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Testing Microsoft And The DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the gosh-that-sounds-like-freedom-of-speech dept.

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.

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  1. PhD candidate taking a break?! by October_30th · · Score: 5, Funny
    Taking a break from working on his doctoral thesis

    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?

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  2. MIT by lingqi · · Score: 5, Funny

    man the guy certainly has a lot of time to meddle with the XBOX...

    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?)

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  3. You forget. We ARE the world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.