Firefreak on 2/5/2007 at 18:43
Another interesting aspect: quite soon after the site went back online (after the last towel-throwing blog post), no new hex code posts showed up.
It's like a flash mob on the internet - with a cause.
I can't help it, but I am still amazed by the dynamical group behaviour of internet citizens.
Ko0K on 3/5/2007 at 06:19
Well, I guess they got publicity now.
SubJeff on 3/5/2007 at 06:24
I'd love for the publicity to facilitate a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of DRM , but as with so many things (hi there Cho *waves*) the real issue at the heart of the matter is often skipped at the expense of a cheap media thrill.
Shug on 3/5/2007 at 07:09
love the cheesy bullshit line after their users bent them over - "you've spoken, and we've heard you"
TBE on 3/5/2007 at 08:34
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The hacker said he had grown angry when a HD-DVD movie he had bought would not play on his monitor because it did not have the compliant connector demanded by the movie industry.
Give the people what they want and they won't fuck with you. Hear that RIAA? I think this whole decrypting thing with DVDs and Blu-Ray discs could be avoided if the industry didn't make such huge requirements for playing their content. I was pissed off when I bought Narnia and it didn't work in my player. Seems it has some anti-piracy stuff on it. (errors, put there on purpose) So I found a utility to disable their error stuff, and decrypted the disc. I could have pirated it, but I didn't. I never would have tried to copy it otherwise. If the damn thing would have played the first time I stuck it in the DVD player.
dlw6 on 3/5/2007 at 10:14
In which case, the "reasonable person" would say you didn't break the intent of the law: you bought one copy, and after bypassing the software error you can play that one copy. Media Player 10 pretty much shut me down after it installed itself, before I instructed my firewall that under no circumstances was WMP allowed to access the Internet.
I also want to know why the taff my DVD player can't go frame-by-frame or fast forward/reverse (except in 7 or 15 minute blocks). The VRC (which is built into the DVD player) can do it. :mad:
Don
dj_ivocha on 3/5/2007 at 12:44
I can't help but wonder if the key wasn't in fact released by pro-HDDVD lobby (Toshiba and all the others) in a desperate attempt to gather more publicity for their HD format. What with BD apparently starting to (or are about to) choke their rivals to death and all that.
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http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/2503/tinfoilxk6.jpgGingerbread Man on 4/5/2007 at 16:28
Have you stopped to think that perhaps the first assumption people will make when they see a big rainbow mural on your wall is that you're a proud homosexual?
You have to be careful about those things. I was once chatted up by a gay fella on the street because he mistook my Half Life 2 t-shirt (the one from the collector's edition) as a proclamation of gayness because apparently in addition to co-opting the entire rainbow the gays have decided that a lambda is theirs too.
(true story. I didn't actually figure out what the deal was until much later, but that's exactly what happened. At the time I was just kinda bewildered.)
(edit) oh wait... colour scheme != rainbow mural necessarily. Still, the lambda story was fun to tell.
