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I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.

Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?

jdb2

I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.

Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?

jdb2

I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.

Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?

jdb2

Still, I can't help but think: digital rights management, sure! Where are my rights, as a consumer, and who is managing them?"

And that is why the Free Software Foundation insists on calling this technology "Digital Restrictions Management (http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm): it points out that this is meant to keep YOU, the paying customer, from doing useful things with the stuff you buy.

"Defective by design" is a term created specifically to describe "digital restrictions management" , where you are, by design restricted from accessing legitimately purchased media. I doubt very much that MS deliberately decided to make this tool work best on "de-obfuscated code". Indeed, I would like to suggest that this is an initial release, and that they are, probably as I type this, working to make the program better.

In the FLOSS world programs are often released without being perfect, because people like the idea of "release early, release often". It gives users a chance to play with new features soon after they are written etc.

So, I'm going to suggest that in this case, MS is not being bad.
Links that are relevant:

• Wikipedia article on "Defective by Design"
• Defective by Design initiative

But here it comes: have we bought a central processing unit which has now become our property because we paid for it, or are we simply buying a "license" to use Intel's "intellectual property"?

Very good point. Intel might be looking at a class action lawsuit down the road, if enough customers buy into it, then later figure that they're getting ripped off and decide to sue.
I suspect some bean counter came up with this, and got the idea from shareware/demo-versions, which can be unlocked to full versions if you pay for a serial number or key.
This is yet another example of hardware, which is defective by design.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Next up; pay to enable some GPU features, or enable the GPU (or any number of them) in next-gen CPUs.

This has the potential to get ugly.

It could get even more ugly, if Intel decides to put a time-out on the upgrade.
There just needs to be a tiny piece of flash memory in the CPU, which keeps count of how many minutes it has been running with the features switched on.
Let's say you buy a six month upgrade, which will let it run for approx. 263,000 minutes. That might come out to 18 months, if your PC runs for 8 hours every day.
Then the features get switched off, and you have to pay to switch them back on again.
Effectively, the features are now a subscription which you pay for.

Intel can be damn sure, that I won't buy into any of this. And neither should you. These types of business models need to be discouraged.
Just buying the PC, and only letting the suckers buy the upgrade won't get the message through.
We need to actively warn people against buying PCs with processors like this, otherwise it's going to be that way with all processors in a few years.

Waste Management takes your waste away, so Digital Rights Management takes your digital rights away.

Exactly - Manage: to handle, direct, govern, or control in action or use: She managed the boat efficiently.

I believe by "manage" they mean to "keep in check" or "keep under control". Specifically, the philosophy is that copyright is a powerful tool to "protect" content (and I say that both loosely and bitterly), while the Digital Rights Management takes care (a.k.a. "manages") of all those pesky rights consumers would otherwise be entitled to under copyright law. By "managing" users' rights to your content, you ensure they only have what you explicitly allow, and not what the law entitles them to.

Also, by not using terms with a negative connotation (i.e. restrictions), content producers can accurately describe the procedure by which they systematically remove consumers' rights and control spin at the same time, both in laws passed to congress and EULAs. Thus, the term "Digital Rights Management" was born.

Well, depending on who you ask...

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-sticker-results

apple makes me sick

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-sticker-results

One step ahead of you.

like it's 1984!

All heil apple!

Apple is a synonym for closed. They even want to dictate what hardware you can use. Total control.

They've really earned this http://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-sticker-results

Funny how the parent (obviously a blind fanboi) conveniently says nothing about PATENTS...

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
clearly discusses why Digital Rights Management(DRM) is not good for society and everyone's DIGITAL FREEDOMS.

Lately, GOOGLE seems to be associating itself with all sorts of DRM-infected companies. DRM suppresses every user's Digital Freedoms.

DRM RADAR ALERT #1: Sony is notorious for this if you've been reading about Sony taking about the ability to use Linux on PS3. Has everyone already forgotten about the Sony CD-Writer installing a ROOTKIT on everyone's PC? That was a form of DRM.
DRM RADAR ALERT #2:The Intel SOC is full of security stuff to clearly support the DRM. I certainly am pessimistic that the security api was developed to protect everyone's privacy. It was clearly developed to protect multinationals' interest to ensure they protect their intellectual property.

Does anyone else foresee Google infecting their core web search web page with DRM?

Connecting the dots, notice this google tv event also coincides with the introduction of ipv6 everywhere which introduces new so-called security api's. We should rename these to ipv6 DRM api's.

I'll be using ipv4 for a while. I'll be avoiding google tv. The schtick and the hype don't work on me. Go find some other suckers.

What's broken with the tagging here on Slashdot that this article is not tagged defectivebydesign?

