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Xbox Hacking Book Prepares to Fly Off Shelves
SecurityFocus posted an article today about a new book that covers hacking the Xbox. The book's author, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, reports that it's selling well, even though the release date has not yet arrived. Presumably, this is because the book covers soldering techniques and adding features like blue LEDs and modchips to Xboxes, most of which violate the DMCA. If this stuff is interesting to you, you can order a copy from Huang's site. It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores.
$6,000 worth of R-Type stickers, racing stripes, sparkling paint jobs, loud exhaust pipes, and annoying Chinese characters that most likely mean "Stupid Round-Eye" serve no beneficial purpose to a $5,000 Dodge Neon either, nevertheless, they adorn the vehicles of 17 year olds everywhere.
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Oh, wow. that would be quite the PDA. You could cut a hole in the side of the XBOX and it would be the office. It would be pretty cool to see.
Just don't try to put it in your pocket.
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Flying off shelves? How can it fly off shelves if it's being sold direct by the author? Wouldn't it need to be sold in bookstores to be capable of flying off of shelves?
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So how long before it appears on freenet? Not only would it be pirated, but it's content might not even be illegal (sorry, no time to read article). This would be a perfect opportunity to use freenet. Free speech! Free Books!
Robert Bindler
A Computer Science student's views on technology.
I had that circumvention thing done to me when I was a baby... And *now* they make it illegal?!...
Damn...
What the...no! No! I was only adjusting the carburetors! Nooooo!!!!!
Frankly I wouldn't be suprised if having a dream with a top 100 song in it is illegal too
It would be under DMCA if it was Bender having the dream.
Table-ized A.I.
shovelling hundreds of thousands of dollars building systems directly into the toilet.
That's the whole business plan with the i-loo!
sorry that is against the DMCA, I cannot help.
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