It doesn't matter what they want - you're in a much stronger position than them.
The copyright on the original, developed before you were employed by them, very probably belongs to you. The final project is a derived work of this original. Distribution of a derived work requires the consent of the copyright holder of both the original and derived work - you can prevent them from distributing the project at all (even internally) by refusing to grant a license of the original work. Simply 'remind' them that they do not currently have the right to use the final project at all.
How many regular, normal users are going to google/torrent the hack?
Exactly the same number who would have gone with the torrent if this DRM system hadn't been used. So they haven't gained anything.
However, they will irritate customers who don't connect to the internet when playing games - for example, people who take their laptops on flights for entertainment.
Blanket email the entire company pointing out that the Department of Homeland Security recommends against using Internet Explorer for reasons of National Security.
To play one of these games in a moral and convienient way, you'd need to buy a genuine copy and then download a pirated version that allows you to play when you're on a plane, when Ubisoft's servers go down, when your connection goes down etc.
The stated intent of DRM is to make it easy for gamers to do the right thing - but they achieve exactly the opposite, as users who do the wrong thing get a better gameplay experience.
By contrast, Liberal Arts grads. are trained to see both sides of the story and to offer a 'balanced' perspective. But they're unable to cope with issues that aren't a template of 'there are two sides to every story and they're both equally valid' - which is a problem because most situations do not have two valid 'sides' and because the media, and news in paticular, is dominated by Liberal Arts grads.
Which is why science reporting is so crap - no, saying that the LHC will create a black hole the will destroy the earth is not an 'equally valid viewpoint' that the BBC should report in the interest of balance.
You, like many other posters here, are confusing the javascript language with the implementations found in web browsers. Creating javascript bindings to C APIs and system level routines is as trivial as creating Python or C# bindings - web browsers just decline to provide this functionality for security purposes.
Exactly true. All the crap that gets blamed on javascript is only down to its position as the scripting language of the web. People would hate Lisp, Python or C just as much if one of those languages was used to power every epilepsy inducing geocites page.
Do you really trust Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc. to be flawless and not to contain any bugs capable of being exploited to run arbitrary code?
I don't - and I doubt the developers of those browsers would either. No software is perfect - and I very much doubt that any software as complicated as a modern web browser is exploit free.
Mass energy equivilence shows us that 1g of matter contains about the same amount of energy release by the Hiroshima bomb. Mass of fuel isn't going to be a problem for ships powered by matter/anti-matter annihilation.
Nice idea, but it doesn't work.
You've turned the problem from "How do I encrypt X bytes of data in a deniable way" to "How do I hide a file X bytes long".
In other words, for your scheme to work, you need to disclose your 'fake' key and hide your 'real' key - but your 'real' key will be the same size as the data you were trying to protect, so if you could reliably hide that data then you wouldn't need encryption.
Too late! The UK government has already removed the right to silence. Remember when the magic police arrest wording changed from: "You do not have to day anything..." to "You do not have to day anything but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned something that you later rely on in court..."
We aren't talking about a penalties applied to individual companies - we're talking about a tax paid by all companies.
In your example, the reason they weren't charging $60 a month before was that their competition was charging less for the same service. A new tax will drive up the cost for all companies, so custoemrs won't be able to shop around.
Come to the UK and experience the NHS - then you'll fight to the death against public healthcare.
I pay a substantial amount of tax - if I recieved a refund of the amount used to fund the NHS, I could afford very good health insurance.
But instead, the government takes my money and pisses it away.
An example:
I recently moved home and have to register at a new doctors. NHS doctors only accept patients that live within a certain geographic areas, so I have no choice which doctor I register with - and you have to be registered to get anything other than a emergency appointment. When I tried to register, they tell me that I need to fill in a form and make an appointment to see a nurse who will process my registration.
Then they tell me that such appointments are only available Wednesday and Thursday between 2pm and 3pm. If the taxes of all people who were at work on Wednesday and Thursday between 2pm and 3pm disappeared, these people would suddenly be unemployed.
I'd love not to run as an admin. But the Microsoft software I need for work requires it. Running as a restricted user, then running the one program as an admin works for about 90% of the functionality I use, but that's still not good enough. I've taken to running as admin using a VM (which is much easier to 'reinstall' seeing as I can just revert to a snapshot).
24? You must be kidding. It's the ultimate in popcorn TV - no cohesive plot arcs, no character development, episodic content that requires no knowledge of previous events and will never be referenced in future. You need to switch your brain off not to be bored to tears by the crappy formulaic writing.
Episode blah, day blah: Kim's getting chased by a blah, Jack suspects blah of being a bad guy, blah and blah get into a pointless action sequence, blah blah blah.
He said they were secularists and atheists. Neither implies the other, but it is certainly possible to hold bold positions at once - as most of your Founding Fathers did.
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It doesn't matter what they want - you're in a much stronger position than them.
The copyright on the original, developed before you were employed by them, very probably belongs to you. The final project is a derived work of this original. Distribution of a derived work requires the consent of the copyright holder of both the original and derived work - you can prevent them from distributing the project at all (even internally) by refusing to grant a license of the original work. Simply 'remind' them that they do not currently have the right to use the final project at all.
How many regular, normal users are going to google/torrent the hack?