I agree completely. We can quite easily circumvent the DRM by not buying the game in the first place. I've just had too many bad/annoying experiences with DRM infested games to ever consider buying one again. Recently I tried to re install Bioshock but it seems the DRM has other ideas.

When I finished a game I used to pass it on to my brother and vice versa. This is no longer possible due to all the online activations and DRM. Games seem to have virtually no resale value anymore and it's doubtful you'll even be able to re-install the game a few years down the line.

Boycotting these DRM encumbered games is possibly not enough though. We need to support organisations like http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ .

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

No, because even the "35 Days of DRM" page for Vista is hyperbole with no cited examples and Windows Media Player is the same Windows Media Player you can download for XP (and isn't Windows itself).

Seriously, people actually use Windows Media Player? The only thing I use it for is because of the DVD codec that comes with Windows 7, which breaks under MPC Home Cinema.

(Note: I'm not the person you replied to, so they may post a completely different answer.)

No, because even the "35 Days of DRM" page for Vista is hyperbole with no cited examples and Windows Media Player is the same Windows Media Player you can download for XP (and isn't Windows itself).

Seriously, people actually use Windows Media Player? The only thing I use it for is because of the DVD codec that comes with Windows 7, which breaks under MPC Home Cinema.

(Note: I'm not the person you replied to, so they may post a completely different answer.)

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

Enought examples?
Obs: I are not a FOSS "fanboy". I simply do not like "hidden traps" on my system...

If this had been Windows, the article would have been tagged defectivebydesign.

What are you talking about? How is a Linux kernel exploit related to the architecture of DRM??

Unless the support consists of "expansion packs", or additional games that run on the same engine. Look at Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels: it's the same game as Super Mario Bros., just with different maps. With an appropriate scripting system, it's possible to make a Free engine designed for proprietary everything-but-the-engine, and some games recommended by the FSF use this approach.

ie "vista-incapable"

If you're so committed, why don't you have any free offerings? O'Reilly has tons of selections freely available online, and likely tons of books hidden in storage that are both out-of-print and never to return (at least without serious revision). Why not open up and share them?

The ePubBooks.com site says it wants ePub to be to books what MP3 is to music ... the only way that can happen is if there are tools to publish content, legal and questionable, and have free, questionable, and licensed media be easily shared. MP3 is what it is today because it was used for noncommercial purposes without restrictions. What resulted was a complete change in paradigm, putting the record stores almost completely out of business and then moving on to threaten the whole recording industry with a new model fronted by iTunes.

Is the book industry ready for such a transformation? You've got a bit of an advantage, with no easy way for users to "rip" books from bound tombs to ePub files, but that's only a temporary fix as user demand will push forward digital releases soon enough.

Brace yourselves and prepare. Is this the right path? Is there money to be made while still playing fair? Who will be the "iTunes" of books (and can they get there without DRM)? Take inspiration from Audible and friends, but also note the red flags waved around regarding what DRM does and why it is bad (and why even Apple ended up discarding DRM in the end).

You want ePub to take off? Take out the DRM. Offer books for free. Make it easy for users to publish free (and non-free) ePub books. Make it more accessible on everything from desktops to portable devices: standard readers across platforms, F/OSS ePub software (readers, converters, writers, and RSS/RDF-to-ePub aggregators) that leads the way rather than just limping along, etc.

Yes, you will start by losing money, just like MP3 did. But in the end, there will be a better product that can be shared and loved by all. And there's still profit to be had, too.

You don't have to buy the song or album again. Just pay the 30 cents per song upgrade price. (Music video upgrades are 60 cents and entire albums can be upgraded for 30 percent of the album price.)

Yes, just $0.30 per song to get rid of the crap that we forced on you in the first place. Awful.

In other news, I was getting my updates from MacRumorsLive.com, when their feed was cracked by 4Chan. The site crashed half-way through the keynote. Here are some screen caps for anyone interested:
http://www.realfx.com/images/macrumorslive_pwned.jpg
http://www.realfx.com/images/macrumorslive_pwned2.jpg
http://www.realfx.com/images/macrumorslive_pwned3.jpg

So where's that "defective by design" tag - isn't this a story about DRM and its negative effects?

Oh, but this is Apple. Nevermind...

Do something about it!

McCain and Obama both voted for Senator Leahy's "PRO-IP" bill, which calls for seizing people's computers for sharing.
Don't vote for them!

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/stop-revised-riaa-ip-enforcement-bill-s3325

It still has new and extremely broad provisions for seizing property like computers and servers. Such powers are notoriously abused to go on fishing expeditions, and since servers are often shared, people who are not even the targets of investigation will be hurt in the process.

Why isn't there a tracker page at Defective By Design for how many of these DRM services have died? Google's video, Yahoo's music service, MSN Music, MTV, MLB.tv, CSS, etc?

