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Testing Microsoft And The DMCA
sproketboy writes "I found a great piece about an MIT student and his XBox hacking over at news.com.
Apparently he can't get his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA. I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left. ;)." The student is doctoral candidate Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the same hacker Microsoft declined to stop last August from presenting a paper on insecurities in the Xbox hardware.
You know, you shouldn't get your works published DUE TO horrible and confusing spelling mistakes.
I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left.
You could say almost anywhere but USA! DMCA/Patriot/Patriot2 are US laws! not *world* laws!
What kind of "freedom" does a citizen have in a communist country?
Obviously this wouldn't apply to Russia, being a recent convert from communism.
Linux is only free if you consider your time worthless
I'm appalled. Since when have PhD students had the luxury of "taking a break"?
When I was working on my thesis, PhD students would work 6 days a week without vacation for 4 years straight and, as far as I can see, at least the physics PhD candidates are still working like this. Is "taking a break" something that computer science people can afford?
The owls are not what they seem
...to help understand some of the legal mess the DMCA has created around reverse engineering:
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse's Reverse Engineering FAQ
Russia -- MAYBE
China -- NO WAY
If you seriously think you're worse off than the average chinese person because you can't legally make a backup copy of your DVDs, then you seriously need to rethink your priorities. At least in the US we have the RIGHT to speak out against the DMCA while if it were enacted in China, anyone speaking out against it would be lucky ever to be able to speak again.
Yes, the DMCA is a bad law, but it is in no way comparable to the conditions the average Chinese person faces on a daily basis.
GET SOME PRIORITIES!
less spying on ther citizens than USA do. Look on the development since 9/11... I just say: Developing brainscans on Airports... great idea.
man the guy certainly has a lot of time to meddle with the XBOX...
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Talk about a great school...
* Diploma that will get you LARGE amount of cash later
* Research topic is to fiddle around with game console
* Appear to be victim and popularized as sort of a martyr on
Now if you add a dash of sex (point one - mass quantity of money, can usually bring this to realization), it would be the perfect life.
Well, if he move to china, where there's still some freedom left. heh.
(note to self: why does my sarcastic jokes always come out like troll posts? Maybe a MIT education would help?)
My life in the land of the rising sun.
The X-box has been accused by many of being a test run for DRM technologies; i.e., it's a completely locked-down, intellectually hermetically sealed box on which Microsoft has Power Absolute.
This guy is now pushing out a book on x-box hacking and MS is not doing anything. While his problems publishing it is speaking volumes as a concrete example of how real and present the whole "chilling effect" meme is on defeating free speech, the point remains that he is refusing to be deterred and forcing this book through come hell or high water.
And MS, realizing if they try to get a book banned because it talks about their video game system, they'll face public backlash, they'll have the EFF go "holy shit this is the big one", and they'll lose after years in the supreme court after having being hurt more by the case than the PHD student... is not taking action.
So, here's my question: in six or seven years, someone is going to write a book about Palladium, and all known ways to hack it. And either it will end any use of Palladium as a security technology (though probably preseving its use as a monopoly prolonger)... or MS will try to have this book banned.
Is there going to be any difficulty for MS, if they try to stop the book on palladium hacking then, considering that they didn't stop the book on x-box hacking now? Are they setting any kind of precedents that people can point at in the future and say "look, if XYZ is illegal, then why wasn't that x box book in 2003 illegal?"
It's called censorship. There's also Freedom of speech in other countries even though americans don't seem to think so. Come on, you have to realize that you live in a country where the companies and the government run you, not the other way around. And there's not much freedom in that. The government just makes you focus on your Freedom of speech when your freedom gets restricted more and more every. And what about a law. An unethical law doesn't make it more correct. Does it?
This whole affair about XBox, Security, DMCA, Linux-on-the-XBox and stories about how MS is losing money n the XBox.... is this all a big ploy by MS to somehow generate interest on the XBox? I mean, is the XBox not selling well as a gaming platform, which is what it's supposed to be anyway?
/. crowd think that anything done against the DMCA is a worthy pursuit? Sharing files maybe, reverse engineering maybe, but Linux on the XBox - certainly not for me.
Why fiddle around with a $200 XBox and load Linux on it after circumventing a 100 security holes, when a Linux PC can be had for the same price on Walmart?
