a new agreement announced today by a cabal of Big Copyright owners. Entitled User Generated Content Principles- Encourage Creativity-Respect Intellectual Property, the document has been ratified by Disney, CBS, NBC Universal, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft, Viacom...

Tags: Document, Internet, Video, Attack, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Mini PC cottage industry, is dead at 6

Mini PC cottage industry, is dead at 6What real world usesWhat real world uses are there for mini pcs? 69 dollars is a pretty sweet price.another victim of the wintel cartelThese monopolies are reducing our choice of PCs and ripping us off.Should give mini-pc industry a real boostLooks like a...

Tags: CPU, Mini-ITX PC, mini-PC

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Hollywood's copyright enforcer

Hollywood's copyright enforcerI got here from Law School - that says it allLets get businessmen back into business and put the lawyers back into home offices. From this businessman's perspective what is the difference between going to your local library and checking out the film vs pirate copies? How about...

Tags: Lets Get

Discussion threads 2007-08-27

Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.

Of course, thats a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know Im not alone when it comes to the pile of work that you come back to after taking a vacation. You know. The one where, its so big that its depressing and youre not sure where to start? That pile also...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Christmas gift to Entertainment Cartel: DVD Copy protection cracked?

Entertainment execs who took a break over the holidays may or may not be coming back to some extremely bad news particularly since a lot of high definition DVDs were probably given as gifts over the holidays. In case you didnt know, there are two competing formats for putting...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, HD DVD, Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Muslix64, hacker, entertainment, DVD, AACS

Blog posts 2007-01-02

The many faces and challenges of Microsoft's DRM strategy

ComputerWorlds Matt McKenzie has published a story thats probably the most comprehensive look and report card covering Microsofts various digital rights management DRM nitiatives. I dont know that Ive ever seen Matts work before. But, with this one report, he has just earned some serious cred at least with me...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), DVD, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Ive, ComputerWorlds Matt McKenzie, digital-rights management, PC, Microsoft Corp., strategy

Blog posts 2006-11-15

The many faces and challenges of Microsoft's DRM strategy

ComputerWorlds Matt McKenzie has published a story thats probably the most comprehensive look and report card covering Microsofts various digital rights management DRM initiatives. I dont know that Ive ever seen Matts work before. But, with this one report, he has just earned some serious cred at least with me...

Tags: Ive, digital-rights management, Hollywood On Demand, Security, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?

Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?It's called lock-inand it happens over and over and over and over again. Tech vendors want control of the profits. What I don't get is why the customers don't say, "Look, go out and...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., MaybePlays, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?

The rest of the world is beginning to get hip to what happens when the provider of a digital rights management technology DRM decides to change gears as Microsoft recently did when it essentially forked its DRM into two versions: one that it keeps for itself and its Zune brand...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Entertainment, Digital Restrictions Management, Legal, Hollywood on Demand

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Technology that gives us the creeps

Technology that gives us the creepsYes, PlaysForSure sure doesn't.Or maybe it's the Windows Media Player. Anyway, WMP won't synch my duly bought and licensed WMA songs to my Rio Carbon, because it says "a problem has occurred in obtaining the device's certificate." The songs play in WMP on...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, MPAA, RIAA, WMP, Apple iPod, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-10-26

Doctorow: HDTV is a Trojan Horse. DRM is the payload

Cory Doctorow, who is probably the world's best communicator when it comes to the dangers of digital rights management technology, is issuing a stern warning about HDTV. Wrote Doctorow in Information Week:The high definition screen has become a kind of Christmas tree, overladen with ornaments hung by regulators, greedy entertainment...

Tags: broadcaster

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Just what we needed: Another proprietary form of CRAP (DRM)

Just what we needed: Another proprietary form of CRAP DRMDRM? No Thanks.At one time I was looking around to buy HDTV stuff. Now I have lost all interest. Me buy DRM'ed stuff? … yeah, right …Hoist by their own petardYou fail to realize the motivation here--he who controls the DRM...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, DVD

Discussion threads 2006-05-09

Cisco backs DRM start-up

Cisco backs DRM start-upTHe writing is on the wall, DRM is here to stay.Regardless of how many times you hear the haters say it's not.DRM may be here to stay, but ...The customers may not be. The Hollywood cartel and the DRM vendors may end up locking things down tight,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Advertising & Promotion, digital-rights management, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

FSF's Stallman pitches new definition for C.R.A.P.

If you've been following any of the news regarding the now draft version 3 of the GNU General Public License, then you also know by now that the Free Software Foundation and its leader Richard Stallman are looking to prevent the mashing up of GPL'd software with digital rights management...

Tags: Crap

Blog posts 2006-02-14

Are anti-DRM declarations falling on deaf ears?

Are anti-DRM declarations falling on deaf ears?I Agree With These Guys- No faith"The NCC had little faith that industry self-regulation would adequately protect consumers' rights."http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4617176.stmThe problem in the US is that RIAA/MPAA is trying to pass legislation that would require DRM on everything.Wakey Wakey!You misquote Smith's market philosophy. He...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Adam Smith, digital-rights management, consumer electronics, Apple Inc., anti-DRM

Discussion threads 2006-01-18