They want to have some kind of broadcast advert mass market synergy that eliminates competition and feeds them. You might be able to buy a $30 sensor that works with any shoe today. Without DRM you might be able to buy the same for $1 tomorrow. With DRM, you will only be able to do these things with a $200 pair of Nike shoes. They want to wall off their little garden and have everyone pay to participate. As is usual, the garden is only a cool place to be because so many other companies are already there. Free platforms can and will replace the pay platforms and defective by design makes will fade the same way Compuserve and AOL have.

Handcuffed by iPod is more appropriate than ever. Print your own.

They want to have some kind of broadcast advert mass market synergy that eliminates competition and feeds them. You might be able to buy a $30 sensor that works with any shoe today. Without DRM you might be able to buy the same for $1 tomorrow. With DRM, you will only be able to do these things with a $200 pair of Nike shoes. They want to wall off their little garden and have everyone pay to participate. As is usual, the garden is only a cool place to be because so many other companies are already there. Free platforms can and will replace the pay platforms and defective by design makes will fade the same way Compuserve and AOL have.

Handcuffed by iPod is more appropriate than ever. Print your own.

Losing the DRM key for itunes is another example of the same thing. Itunes "breaks", not "DRM is to blame"

Then it's up to FSF and its allies to inform the public that the brokenness is by design.

Many idealist social movements *are* religion-like. In general anything espousing One Single Principle for understanding and managing [the economy | software | law-making] is probably sketchy. However there's a difference between a movement grounded in economic theory and experience that argues for certain changes to economic policy and a movement asking you to harass Apple employees because the iPhone isn't running free software.

Exactly. Look at what happened when iTunes gave people a legitimate service

The FSF monkeys came by and try to shut it down?

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

I mean, especially given the fact that you're not even talking to the right company. DRM is a condition imposed by the record labels, genius.

Do you have evidence for this? Because the existence of Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic.com's DRM-free MP3 stores seems to say otherwise. Also, the iPhone applies DRM to *software*. Who is forcing them to do that? Seems like Apple profits from DRM because it locks people to the iTunes store. Record companies might want it sometimes too, but just because there are multiple parties involved doesn't mean that we shouldn't hold each of them responsible. Otherwise they just keep passing the buck.

DRM sucks, but it's a tradeoff that some consumers willingly buy into, and so what if they do? It's not a decision you need to make. Their choice does not adversely effect your ability to make another. Nobody dies...

You're right to an extent, and I'm not suggesting anyone hunger strike over it. But, it's more serious than you are making it out to be. DRM is being applied to public domain cultural materials and to textbooks and educational video. It really is having a tangible impact on a lot of people and it's something that's beyond a mere business decision. Remember that it isn't just some piece of software -- in the US (and other places) it's a law, called the DMCA, and it threatens people with jail time. Unjust laws should go, and I don't feel bad protesting them and those who threaten us with them (in this case, Apple).

We don't run our own company, but we do highlight those who do run businesses that sell DRM-free products. See http://defectivebydesign.org/guide.

Well i followed the liks from
http://www.fsf.org/ to
News and Activism to
DefectiveByDesign.org to
I guess it's FSF.

Nice 6 years, huh?

A link that I got in my email, to the full text of what the FSF is doing here.

From TFA:

Because this is the only way to get the entertainment industry to agree to allow its content to be distributed as openly as it has with Apple, and because Apple wants to make sure it makes money.

From the link:

Jobs is the largest individual shareholder at Disney, and he could insist that its films be DRM-free.

From TFA:

As to the third question, no one cares where you go. Get over it.

Anyone who believes this, where are you right now? Boxers or briefs? How long is your penis / how big are your tits?

If you feel uncomfortable sharing these details with me, keep in mind, you at least have some idea who I am. You have no idea who's tracking you at Apple or AT&T.

What's the recourse if this douche is wrong?

The fourth question? It's not a question. At least put a question mark at the end to pretend.

That's only because you didn't read the whole question. Again, from the FSF:

If Jobs really wants to see open formats, why doesn't the iPhone play Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora video and FLAC?

Anyone who says "because it would cost money" is a moron. All of these formats have free implementations -- in fact, as far as I know, all of them have free, patent-free, royalty-free, and MIT license at worst, which means if iTunes is at all pluggable, it should take one engineer maybe two hours to add support for them, if that.

I think this is kind of an extreme action, and I can't really support it. But then, maybe extreme actions are exactly what's needed. (And maybe that's just Dark Knight rubbing off on me.)

The question waiting to be answered is whether or not DRM free music will encourage/facilitate more "illegal" file sharing.

My simple guess is that DRM free music decreases "illegal" file sharing. Many people, like me, want to buy music. What is my option if I can not buy DRM free music? My only legal option then is to not buy music.