How many of us can afford an XBox but not a separate PC? Even if somehow it's possible to load Linux on an XBox and attach a CD writer, USB mouse, kbd etc., is it still worth the trouble?
The more I read such articles, the more I get the feeling MS is DESPARATE to sell these XBoxen. Does the
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
send it to moi, and ill sort out the publishing in the UK no probs :-)
Also, whats that post goin on about that Saddam is dead?
I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left.
Becuase everyone knows how much
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Competition in America: If you can't beat 'em, Sue 'em!
There never has been a true communist country - Russia was Stalinist. There have been many attempts at socialism, but they all turned out to be very totalitarian, mostly due to a highly centralized government.
And by the way, the USA may not be communist, but it certainly looks more and more fascist every day. It certainly isn't free.
What good would this do?
Just like Michael Moore has done with Stupid White Men, he moved to Penguin because they gave him the support against the corporate heavyweights.
And of course he could just publish it as an ebook on the internet.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
The xbox is slightly changed around a bit from version to version. Not really sophisticated stuff but they do shuffle the pcb layout a little to keep chippers guessing for a couple of minutes. Mostly to cut costs I would suspect.
The reality is, that if they closed up the D0 line on the bios chips they would be quite a large step closer to removing the ability for modchips to be used. Most of the chips implicitly rely on pulling D0 to ground.
Even though this MIT guy is cool and talks about some decent things you can hardly blame microsoft for trying to shut the guy up. At the end of the day every person that has ever wanted a modchip from me has wanted it for piracy - not so he can have a fabulous webserver etc.
i think the dude was trying 2 be sarcastic...
i know that text isnt exactly the best medium for sarcasm but i think the ";)" helped a bit there...
just my R0.02 (yes other countries also have cents!!!!!!!!!!)
...that US publishers now feel like they can't distribute books on hacking hardware, despite the array of them on other topics like:
- Building unlicensed automatic weapons and explosive devices
- Converting post-ban assault rifles for fully-automatic operation
- Breaking and entering
- Creating a counterfeit identity
I guess it's like the view that violence in a film is more appropriate for a wide audience than sexual content.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Not quite. "Could care less", indicates that you do care a bit, that you could care less. "Couldn't care less" - you have no care left. The first one has grown up to be more annoying to it's target, ie- "I could care less about (you), but I can't be bothered"
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Contrevening our laws would be terrorism, which would force us to invade, take control and install DCMA/Patriot/Patriot2 for their own protection and ours.
..this reminds me - for no clear reason - on the controversy surrounding PGP when it was first written. While it was illegal to export the code in binary form (ie as a file) as it was considered a mution, it was quite allright to print out a stack of paper and send it abroad, letting some poor sod punch it all back in.
No, I know this isn't like that, but I'm reminded of it, that's all. Possible because the information already is 'out in the wild', but can't be 'officialy' published.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
If this was about the information getting out there, it could (for instance) be put up on GNUtella or somesuch anonymously.
No, this is about profiting from the adventure. Even pre-DMCA, this was a no-no.
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They won't publish my book about the sassy h@>0r robot either. Bastards
HOW THE FUCK IS HACKING AN X-BOX A RIGHT PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT??? Why do people who do something illegal always try to defend their act by claiming their actions are protected SPEECH!
If I own the damn hardware, I should get to do what I want with it. Including hacking it. It shouldn't be illegal - that's rather the point...
Are you sure that shouldn't be "Ten items or fewer?". pedantry n : a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
And don't hand me the bullshit line of "fair use, running linux on it". You and I know damn well that 99% of people 'modifying' their X-Boxes and PS2s are doing so for the purpose of playing copied games.
A quick googling reveals that even though Wiley has refused to publish the book, you can still pre order it at Bunnie's website[http://www.xenatera.com/hackingthexbox/ind ex.html]. You can even see a sample of the chapters on the site. Whats more, he is even using the rejection by Wiley as a plank to sell the book. :-) )
To quote from his site:
"A book so controversial that publishers are afraid to print it!"
"Hurry and get "Hacking the Xbox" before Microsoft does!"
According to the site, the book is shipping in May ( year not specified though
What's under yellowstone?
- you need to 'sort it out,' bonehead...
"There's been quite a few posts..."???
- how about "There have been quite a few posts..."
