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SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony'
The Importance of writes "A couple of weeks ago BMG released an audio CD with a new type of DRM. Earlier this week, a computer science graduate student at Princeton wrote a report showing the DRM was ineffective - it could easily be defeated by use of the 'shift' key. The stock of the DRM company (SunnComm) has since fallen by 20%. Now, SunnComm plans to sue the student under the DMCA and claim that SunnComm's reputation has been falsely damaged. According to SunnComm's CEO, 'No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.'"
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Media in the past often touted the Internet as a child porn heaven. It was repeatedly claimed that Internet users are constantly bombarded with child pornography in their spam, on seeminly innoculous pages, among the search results for "Britney Spears" or "Pokemon" and on P2P, masquerading as vanilla porn. But the facts do not support these assertions. Seek, and ye shall find. Don't and you won't.
But as another saying goes, if it exists, it must be somewhere on the Internet. And yes, this is true for child porn as well. The continuing attempts to eradicate online child pornography made it more difficult to find, but not impossible. Still, it usually requires considerable Internet search skills and experience, otherwise users are trapped into countless pop-up ads and surrounded by images of 35+ year old "lolitas" with pigtails. This article is a collection of techniques for finding child pornography on the Net. I will probably scorned by both paedophiles (for indirectly helping law enforcement) and "normal people" alike, but freedom of speech is paramount to me. Let the knowledge spread!
Disclaimer: I am against rape, violence and coercion, whether applied to children or to adults. I realise that child porn sometimes harms the children involved. But bits and pixels are not humans. No additional harm is being done. Downloading and posession of child porn is legal in many countries. IANAL. YMMV.
Sources of child porn
Child porn was de facto and de jure allowed before 1980s. There have been numerous porn magazines featuring photos of naked children and photos of children having consensual sex with other children and with adults. These magazines operated completely in the open and even solicited photos from their readers' families. These magazines, of course, were closed a long time ago and there is no place to buy the back issues today. But many images from these magazines were scanned and are now distributed on the BBSes and on the Net. For example, the most known series of hardcore scans from print magazines such as Lolita, called LL (Little Lolita) is well-represented online.
There are different laws regarding child pornography in countries all other the world. For example, in Japan child erotica was legal all the way until 1999. It was not usually exported officially, but scanners again filled this niche. One of the best known series, called Black Cat Scans (named after the scanner), available in many places online, features photos of beautiful young (early teens) girls from Russia and other countries made by Japanese photographers. One of the Black Cat Scans models, a beautiful 12 year-old girl called Laika even had an online cult following with a virtual church set up in one of the Usenet newsgroups. Other well-known series include MCLT (My Collection of Lolitas and Teens) by Atom, Yossy Scans and others.
Another abundant source of softcore child erotica is the nudism subculture. Nudists have no qualms about child nudity and hundreds of thousands of photos and videos featuring nude teenagers and kids are freely available. Banning such images is probably impossible without effectively outlawing the entire nudist subculture.
When American courts worked out the differences between art and child pornography, a new generation of legitimate softcore child pornography sites blossomed on the Web. Photos of Next Door Lolitas, Astral Nymphets, Natural Angels, Little Virgins and, of course, Most Erotic Teens appeared online, open to any person with a valid credit card. These sites can be thought about as Playboy with kids, offering viewers a lot of stylish sexual innuendo, but none of the blunt smut that usually characterises porno. And the best thing is that t
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I absolutely hate Autorun and find it one of the most useless "innovations" of the last decade.
Absolutely, autorun has done nothing good for me. I really enjoyed having a phone call every hour from new computer users that say "Hey umm I put this CD in and ummm how do I install it? It's not doing anything." I mean come on, with autorun you can pop in a CD and not have to look for any kind of setup program cause a page automatically loads and has a nice little "Installation" icon right on it! That's terrible! I wish it was never put into computers, because since I'm never going to use it (being the 1337 hax0r that I am) no one will EVER use it.
They should also remove GUIs, cause I mean really, what can you do in a GUI that you can't do from a command prompt? If you can't use a command prompt you shouldn't be using a computer! They're completely useless, take up too much memory (on your harddrive and in RAM) they slow down the loading of your computer and they provide no benefit to computer techies.