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  1. Re:Press Hype or Me Cynical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on US Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Nissan 350Z

    He wrote a binary-only Windows GUI. The hard work - actually reverse engineering the computer-to-drive protocol, reverse engineering the CSS decryption algorithm and stealing the first playerkey from the Xing software player - were done by other people, such as Derek Fawcus and the LiViD team, or people who choose to be anonymous from the warez groups Drink or Die and Masters of Reverse Engineering.

    He didn't do very much except be the target of litigation. But, like it or not, newspaper editors love to push the "lone whiz-kid teenager destroys big business" trope, and have made it look like Jon Lech Johansen actually cracked CSS, when he did no such thing.

    I love him anyway - he genuinely cracked the Apple FairPlay encryption and the Apple Music Store protocol. But he did that when he was older than 16!

    http://www.defacto2.net/groups/dod/more+dod_decss. txt
    http://www.twolife.org/static/decss/decsstruth.txt

  2. Interesting interview of BanDiDo by joetheappleguy · · Score: 3, Interesting · on DrinkOrDie Warez Trader to be Extradited to U.S.
    Some interesting quotes from this article, I wish I knew how long ago this interview took place.
    [BanDiDo] : I cannot be busted, I have no warez here... And it is not a crime to be in a group. I have however, known many people who have been busted over the years. Some due to their own stupidity, but the majority due to "narcs". (Another unwelcome part of the newbie attacks we suffer from)
    Hindsight, etc. A while back I knew a few people in Zeraw and it really amazed me just how much software went through their servers, something like six or seven 120GB drives' worth of stuff every 2 weeks or so. (This in 1998). It wasn't much of an issue as far as an impact on the industry until some started selling the stuff and it when it became way too easy for the man-on-the-street to get in and get stuff instead of actually going out and buying it. I'm actually surprised these groups lasted so long.
  3. As much as can be expected from the Rolling Stone by soccerisgod · · Score: 1 · on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo

    If you've downloaded a song in the past few years, it's in large part because of Justin Frankel. Seven years ago, when he was just eighteen, he invented Winamp, the first software program that made it easy to play digital music on your computer.

    Yeah, stupid me. And I thought it was because of programs like WinPlay3 and all those pirate groups (Rabid Neurosis, anyone?) that started to rip cds and distribute them via MP3 that this started.

    Sweet memories... When I first got that free version of WinPlay3, my computer could only play back songs with 22khz and in mono because it was so slow, and it took half an hour just too get one song - my first one was "Lodi Dodi" by Snoop Doggy Dogg. Heh.

    Nowadays I just buy CDs, mp3ize them and play them back with either mpg123 or mplayer. NOT winamp. And when I download songs, it's mostly from legal sources, like EMusic. But then I guess I'm not most people....

  4. Re:Future Crew members by bitrate · · Score: 1 · on Assembly '03
    There's not a lot of information about their exact whereabouts, but I do know that the main reason they stopped making demos was lack of time due to compulsory Finnish Army service.

    Here's a short timeline which might offer you some more information.

  5. Re:Future Crew members by jth1234567 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Assembly '03

    During early 90's Purple Motion played keyboards in a band called 'Decoryah', who managed to release two full length albums. Some information can be found here : Unofficial Decoryah page. There seems to be his more recent work at mp3.com too : Jonne Valtonen

    Some other FC members are/were working at Remedy Entertainment, creating Max Payne among other things. Some others were involved with Bitboys, a small company designing 3d-hardware, and topic of a couple of articles here in Slashdot too over the past few years :)

    Google also helpfully provided a semi-outdated History of Future Crew page.

  6. Re:Don't Forget Message Networks by scalis · · Score: 1 · on The 25th Anniversary of the BBS

    I remember when some BBS'es began to replicate forums from the early internet in the same way fidonet did from BBS to BBS.
    Amazingly slow and you had to wait days for everything to replicate (kinda like DNS, :P )
    But it still gives me a fuzzy fealing to see myself listed in old "GreEtZ" in "elitE" .NFO files.
    If i could go back in time I would smack myself for raising the phone bill just to transfer [insert all kind of crap here] with a 2400 modem connection.
    A whole bunch of old ANSI/ASCII nfo-files and screendumps from BBS:es long gone can be found at defacto2.net

  7. Re:It's been a long time since I looked at any dem by Soulslayer · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Bitboys Silicon Sighted

    Interestingly enough the BitBoys are actually ex-Future Crew guys. As are members of the Max Payne and 3D Mark teams.

    Future Crew Timeline

    And Skaven was even competeing. In fact he won the "Instrumental Music" category with a new version/sequel to his previous winning song "Catch That Goblin".

    Anyone interested in MOD/ULT/S3M/IT/XM/669 music from the demo scene should checkout Nectarine Radio.