Talking or writing about what you chose to do with your X-Box is the right that's supposed to be protected by the First Amendment.
Doing what you want with your purchase is a long established practice under the doctrine of first sale.
It should only be a problem if you use your purchased item in the commission of a crime against another person or their property.
Posessing knowledge, or the dissemination of knowledge should never be a crime. If the information is that important, safeguard the information in the first place.
In Soviet America, DMCA violates you!
1.make a special BIOS that will load an appropriate boot-loader or kernel somehow (something like that XBOX linux bios). Then sell all mod chips with this BIOS pre-loaded. If it detects that the disk in the drive is a bootable kernel or etc it will boot from there else it will boot from the XBOX hard disk. This can be used as-is for XBOX linux. But for those that want a BIOS to play "unsigned xbox software" (such as import titles or some of the xbox emulators floating around), what there would be is a small program that gets put onto a disk & fed into the XBOX which boots & runs it. This program would copy another bootable program to the XBOX HD. The program on the XBOX HD would basicly contain the equivilant of an existing mod BIOS. So, if someone wants to play unsigned crap (such as imports or emulators), they can:
buy this mod chip (which doesnt have any M$ code on it nor does it allow the playing of XBOX games, signed or unsigned, therefore M$ has a lot less chance of sucess if they try to sue)
then either A.re-flash it with some pirate bios from the net (the person selling the chips in the first place would only offer them with this bios)
or B.grab the program that installs the "boot-loader" onto the XBOX hard disk. That "boot-loader" would then substitute for the real XBOX bios & load the appropriate XBE file or whatever.
That way, M$ has less avenues to sue the mod-chip sellers. The person making & distributing the "boot-loader" can do so anonymously or something so that they cant be caught by M$.
only in the US I'm ?afraid?
In Europe, the US is seen as a cultural monster that trys to impose it's ideals upon everyone else.
Europe was anti-american before the whole Iraq thing.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
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What's under yellowstone?
I know that's not what it sounds like, but that's how it's spelt.
To UK (and other non-US) users of English there is a difference. We pronounce the 'd' in 'due' as if it were 'dyue'. This makes it sound different from 'do' but the same as 'dew' (which is in turn different from 'jew'). Lots of 't' words are the same - 'tune' and 'toon' can sound different.
"Apparently he can't get his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA"
/. can't publish a readable article do to its inability to understand elementary school grammer. Cripes.
Apparently,
And the could/couldn't care less thing is quite interesting. Americans tend to use could and British tend to use couldn't. I think if you couldn't care less, then you are already caring about it as little as you can. Whereas if you could care less, you are caring about it too much already :)
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> Obviously this wouldn't apply to Russia, being a recent convert from communism.
Russian wasn't communist, and China isn't. Both are totalitarian governments in much the same way as Hitler's Germany or Pinochet's Chile.
Just because they said/say they are communist doesn't make it so.
It seem like every week we have a post about XBox hacking? Why? Consoles have always been hacked. Apparently hacking the XBox is "cool" and is a good thing because it "hurts" Microsoft. 95% of those people installing mod-chips are still pirates and they hurt the sofware industry in general. There is nothing "cool" about copying software.
"You and I know damn well that 99% of people 'modifying' their X-Boxes and PS2s are doing so for the purpose of playing copied games."
;-)
Damn wrong!
At least 50% of the people modding their X-Boxes do so to be able to watch their downloaded DivX-movies on it.
But that's besides the point. Even if it's true that most people mod it to run illegal copies, just modding it shouldn't be illegal. Actually playing the pirated games on it should be (and is already) illegal, but not just modding the hardware, because there are fair reasons to do so!!!
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
... that you climb a rock, you put Linux on the XBox.
It's there and you can prove to yourself you can do it.
Now where can I get a DeCSS RPM for X-Box Linux????
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I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left. ;)
What an absolutely pathetic thing to say.
Do some research and see if you still feel like bitching about your rights. I don't like the DMCA either but get some perspective, man.
why doesn't Microsoft just release the xbox architecture like ibm did to PC? i mean they are loosing money on each one sold, aren't they?
they don't expect the box to make any money anyway.
