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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. Learn English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "...he can't get his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA."

    There's been quite a few posts about the "do to" and "due to" spelling mistake. I'd like to point out that in should, in fact, be "owing to". It's a bit like going into a supermarket and seeing the "10 items or less" queue - It should be "10 items or fewer". Sort it out people.

  2. Re:Spelling by Golias · · Score: -1, Troll
    That was just my thought.

    China may grant you the "freedom" to make 3-disk bootlegs of the 7-disk Cowboy Bebop anime, but I'll take the right to speak critically of the government, freely assemble, bear arms, and not have my property searched and seized without cause over the right to be a DVD-pirating weasel any day, thank you.

    The DMCA is a bad law. We get it. What have you done about it lately besides whine about it on forums like Slashdot, where everybody already knows this? Quit using this as an excuse to bash America and get involved in the effort to make America better.

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  3. Free Speech? WTF?? by goldspider · · Score: -1, Troll
    OK, I know I'm going to be modded down, but at this point I don't give a shit. At least a few people will read this.

    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!

    Now I know that this issue is more about the book than the act of hacking the X-Box itself, but the author of the book himself acknowledges that publishing the book (and more to the point, admitting the crime he'd committed) could get him in trouble.

    This is NOT censorship, and this is NOT a free speech issue! He's free to publish his book, but should be prepared to deal with any legal trouble he finds himself in as a result of what he admits to in that book.

    Please stop manipulating our rights to defend your illegal actions.

    ...and I haven't even had my morning coffee yet.

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  4. A Rant [OT] by segfaultdot · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  5. Re:You forget. We ARE the world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Killing civilians? Oh, you mean like Saddam has been doing a thousand-fold over the past couple of decades. If you don't support Saddam's removal, you condone the systematic murder and tortue the Iraqi people have had to experience first-hand for years.

    So, Troed, how does it feel to have your name listed in support of a known and convicted mass-murderer?

  6. Re:Spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess all the mod power was given to French /.ers this week, eh? The only thing you got right was the part about the rest of the world being unwashed barbarians.