You can.. it's not *quite* as easy as that, but that's about the size of it.
The latest trick is to modify the signed drivers in-memory so they 'accidentally' strip the DRM... that's cutting edge stuff though and I wouldn't want to be the one working it out.
Since then, HD content has been distributed in encrypted WMV and many other encrypted formats and no-one has even tried to crack those.
Are you kidding? Everything up to WMV 10 has been cracked. It's not as simple as 'run hack, play unencrypted film' yet (by any means) but of course only one person needs to actually strip the protection... p2p takes care of the rest.
You actually can't access the APIs to decrypt the DRM stream normally.. they're stubbed out in the public APIs. The routines are in a static library that's given out to a select few licensees.
Now I can imagine that won't last long, but it might last longer than you might think... you might have heard of the Common Scrambling Algorythm. Its details were guarded like fort knox and it managed to stay out of the public domain for several years before someone leaked it.
Of course once one copy of this library gets out, then it's game over for DRM...
It is (apparently) quite easy to extract the key out of a device, and that's all you need.
The next gen boxes will be those that have a bunch of keys for common TV sets.. or maybe they'll pick something like the a Tivo. revoking those will piss off too many customers and probably wouldn't be practical.
It wasn't worth the effort.. both of these had a normal CD track in them anyway (in the case of DVD-Audio, a normal unencrypted DVD track for players like mine that couldn't play the encrypted one).
For the very marginal increase in quality why spend the effort?
DRM == closed, by necessity, since if you can see the code or understand the protocol, you can break it.
That's why Linux will never be DRM compliant (which doesn't bode well for the future.. with DRM Bioses and processors on the horizon we may end up having to stockpile old hardware to run it on).
In the 'drm future' there isn't supposed to be any idea of 'open' just dumb devices that are little more than souped up DVD players.
Did you read the top of that page? It's supposed to be a joke...
"What fun! April Fool's Day all year long! Can you manipulate the multipliers and weights to make your favourite language the fastest programming language in the Shootout?
And remember, languages that implement more benchmarks will move to the top of the list, and those with many missing benchmarks will stay at the bottom!"
That said, in the direct comparison there are no places where perl uses less memory or CPU than python, so you can't fudge there results enough to make perl faster (or at least I couldn't find a way in 5 minutes).
That's true of all open wikis though (and the software that wikipedia uses doesn't allow group access control so they're stuck with leaving it wide open).
You could say the same about google linking to it... There's a nonzero chance that it'll be a page full of links to porn sites.. if you don't want to risk it don't click on links to wikis.
TBH what it really needs is a proxy protocol... something that lets it run on NAT networks.
At the moment your option is:
1. port forward 6881-6889 to a single machine.. Sucks if you have more than one machine (there are a dozen machines on this network and I'm damned if I'm updating the firewall every time someone decided to use bittorrent instead of ftp).
2. Don't do it, and suffer 0.5k/sec transfers making the protocol useless.
It would require a proper framebuffer and hardware to update on the monitor... driving the price up considerably.
I can't see this taking off - even adding a few cents onto the manufacturing cost at the low end can make or break a product... this is going to be quite a bit more than that. DVI is popular because it actually removes a step (the ADC in the monitor) so it's dirt cheap to implement and gives a gain in quality... what incentive do the manufacturers have to implement this new interface? More cost, no benefit to the consumer...
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Just like email-vertising died the same way.
Oh, wait...
You can.. it's not *quite* as easy as that, but that's about the size of it.
The latest trick is to modify the signed drivers in-memory so they 'accidentally' strip the DRM... that's cutting edge stuff though and I wouldn't want to be the one working it out.
Since then, HD content has been distributed in encrypted WMV and many other encrypted formats and no-one has even tried to crack those.
Are you kidding? Everything up to WMV 10 has been cracked. It's not as simple as 'run hack, play unencrypted film' yet (by any means) but of course only one person needs to actually strip the protection... p2p takes care of the rest.
You actually can't access the APIs to decrypt the DRM stream normally.. they're stubbed out in the public APIs. The routines are in a static library that's given out to a select few licensees.
Now I can imagine that won't last long, but it might last longer than you might think... you might have heard of the Common Scrambling Algorythm. Its details were guarded like fort knox and it managed to stay out of the public domain for several years before someone leaked it.