One is that those $200 PCs don't have anything close to the graphics power that the Xbox has. And most of the Linux applications for the Xbox have not been geared toward turning it into a Web server or a word processor. They want to turn it into a media center and have the box under their stereo system that stores videos, digital audio and other stuff. The Xbox is really pretty handy for that.
Before we start, a few points:
O.K. The guy is a cryptography and reverse engineering expert, who did a lot of work reverse engineering the XBox while he was a student at MIT. He has now graduated, and runs a business which specialises in reverse engineering. He wants to publish a book which details how he and others went about reverse engineering the XBox. Just to make that clear:
Doesn't it strike you as odd that a guy is having difficulty getting a book about his profession published? Surely this is all covered under the first amendment? Aparently not; the DMCA would appear to trump an Amendment to the constitution. Think about that for a moment. Do you know what the constitution is supposed to do? Can you think why this is a bad situation?
To take it to an extreme; if an expert in his field cannot publish a book about his profession, then how can these professionals share information and knowledge? If they cannot effectivly share information and knowledge, how can they operate? If they cannot operate, how can we have cryptographic experts? If we have no cryptographic experts, how can we have crytography? This is an intentionally extreme, rhetorical set of questions, but think about it for a little while. Doesn't it strike you as a little odd?
This man can't publish a book for fear of some type of prosecution. In another lawsuit against the DMCA, this could be cited as an example of how the DMCA is effectively exercising prior restraint to publishing, and in actuality creating a chilling effect.
Judges do not take kindly to the words "prior restraint" or "chilling effect" as there is ample Supreme Court precedent firmly against both. An event such as this could help turn the tide of a future DMCA challenge.
And this isn't internet, it's the publishing of good old dead-tree books that judges can understand.
In that case, the intent was the litmus for deciding on whether or not to make it illegal. In this case, as I believe with mod chips, the intent is very clear.
if someone would bother reading the guy's page, you'll see he's already graduated.
In the article, there is reference to that poor soul recently nabbed for selling mod chips. Now his domain name is the property of the US Gov't. Check it out.
The article also lists four other sites (drug paraphenalia sites 1 2 3 4) which are blocked by the DEA. Interesting part, click them, now the DEA, FBI whoever knows you checked them out. Disturbing.
So, I made sure I connected to all these links. It would be nice if other people did this too because a high volume of random connects, will essentially make data collection worthless. Anyone know more of these?
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Why not publish on the internet in the form of an eBook? He can do that himself practically. I'm sure that the tech community that would buy the book would find out about such a publication too. So he publishes the book, and the target audience gets the book. Win, win.
- Joe
It looks like Andrew has an issue with MS/DMCA...what was his /. ID again?
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
A lot of people don't like it when I say this, but I think that is because they are afraid of what it means (and deep down they know it is true).
The citizens of a democracy are legitimate targets for military operations. We (I am an American) decide who our leaders are, our leaders decide how to use the military, and our foreign policy. Our military is an extension of us, we are responsible for the actions of our country, if groups (Al Queda, et al) are mad enough about what we do, to decide to go to war with us, they should attack the citizenry, it would be crazy to try to defeat us in a "conventional" war. We all have heard the Sherman quote about war being to for a more perfect peace, well in the minds of those who would attack us, that is what they are trying for, a peace without us messing with them. That is a legitimate problem for them to try to solve, and the methods they use are legitimate to obtain that result.
People in the west want to believe that terrorism is evil, because it is easier than confronting the fact that we are responsible for our actions.
Anyone who has studied the American Revolution will tell you that the tactics employed by the revolutionaries in the colonies were looked upon by the British, in much the same way that we look upon the terrorist now. The Americans did not fight in ranks, they hid from the British and took pot shots, rather than fighting them out in the open, the cowards! Just like we call people willing to sacrifice their life for a cause (ultimately attempting to remove the US influence on their lives) cowards for using terrorist tactics.
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Considering that the WTC was used as a military target that would fuckup our economy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28 42.htm
How's the view from your ass?
That was a case of engineering, of an academic exercise, and luddite judges don't understand that stuff. This is in reference to publishing a hard-copy book. Our judicial system has always frowned upon preventing the publication of books.
Now if Edelman had done the research and was stopped from publishing a book about it, the cases would be approximately equal. Didn't he know it's better to ask forgiveness than permission?