DRM is Defective By Design

Understand that the Red Ring of Death (RROD) is just a failure in the treacherous computing chain of trust. Everything must be safe and secure because any minor problem along the way could introduce a "security risk". It's important to distinguish between a security risk (for example: XBOX 360 giving away your credit card details to a Russian mafia hacker) and a "security risk" (for example: someone is able to run Linux on the XBOX 360, take advantage of the hardware, and not buy any Microsoft games).

How do you set up a treacherous computing chain?

In software, it starts with protected areas of the CPU, memory, and cryptographic keys. No other programs or processes can see what this special software process is doing, otherwise all the security falls apart as the keys are divulged. To do this, you hide the chip that performs this function somewhere where it's VERY difficult to get at (like inside the CPU itself). From that point, you've got to carry that protection forward in hardware; otherwise a hacker hooks up the probes and gets a clear read on that HD-DVD movie intended to be encrypted until it gets inside the HDTV itself.

So, the RROD originates with the media industries and their broken Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Treacherous computing is the hardware way of enforcing their restrictions in the hardware you spent your money to buy. (So, who really owns that Xbox 360?) Well, apparently Microsoft does, because any little thing that goes wrong, your fault or not, gives you the RROD; it's Microsoft's way of saying:

PWNED UR XBOXOR!

Spend your money on freedom, or don't complain about how heavy the chains lay on your wrists.

Thank you for your kind consideration.

Of course you can make a GPL (v2 or v3) application which is defective by design. You just can not prevent anyone from fixing it!

Watermarks are still DefectiveByDesign

Sorry I don't have mod points at the moment. Thanks for the essay link to http://deoxy.org/aip.htm

Our business plan is to soon provide an environment for free innovation (the customer is the inventor concept) and push the patent system into where it belongs, a harmless oblivion.

Copyright laws are still important though, as they care for software licences like GPL to not be abused. Regarding creative art, DRM is evil (I don't purchase DRM stuff) and DMCA is pure insanity.

support FFII.org, EFF.org and DefectiveByDesign.org

I got news for you... DRM has already failed naturally.

After all of the failed schemes:

DVD,
Sony Rootkit,
Most other CD Copy Pretection Schemes,
Version after version of Apples DRM,
HD-DVD and BluRay...

Why would they even entertain the idea of standardizing something that is defective by design.

DRM always was, always is, and always will be a failed attempt of companies to lock customers into 1 media, 1 product. Information inherently *wants* to be free. Why not put the effort into something much more valuable to society... like laws that *prevent* companies from implementing DRM Schemes.

*That* would be news I could sink my teeth into. :)

And in great style, I reply to my own post, but just spotted this link: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/DRMEbookFlyer

I'm sure that will have been posted a few times by now, but it basically sums up all that is wrong with the Kindle and Sony Reader much better than I ever could.

And here is some propaganda material: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/DRMEbookFlyer

Think of all the DVDs and CDs those BitTorrent users will buy with $195,000 !!!

Before you buy any CD's and line the pockets of the litigious bastards, please visit here;

http://www.riaaradar.com/
http://defectivebydesign.org/

Shop informed.

Are you sure you know what defectivebydesign means?

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't see any association between DRM and firewalls.

"Defective by design" is not typically used to refer to "any defective technology, har har", except by a few folks here on Slashdot. "Defective by Design" is a campaign of the FSF, referring specifically devices or software that are deliberately crippled with DRM. see defectivebydesign.org.

Sadly, and as one would expect, this all comes too late to make any difference to MediaPlayer's market share.

Perhaps the obligation to publish interfaces will bear fruit, but only if MS get appropriately punished in a timely manner when what they initially publish turns out to bear no relation to what is actually in 'doze, or does relate to it, but doesn't actually contain sufficient information to get the job done.

In the mean time, the BBC have handed control of their on-line content over to MS in the form of the BBC iPlayer, which relies on MS DRM. By the time that the EU notices that, they'll have killed off the currently vibrant set-top box market, and the bulk of them will be running some form of WinCE. At least that's the danger, which people a need to get excited about now if it's not to come to pass.

The uproar from the public is that this new offering goes against what the BBC stands for at it's very core. By choosing a closed, proprietary format they've narrowed the scope of who can take advantage of this offering. The linked article goes into some nice detail

Here it is: http://defectivebydesign.org/blog/BBCcorrupted

The article goes as far as to suggest the BBC has been corrupted by Microsoft. I'm not sure it goes that far, but I think the BBC had all good intentions but failed on the delivery. I hope they won't abandon the effort but simply update it to ensure it's available cross-platform, DRM free using FOSS etc...

Would be a great showcase for FOSS if they did.

Cheers.