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Blu-ray Protection Bypassed
ReluctantRefactorer writes with an article in the Register reporting that Blu-ray copy-protection technology has been sidestepped by muslix64, the same hacker who bypassed the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. From the article: "muslix64's work has effectively sparked off a [cat]-and-mouse game between hackers and the entertainment industry, where consumers are likely to face compatibility problems while footing the bill for the entertainment industry's insistence on pushing ultimately flawed DRM technology on an unwilling public." WesleyTech also covers the crack and links the doom9 forum page where BackupBluRayv021 was announced.
Twofo Is Dying
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Twofo is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured University of Warwick filesharing community when ITS confirmed that Twofo total share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all file sharing. Coming hot on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Twofo has lost more share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo is collapsing in complete disarry, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Student comprehensive leeching test.
You don't need to be one of the Hub Operators to predict Twofo's future. The hand writing is on the toilet wall: Twofo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo because Twofo is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo. As many of us are already aware, Twofo continues to lose users. Fines and disconnections flow like a river of feces.
N00b Campus users are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their total share. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Twofo sharers fool_on_the_hill and Twinklefeet only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Sources indicate that there are at most 150 users in the hub. How many filelists have been downloaded? Let's see. 719. But 1621 IP addresses have been logged, and 1727 nicks have been sighted connecting to one user over the last term. How many searches are there? 600 searches in 3 hours. The highest sharer on campus, known as "firstchoice", or Andrew.Maddison@warwick.ac.uk in real life, was sharing over 1 TiB, despite working in ITS and not being on the resnet. He's only there so people off campus who think they're too good for bittorrent can continue to abuse the University's internet connection.
Due to troubles at the University of Warwick, lack of internet bandwidth, enforcements of Acceptable Usage Policies, abysmal sharing, retarded leechers, clueless n00bs, and ITS fining and disconnecting users, Twofo has no future. All major student surveys show that Twofo has steadily declined in file share. Twofo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo is to survive at all it will be among p2p hardcore fuckwits, desperate to grab stuff for free off the internet. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo is dead.
Fact: Twofo is dying
How about checking out a previous story. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Not quite the same, but similar principal.
Too bad the music industry is still full of shit :(
I was testing /.'s FireHose system earlier today and saw another submission on this - except that one made it more clear as to what was done to get around the DRM content protection. Basically, its the same thing you can do with a DVD, VCD, or any video file - xvid, h264, etc encoding in avi, ogm, or mastroska containers - that is, make frame-by-frame screen-captures of the video and stitch the resulting images together for a new video file without DRM. To my knowledge, yes, this method does result in a pretty much exact copy of the video, except that because it's basically taking those million frames in the video and saving them as raster images and putting in a fast, 25-30fps slide-show...
or at least thats how I understand how it was done anyway - btw, I think it had said it was something like the Intervideo WinDVD player used, though there are other players which I am sure can do this (from the other article I mentioned)...
acomj- sorry, but I am easily annoyed by this.... their = possessive pronoun thank you, -asshat
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. -FZ
Remember back when desktop publishing software like Word came out ...
OH DEAR GODS! Word is not desktop publishing software! Please, please, please understand that.
Do Not spend your time "formatting" a doc in Word. It will look different on the next computer that opens it, depending on the fonts installed, etc. This is actually a Good Thing (tm) when all you want to do is shove information at people and not have them fussing that they don't have the same fonts or what not. But for the love of all things Holy (and Pre-Press' sanity) Do Not send a Word doc to a Printer (or worse, any other Office format.)
*Whew* Sorry, I think I went a little crazy there...
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