I've read his stuff on hacking the xbox back a few years and all the toys he used to do it. I hope his how-to does come out, in one form or another. I think he was one of the first, if not the first guy, who successfully hacked the box... after which a flurry of mod-chips came out.
http://www.q-cat.com/
Ah, but is it illegal to modify a firearm to fire automatically if you have a licesne to own an automatic weapon?
The difference is that it is illegal to own an automatic firearm without a license, whereas there is not a law saying that XBoxes running Linux are illegal.
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Step two: Shower
OK, perhaps I should be more clear. How is modifying the machine to run illegally-copied games an exercise in free speech?
It isn't, publishing the book is. The modifications are an exercise of Fair Use provisions in copyright law. Fair Use says that you can do whatever you want in the privacy of your own <x> with something you've bought.
And your "99%" line is canonical luser-speak for "I don't feel like thinking about this anymore".
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
There are valid arguments against the US and its actions, but you did not come close to them with your ignorant, lie filled, slanted screed.
...the right of the people peaceably to assemble... And the ones that were not peaceably assembling were removed and arrested for breaking the law. Its called civil disobedience becuase you deliberately break the law, thus no longer "peacably" assemble (look for the legal context - peacable means "law abiding" in the case law)
Give me a break. Just because you RANT it does not mean it is fact.
Here's just a couple of errors you make.
Freedom to assemble? No - try reading the source code: 1st Amendment:
Grandmothers hauled away by SWAT teams? Citation please. Were they breaking the law? And also, show me the SAWT teams - they are sledom if ever called out for demonstrations. So this is yet another one of your "points" that is just another hyperbolic lie from an obvious US Basher.
"Highest crime rates in the priveledged world" Wrong again. UK leads the world in occupied home burglaries, among other things. And just what is the "priveledged" world? Another transparent lie of yours despatched.
The US is a "Police State"? Pull the other one! Do you realize how stupid that is, prima facia - and deep down too? Were that so, Slashdot would not exist, nor would the ACLU or EFF, or the gun-nuts at the NRA (Police states hate armed populaces) or the loony "John Birch Society" for that matter. So, more non-factual hot air - just inflammatory language to try to draw peopel away fromthe fact that you have no real case here other than just venting a lot of anti-US emotion.
You want a future police state to worry about - one in which the people have already sheep-like comitted to giving their rights to unelected non-representative political masters, go look up what the EU are doing in Brussels. The powers the people of EU are givig the police and EU government there, socially and economically, are incredible, and enough to shackle them in chains within a generation. Even the Communist Party of the UK claims to to be a budding police state.
http://www.communist-party.org.uk/site/Archives/ Fe bruary_2003/European_Union_and_the_Police_/europea n_union_and_the_police_.html
Bashing the last election? Give me a break - thats old news and it proves the system works AS DESIGNED (Electoral votes). The local electors screwed up - even after all the recounts Bush was still ahead, and even after the FLa Supreme Court partisanly thwarted the election code, Bush was still ahead - and the Supreme Court overruled the bad decision from the FL court, just as it should have. Bad decision? Maybe - but the real mistake was by the locals in screwing up the ballots in a Democrat run district to the point where the vote counts were unreliable and obviously partisanly biased in favor of the Democrat. Furthermore, on a national basis, the election borke down to Gore winning the urban and coastal areas, and Bush won all the rest - even Gore's home state of Tennesse. Bush won 4:1 in terms of counties, and in terms of win a county = support, the population of the counties that voted pro-Bush was 143 million to Gore's 120 million. Similary, land area goes 6:1 for Bush excluding the Bush victory in Alaska.
So it was a close race, but to say Bush is not properly president is to perpatuate a bitter lie by those disappointed with Gore's poor candidacy.
For the Electoral Colleg - if we dont like it, we need to change it, just like we did with the Senatorial elections (and some of us are working on that instead of whining about it). And unlike the Chinese, with whom you speciously compare us, we DO have the option of changing our government without a Tienamen Square style massacre.
As for "growing up" - why don't you try to learn a few things and stop reciting things straight out of the Euro-marxist US Basher handbook, and start looking at results, overall free
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It should only be a problem if you use your purchased item in the commission of a crime against another person or their property.
