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How about HaXXXor? You can't get any more realistic than that.

They're looking for these chicks!

He must be talking about haxxxor.com

Wouldn't you rather ask these girls to help?

Like this one?

Try http://www.haxxxor.com/... (nsfw)

But seriously, here's my opinion. I'd like to think it counts for something being a producer and all...

There seems to be two types of people that comment on projects like The Broken, and HaXXXor, and 2600, et al.

First there's the people who say, wow that's cool.

To them, I say: Thank You.

Then there's the people who act as those the presence of any material, whether it's a video, or a print magazine or whatever is a direct threat to their way of life. Then the screaming begins.

It's not the type of thing a REAL SYSADMIN should care about, it's only worth reading if you're 15 (obviously doesn't apply to HaXXXor), it's stupid, why bother, and on and on and on.

I don't really see why the negative points are really valid, besides from the obvious fact that freedom of speech means freedom of all speach. Once you get past the freedom of speech part though, it really doesn't pan out.

First, it's a good thing that people are making videos and books and magazines talking about this sort of thing. While it may be old hat to some people, there's a lot of other people out there that haven't even heard of this stuff. So the next time that you want to lament the masses for their ignorance, remember the heaps of criticism that anyone who produces any material that might help a few more people who aren't as L33t as you to bridge the gap.

Second, for the people out there who throw out the massively insightful, this is stupid and pointless, why bother, type of remarks. Just remember, a lot of really cool things have been created because someone spent a lot of time working endlessly on something that was considered pointless, and then an occassion would come up with something that proved to be useful.

Here's the deal, just remember that there are people actually creating these things. There's a person on the other side of the video, or book, or magazine, or whatever, that's put a lot of time and work in to it. If you think you can do better, then pick up a camera and give it a shot. But if you've never even tried doing something like that before, then why don't you try to appreciate the work that was put in to it, and what was done right, before you rush to tear it apart.

In this community, it is common that a program that still needs a whole lot of work gets gushed over, but the moment someone makes a video it's an instant target? You really should be supporting these efforts (or at least constructively criticizing them). It's hard enough to be a small independent producer. However, it's small independent producers that are the competition to Hollywood and the big television networks. Do you prefer them to be the only people who talk about hackers?

Anyways, that's my take on it...

You want the man show meets computers? Try HaXXXor.com (Not safe for work).

It's a joke. Anytime you hand people a bucket of bits, they're going to decide what they want to do with it. I mean, do people really think it's a great idea to sue their customers, and then dump shitloads of money into Washington to pass all sorts of draconian laws designed to totally curb freedom, in order to maximize their own profits?

Well, that's how those people work, and you know what, it is making them a whole lot of money. Meanwhile, as a small independent movie producer, I place every dollar I got in to my films, am constantly criticized for my low production quality, and am constantly mocked by people to the extent that it's easy to copy my movie, and instead of buying it, you should just download it.

Is that enough to make me frustrated? Sure. Frustrated enough to sue everyone. No.

I mean, anyone with half a brain can see from the disk that I used neither region encoding nor did I use CSS. Why is that you ask? Well, CSS is totally broken, for starters. Besides, even if it weren't broken, CSS does nothing to stop the copying of an entire disk. Video pirates routinely take a disk, make an exact copy of it, and it works just fine, CSS and all. So really, what's the point? What's the point of CSS, but to further munge up the data files. As far as region encoding goes. I do a lot of traveling, and it's annoying and insulting that I can't pick up some local DVDs from my travels and take them home and play them. Sure I can get a special dvd player, or a special software, but what about my Mac? What about my friend's players? I wouldn't want to live in a world where something as stupid as geography determines what you can and can't watch (although that seems to mostly be the case now). Even if I have to see it happening around me, I'll be damned if I'm going to contribute to it.

So yes, people have figured that my DVD can easily be copied, played anywhere in the world, and I won't even sue.

As far as this new FBI seal goes, it's just more advertising for the FBI. The major players in the movie industry get the FBI to do their bidding like little lapdogs. Meanwhile this gang of thugs continue to do all sorts of civil liberties violations. I'll never include it in anything I do (as if the FBI would ever lift a finger to help me out, even if I did become evil, and actually decide that I wanted their help). In return for the FBI being hired thugs for the movie industry, the movie industry gives them all sorts of free publicity, and further legitimizes them, and increases their hold over the hearts and minds of the general public.

I'll never use this seal, and I'll continue to poke fun at the FBI and MPAA any chance I get. Other people will continue to poke fun at me any chance they get. Life goes on. Of course, I'll probably never own a private jet, produce a movie like Lord of the Rings, or have enough money to buy several congressmen. The MPAA has all this and more. I wonder which companies ideology will end up winning in the long run, mine or theirs.