When this was first posted to Slashdot I went and "rented" Harry Potter. I'll save you all the review of the quality of the video, and get to what most of us care about: how easy is it to circumvent the DRM technology they're using?
In summary: not very. As someone mentioned previously, the file (along with the DRM license keys) sits in a folder (the default location is C:\Program Files\Movielink\MovielinkManager\data\content). But be careful! It has a warning in this folder - "_Please_Do_NOT_Delete_Or_Change_Any_Files_From_Th is_Folder.txt", and this folder is secret...using top-secret "Hidden Folder Attributes" technology it cannot be viewed by your average Joe...but, me, being a 1337 haxx0r was able to click on the folder properties and change the folder to a viewable one...phew! I've made it through their first protection scheme.
Once I found the file I copied it to one of my other drives, RAR'd it, and then burned it to a CD-R so I could "play" with it after it expired.
Flash forward...24 hours are up...the file in C:\Program Files\Movielink\MovielinkManager\data\content is deleted automagically by their client app. I attempt to play the file - no love. Of course, since they use DRM which requires a "phone home" to play it, it doesn't work. I tried setting the clock back - no love. All is lost? Well..maybe...I did some googling and all I could come up with was an app that removed DRM from WMA (A for Audio, not V for Video) files that use DRM version 2 (it was written by "Beale Screamer" back in Oct. 2001)...I queued up the app (FreeMe.exe) and unfortunately I didn't have any luck...the new keys are longer and Microsoft has since fixed the "bug" that FreeMe.exe exploited at that time.
In the end...I was thwarted...I could only watch my movie for the 24 hours I paid for ($5 to boot, arrrr!)...I guess it is back to NetFlix / DivX;-) / DVD-R for me.;-)
Longhorn is the "codename" for the release *after* Windows.NET Server.
Windows.NET Server is already at the Release Candidate stages, I highly doubt they're scrapping it...heck, I already received my free Leatherman Pulse tool engraved with the OS' name for trying out the software.:)
Head on over to the official page at http://divx.ctw.cc/ Or I whacked up a more user-friendly version a while back (includes a mirror as well) for my buddies at http://www.sk3tch.com/divx/ Great stuff...beats every format hands down with the exception of ASF which is a close call...not sure which I like better... Sk3tch
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For your Tivo 1: http://www.9thtee.com/turbonet.htm
And your Tivo 2 can simply use one of many compatible USB ethernet adapters (support built-in to the Tivo "OS" albeit "unofficially").
http://tivo.lightn.org/
:)
No add'l streams of revenue off us Tivo 1-model hackers. Heh heh heh.
Yeah...we can't view photos (boo hoo) and listen to MP3s (Apex DVD player anyone?) but we can extract shows, FTP, telnet, etc. into our Tivos...
Wonder if Tivo will now be disabling this "ability" with a new round of hacker "thwarts"?
When this was first posted to Slashdot I went and "rented" Harry Potter. I'll save you all the review of the quality of the video, and get to what most of us care about: how easy is it to circumvent the DRM technology they're using?
h is_Folder.txt", and this folder is secret...using top-secret "Hidden Folder Attributes" technology it cannot be viewed by your average Joe...but, me, being a 1337 haxx0r was able to click on the folder properties and change the folder to a viewable one...phew! I've made it through their first protection scheme.
;-) / DVD-R for me. ;-)
In summary: not very. As someone mentioned previously, the file (along with the DRM license keys) sits in a folder (the default location is C:\Program Files\Movielink\MovielinkManager\data\content). But be careful! It has a warning in this folder - "_Please_Do_NOT_Delete_Or_Change_Any_Files_From_T
Once I found the file I copied it to one of my other drives, RAR'd it, and then burned it to a CD-R so I could "play" with it after it expired.
Flash forward...24 hours are up...the file in C:\Program Files\Movielink\MovielinkManager\data\content is deleted automagically by their client app. I attempt to play the file - no love. Of course, since they use DRM which requires a "phone home" to play it, it doesn't work. I tried setting the clock back - no love. All is lost? Well..maybe...I did some googling and all I could come up with was an app that removed DRM from WMA (A for Audio, not V for Video) files that use DRM version 2 (it was written by "Beale Screamer" back in Oct. 2001)...I queued up the app (FreeMe.exe) and unfortunately I didn't have any luck...the new keys are longer and Microsoft has since fixed the "bug" that FreeMe.exe exploited at that time.
In the end...I was thwarted...I could only watch my movie for the 24 hours I paid for ($5 to boot, arrrr!)...I guess it is back to NetFlix / DivX
Longhorn is the "codename" for the release *after* Windows .NET Server.
.NET Server is already at the Release Candidate stages, I highly doubt they're scrapping it...heck, I already received my free Leatherman Pulse tool engraved with the OS' name for trying out the software. :)
Windows
Makes sense it would be easier to set up RedHat 7.2...
RedHat 7.2 = a few months old
Windows NT 4.0 = a few years old
It would be more fair to compare RedHat 7.2 and at *least* Windows 2000, even though Win XP came out around when RedHat 7.2 did...
Head on over to the official page at http://divx.ctw.cc/ Or I whacked up a more user-friendly version a while back (includes a mirror as well) for my buddies at http://www.sk3tch.com/divx/ Great stuff...beats every format hands down with the exception of ASF which is a close call...not sure which I like better... Sk3tch