Of course once one copy of this library gets out, then it's game over for DRM...
It is (apparently) quite easy to extract the key out of a device, and that's all you need.
The next gen boxes will be those that have a bunch of keys for common TV sets.. or maybe they'll pick something like the a Tivo. revoking those will piss off too many customers and probably wouldn't be practical.
It wasn't worth the effort.. both of these had a normal CD track in them anyway (in the case of DVD-Audio, a normal unencrypted DVD track for players like mine that couldn't play the encrypted one).
For the very marginal increase in quality why spend the effort?
Remember CSS had a form of key revocation.
They never used it. They didn't dare.
Your information is old. Genuine Advantage now takes a greasemonkey plugin to disable it..
Impinge is a perfectly normal english word...
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It's not cromulent at all.
Get it from an old MSDN set. It's not in the new ones as I'm sure you've found.
Or just forget it and upgrade to Windows 2000... that's only 5 years out of date..
Most Linux distro that use MD5 salt the hashes in /etc/passwd or LDAP.
/etc/passwd any more. They go in /etc/shadow.
Nobody puts passwords in
Alternatives exist (Kerberos, Samba, LDAP) but they're nowhere near as widespread.
..so the way to beat this is to put a newline in your password (which is possible on many systems).
DRM == closed, by necessity, since if you can see the code or understand the protocol, you can break it.
That's why Linux will never be DRM compliant (which doesn't bode well for the future.. with DRM Bioses and processors on the horizon we may end up having to stockpile old hardware to run it on).
In the 'drm future' there isn't supposed to be any idea of 'open' just dumb devices that are little more than souped up DVD players.
Did you read the top of that page? It's supposed to be a joke...
"What fun! April Fool's Day all year long! Can you manipulate the multipliers and weights to make your favourite language the fastest programming language in the Shootout?
And remember, languages that implement more benchmarks will move to the top of the list, and those with many missing benchmarks will stay at the bottom!"
That said, in the direct comparison there are no places where perl uses less memory or CPU than python, so you can't fudge there results enough to make perl faster (or at least I couldn't find a way in 5 minutes).
That's true of all open wikis though (and the software that wikipedia uses doesn't allow group access control so they're stuck with leaving it wide open).
You could say the same about google linking to it...
There's a nonzero chance that it'll be a page full of links to porn sites.. if you don't want to risk it don't click on links to wikis.
TBH what it really needs is a proxy protocol... something that lets it run on NAT networks.
At the moment your option is:
1. port forward 6881-6889 to a single machine.. Sucks if you have more than one machine (there are a dozen machines on this network and I'm damned if I'm updating the firewall every time someone decided to use bittorrent instead of ftp).
2. Don't do it, and suffer 0.5k/sec transfers making the protocol useless.
No.
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement.
Theft is theft.
They are two diferent things.
It would require a proper framebuffer and hardware to update on the monitor... driving the price up considerably.
I can't see this taking off - even adding a few cents onto the manufacturing cost at the low end can make or break a product... this is going to be quite a bit more than that. DVI is popular because it actually removes a step (the ADC in the monitor) so it's dirt cheap to implement and gives a gain in quality... what incentive do the manufacturers have to implement this new interface? More cost, no benefit to the consumer...
Make exact duplicates in Taiwan and China, then flood the market with them.
I for one won't be buying until 'unlocked' HD-DVD etc. are available.
HDMI supports DRM too, and is pretty much going to be the standard in the future.
I really don't see the point of this 'new' interface.
Nothing wrong with selling CDs full of open source software... there are quite a few commercially available in the high street.
That's such an unenforced law though it's basically irrelevant.
Look at all the flash only and ie only websites... nobody's prosecuting them.
A turban generator?
What are you going to do with that? Go into business selling to india??
I would hardly call gun crime 'soaring'... stop reading the Daily Mail!!
The gun crime rate, far from soaring is actually falling.
Gun crime is 0.5% of all crime... 9% of all homicides recorded. A total of 88 deaths per *year* (source: home office statistics 2003/04).
In other words you chances of being killed by a gun are 1.44 in a million.
Go an ask our US friends how many deaths due to gun crime there are in a *week* let alone a year, then talk about 'soaring'.
But there *is* no spoon.