What you say is exactly what I say. They can be sued for copyright violation (They may not redistribute it, but they do). But you can not sue them for the license violation proposed by the original poster (where did they agree to pay $50'000 per copy sold?).
First you have this HDD encryption, but you can still make mp3s from your CDs.
Then you have Audio DVDs. You can't extract them to do mp3s, but you can still rip from CDs.
In ten years, they will not sell anymore CDs, everything will be encrypted, you can't make anymore mp3s (beside awfull analog recording... but that's another story).
I have been following the DC hacking/cracking scene from the beginning, and I think it all started when UTOPIA released their boot CD and another guy released infos allowing to use the DC with a CD-R instead of a GDROM.
Then it was easy. You had gcc for sha4 or you could find the Wince Dev kit for DC in warez.
I found the review quite correct. But some issues are not well covered. Most of them are discussed in the parent post, but there are some more I want to share.
Don't get me wrong, I like my jukebox very much. But the firmware really needs to be improved for the NJB to be worth its price.
First as the parent post says the lock switch is software read. A major problem is that is doesn't really lock the keys. I usually carry my NJB in the back of my pants, so buttons get pushed quite often. If all of the buttons get pushed at the same time several time, the NJB will generally freeze, needing a needle to restart it.
Secondly, even if you have 1 or 2 hours playback left, the NBJ will consider itself in low battery mode and refuse to save any setting.
Third, I encoded all my mp3 at > 192Kb/s. The UI will then be incredibly slow, and often you think you selected a song, but the NJB will play another. Even more, the volume will refuse to work correctly under heavy load.
The UI is really NOT userfriendly and could be improved a lot. No easy way to just play one song you want or remove a song for the queue without fiddling with all buttons (it's ok once you have memorized all the button to press in which order).
But the most annoying thing is that all tracks are sorted on ID3 tags and there is no way to sort them by directories. So I get a lot of problems with my songs that don't have correct album/genre/artist tags (I have a big album called *UNKNOWN* on my NJB). Some songs just go into the wrong album in the NJB because of a wrong ID3 tag.
NB: I just installed firmware 2.56.
The improvements are that you finally have fast forward as advertised. Before this FW if you listened to a mixed album, you would have a 2 second silence before the next song was loaded. Now I just get an annoying *click*. The unit still crashes at least once a day., Creative refuses to acknowledge the problem.
Hi, I Know most of you Linux guy are not concerned, but what is the compatibility with X11 ? I run a Solaris box, and there are already so many linux software hardly protable on other Unices.
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filtering script tags in far from enough.
There are numerous ways to have script executed in a page.
to name few:
alert('foo')
btw if IE finds a \0 anywhere in a page it is just stripped out. Your parser would have to take this into account.
Yes sure,
when smartcards will do it to the USA, you will see how easssssssssy it is to dump a smartcard ROM.
They will use Secure Authentication Modules, now it is mainly a secure chip with fuse EEPROM on die, or just a crypto smartcard.
Me are not english mother language, sorry if me not see that forbid me post here.
Loosing my memory again, it is The Eurostar anyway.
Wasn't the England-France train called the Shuttle, not the Chunnel ?
You missed my point.
What you say is exactly what I say. They can be sued for copyright violation (They may not redistribute it, but they do). But you can not sue them for the license violation proposed by the original poster (where did they agree to pay $50'000 per copy sold?).
How do you prove they agreed to your license in the first place ?
Do you have a signature or something.
It comes down to the same problem with then enforcability of shrink wrap licenses.
IMHO IANAL (Put acronyms here) but you can only sue them for copyright infringment, not for a license violation or something.
Well,
you didn't read my post. I mentioned analog recording (aka with a microphone).
Too bad Cartoon Network Europe doesn't play Anime.
(At least last time I checked).
That's why version 4 fucked up all vertex on saving if it saw the dongle had been cracked ?
Well,
First you have this HDD encryption, but you can still make mp3s from your CDs.
Then you have Audio DVDs. You can't extract them to do mp3s, but you can still rip from CDs.
In ten years, they will not sell anymore CDs, everything will be encrypted, you can't make anymore mp3s (beside awfull analog recording... but that's another story).
Matrox ?
You want to replace HDDs with video cards ?
That's why 3Dmax protections are so hard to crack, with dongles and all sort of stuff ?
IHMO, thos article is a kind of joke/Xmas fun. Not of these products are vaporware.
Good products may take a very long time to develop. I still prefer having to wait a long time for a good product than getting a buggy product.
This article title should have been "The thing your are wainting for and you want the most".
Anyway, I would have put duke nukem as number one. By coincidence I was checking the page today.
AFAIR the DC only has 16Mb of RAM and it is already a limitation for developpers.
Would it be possilbe to make a good a NC with that, when a lot of today's web pages uses video, flash etc ?
While your argument is probably true, it is over simplisitic.
Many people would never have bought a DC if it was not possible to play pirated games. (And a larger user base means more games sold).
A great part of the people pirating games would never have bought an original or don;t have the money anyway.
And in each discussion about piracy you find hundreds of other arguments from both anti and pro piracy types.
Note that this post does say NOTHING about the morale of pirating.
I have been following the DC hacking/cracking scene from the beginning, and I think it all started when UTOPIA released their boot CD and another guy released infos allowing to use the DC with a CD-R instead of a GDROM.
Then it was easy. You had gcc for sha4 or you could find the Wince Dev kit for DC in warez.
I found the review quite correct. But some issues are not well covered. Most of them are discussed in the parent post, but there are some more I want to share.
Don't get me wrong, I like my jukebox very much. But the firmware really needs to be improved for the NJB to be worth its price.
First as the parent post says the lock switch is software read. A major problem is that is doesn't really lock the keys. I usually carry my NJB in the back of my pants, so buttons get pushed quite often. If all of the buttons get pushed at the same time several time, the NJB will generally freeze, needing a needle to restart it.
Secondly, even if you have 1 or 2 hours playback left, the NBJ will consider itself in low battery mode and refuse to save any setting.
Third, I encoded all my mp3 at > 192Kb/s. The UI will then be incredibly slow, and often you think you selected a song, but the NJB will play another. Even more, the volume will refuse to work correctly under heavy load.
The UI is really NOT userfriendly and could be improved a lot. No easy way to just play one song you want or remove a song for the queue without fiddling with all buttons (it's ok once you have memorized all the button to press in which order).
But the most annoying thing is that all tracks are sorted on ID3 tags and there is no way to sort them by directories. So I get a lot of problems with my songs that don't have correct album/genre/artist tags (I have a big album called *UNKNOWN* on my NJB). Some songs just go into the wrong album in the NJB because of a wrong ID3 tag.
NB: I just installed firmware 2.56.
The improvements are that you finally have fast forward as advertised. Before this FW if you listened to a mixed album, you would have a 2 second silence before the next song was loaded. Now I just get an annoying *click*. The unit still crashes at least once a day., Creative refuses to acknowledge the problem.
Hi, I Know most of you Linux guy are not concerned, but what is the compatibility with X11 ? I run a Solaris box, and there are already so many linux software hardly protable on other Unices.