Exactly the same number who would have gone with the torrent if this DRM system hadn't been used. So they haven't gained anything. However, they will irritate customers who don't connect to the internet when playing games - for example, people who take their laptops on flights for entertainment.
Blanket email the entire company pointing out that the Department of Homeland Security recommends against using Internet Explorer for reasons of National Security.
Except laptops capable of playing games are more popular than ever - and laptops are frequently taken to locations with no internet access.
To play one of these games in a moral and convienient way, you'd need to buy a genuine copy and then download a pirated version that allows you to play when you're on a plane, when Ubisoft's servers go down, when your connection goes down etc. The stated intent of DRM is to make it easy for gamers to do the right thing - but they achieve exactly the opposite, as users who do the wrong thing get a better gameplay experience.
By contrast, Liberal Arts grads. are trained to see both sides of the story and to offer a 'balanced' perspective. But they're unable to cope with issues that aren't a template of 'there are two sides to every story and they're both equally valid' - which is a problem because most situations do not have two valid 'sides' and because the media, and news in paticular, is dominated by Liberal Arts grads.
Which is why science reporting is so crap - no, saying that the LHC will create a black hole the will destroy the earth is not an 'equally valid viewpoint' that the BBC should report in the interest of balance.
You, like many other posters here, are confusing the javascript language with the implementations found in web browsers. Creating javascript bindings to C APIs and system level routines is as trivial as creating Python or C# bindings - web browsers just decline to provide this functionality for security purposes.
Exactly true. All the crap that gets blamed on javascript is only down to its position as the scripting language of the web. People would hate Lisp, Python or C just as much if one of those languages was used to power every epilepsy inducing geocites page.
British plug sockets almost always have a built in on/off switch. Sockets with a light that turns on when the socket is on are available but unusual.
Ah, but you use the same kind of plugs as NZ, so bagging the Kiwis won't help you here!
Do you really trust Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc. to be flawless and not to contain any bugs capable of being exploited to run arbitrary code? I don't - and I doubt the developers of those browsers would either. No software is perfect - and I very much doubt that any software as complicated as a modern web browser is exploit free.
No it isn't - it would be illegal for a company, but religious organistations are exempt from that.
Traditionally console are sold at a loss. The Wii breaks with that tradition.
Mass energy equivilence shows us that 1g of matter contains about the same amount of energy release by the Hiroshima bomb. Mass of fuel isn't going to be a problem for ships powered by matter/anti-matter annihilation.
Nice idea, but it doesn't work. You've turned the problem from "How do I encrypt X bytes of data in a deniable way" to "How do I hide a file X bytes long". In other words, for your scheme to work, you need to disclose your 'fake' key and hide your 'real' key - but your 'real' key will be the same size as the data you were trying to protect, so if you could reliably hide that data then you wouldn't need encryption.
Too late! The UK government has already removed the right to silence. Remember when the magic police arrest wording changed from: "You do not have to day anything..." to "You do not have to day anything but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned something that you later rely on in court..."
We aren't talking about a penalties applied to individual companies - we're talking about a tax paid by all companies. In your example, the reason they weren't charging $60 a month before was that their competition was charging less for the same service. A new tax will drive up the cost for all companies, so custoemrs won't be able to shop around.
Come to the UK and experience the NHS - then you'll fight to the death against public healthcare.
I pay a substantial amount of tax - if I recieved a refund of the amount used to fund the NHS, I could afford very good health insurance. But instead, the government takes my money and pisses it away.
An example:
I recently moved home and have to register at a new doctors. NHS doctors only accept patients that live within a certain geographic areas, so I have no choice which doctor I register with - and you have to be registered to get anything other than a emergency appointment. When I tried to register, they tell me that I need to fill in a form and make an appointment to see a nurse who will process my registration.
Then they tell me that such appointments are only available Wednesday and Thursday between 2pm and 3pm. If the taxes of all people who were at work on Wednesday and Thursday between 2pm and 3pm disappeared, these people would suddenly be unemployed.
Stay away from state healthcare.
The Drake equation is maths. Just because we don't know the numbers to substitute for the terms, it doesn't make the equation itself any less valid.
I'd love not to run as an admin. But the Microsoft software I need for work requires it. Running as a restricted user, then running the one program as an admin works for about 90% of the functionality I use, but that's still not good enough. I've taken to running as admin using a VM (which is much easier to 'reinstall' seeing as I can just revert to a snapshot).
The problem isn't the government - it's the people. The government's authoritarian policies are popular - very popular.
Wrong. The judge didn't revoke the search warrant - she ruled that it had never been legal in the first place.
24? You must be kidding. It's the ultimate in popcorn TV - no cohesive plot arcs, no character development, episodic content that requires no knowledge of previous events and will never be referenced in future. You need to switch your brain off not to be bored to tears by the crappy formulaic writing. Episode blah, day blah: Kim's getting chased by a blah, Jack suspects blah of being a bad guy, blah and blah get into a pointless action sequence, blah blah blah.
He said they were secularists and atheists. Neither implies the other, but it is certainly possible to hold bold positions at once - as most of your Founding Fathers did.
SHA-1 is a cryptographic hashing algorithm, not and encryption algorithm.