And this is the problem. The DMCA and other laws like it fetishize intellectual "property", so that certain ideas are owned by corporations and even thinking them is a crime. Looking inisde your own box or trying to watch a DVD on Linux is considered a trespass on the property of Microsoft or the MPAA, and thus treated in the same way as if you'd actually broken into Bill Gates's or Jack Valenti's home.
Or Instead of calling it the X-Box in the book, Call it the MS-Box.
You know...when you started your answer I was going to mod you up because I thought you had a few good points. However when you started your Euro-soandso crap I realised your attitude was just as stupid as the one you claim to be condemning. I am not worried for you, you will reach the +5, but not with my mod.
Of course I am European (even French as a matter of fact) I think your vision of Europe is as far from truth (and please do not take the UK communist party as a reference, or I shall start looking in US'es non representative groups) as my vision of US is.
Maybe understanding freedom as the set of what we can or cannot do rather than the ability that we have of changing the course of events is the cause for all these childish (still!!) comparisons.
I believe that 9/11 (sorry 11/9) has led all western countries in a legal state that should worry every one of us, not only for our own country, but also for the countries with which we do business and share goals. From that point of view I am as concerned by the road US is taking than by the way Europe is catching on.
As for why reasons why US helped Europe during all these wars we could also argue for a while. Still I am grateful you were there, this does NOT make me, or my country, your slave.
Anyway, I preferred answering than modding down.
May I use your sig please?
Parent is right...both of you have valid points, but both of you are sounding like trolls... oh well, I have two mod points to blow, might as well mod them both down...jesus...
And both have spoken in their own names rather than using AC (like I am ;-) )
Why not publish the book in soft copy format. Encrypt it an an easily crackable format and then it will be illegal for Microsoft to read it !!!!
That way people can read it illegally if you let them!
No, it's just a common excuse^H^H^H^Hplanation for reading Slashdot. In fact, it's probably the most commonly-offered explanation, just ahead of "there might be a flame war about freedom of speech or open source", and a long way ahead of "I'm reading news about IT and science".
Of course, it's not convincing when you're "taking a break" for the first hour of every workday...
Um...
I have to go now.
Procrastination: when you really don't need a reason.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
The book does contain a section about possible attacks against Palladium and TCPA, as well as a discussion of non-cryptographic alternatives to Trusted Computing that provide good security without the bitter taste of DRM.
The hope is in part to establish some kind of precedent about fair use, whether or not it sticks around long enough to matter when Trusted Computing hits full stride. At least, it will provide a solid starting point for arguments ;-) ...these days, it seems public opinion is guided mostly by speculation and FUD...
Why not try self-publishing?
Or how about make the first edition of the book into pdf or whatever net-aware form, put it online, and let anyone who want to access it?
Whatever DCMA is, they can't control the whole world, yet.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
A great comment indeed! Thank you for presenting my view also. I'm glad there's more of us :)
- Turn your X-box into a EMP bomb
- Add a nuclear power supply
- Hit someone over the head with your X-box
- Juice up the laser in the X-Box to be a weapon
- Use your X-Box to infringe on someone's Copyright
The last one's the doozy. Just accept that Copyright trumps free speach--and realize that, as long as you don't hack the darn thing to make it violate copyright, the DMCA doesn't give a damn about you.Nice thesis on parallel processors...but I wonder how many people have the resources (both financial and the "stick-with-it) to make it through university to eventually get to the phd level...what is it about the human species that like to build these huge obsticles (or tasks like jumping through a million hoops) to get a university education (I guess it has to do with darwinian competition, limited educational resources and even the fact that all the corporate/educational/militairy-Industrial institutions tend to be run by left-brainied individuals who demand exact performance etc. Also, if any feild (like bio-tech, medicin, genetics, computer-science, electronics, nanotech,etc..looks like it will make lots of money, boom!, it becomes very expensive to get an education in it). I am myself, very lazy, I like to daydream and have never made much money, and can't stick to jumping through a million eduational hoops, (have Attention Defict to the n'th degree) it would be much better, if in the future, we could all get educational machines to cram stuff into our heads using, say, nanotech or those "education machines" in "Battlefeild earth " movie. that would be cool.
By contrast, Hacking the XBox was dropped by John Wiley & Sons, a billion-dollar outfit that does 2000 new titles every year. I don't know how many of these were about illegal weapons retrofitting or burglary how-to. Proably not a large percentage!
Try to find a representative example before you make a categorical statement!