Your best bet would be to build a (somewhat) working prototype and present it to all layers of management simultaneously - that way, no one person can kill the project.
While that might work, it's also an excellent way to make enemies of people in your chain of command who can make your life hell and/or make you go away.
That doesn't benefit the owner that wants to modify his binary to cheat--it benefits those running the game and, indirectly, the other players. So he's actually helped bolster the point of the post he's replying to.
If you want to control information, don't publish it--especially on the Internet. If I ran across a DRMd paper like you described, and I gave a darn about its content, I'd take screen shots, OCR it, and put it on Freenet.
No kidding. That, and I've enough emulators and archived "content" that I could do something different with my computer every day for the rest of my life without an internet connection. And that's not even counting the occasional creative spark that could lead to writing some code.
While the net is a great resource, and it's easy to delude oneself into believing that it's the font of human knowledge, it is by no means indispensible.
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We're not talking about "favorable Google PageRank" here, we're talking about suppression of legitimate search results.
I wouldn't bet the farm on that. In the event of a "media crackdown," Red Book CDs will likely not play on new hardware.
American Express offeres one-use card numbers through its Private Payments program, also (no direct link, sorry).
While that might work, it's also an excellent way to make enemies of people in your chain of command who can make your life hell and/or make you go away.
. . . like government documents, it might as well *not* be open source.
The same applies to Win2K SP3. Is there actually a safe version of 32-bit Windows to run, really?
Naw. We've all got local copies.
. . . blinking "FREE SPEECH" on the website Miss Whore Vermont's attorneys say is illegal to link to. My damn irony meter is pegged.
That doesn't benefit the owner that wants to modify his binary to cheat--it benefits those running the game and, indirectly, the other players. So he's actually helped bolster the point of the post he's replying to.
Not in theory. A trusted system could work as you describe. But it won't.
Already yanked--403, and Google's cache returns a blank page. But it's still at the Wayback Machine, for the moment.
Nowhere, until an administration is elected that isn't going to take bribes and let MS off with a wrist-slap. I wouldn't hold my breath.
If you want to control information, don't publish it--especially on the Internet. If I ran across a DRMd paper like you described, and I gave a darn about its content, I'd take screen shots, OCR it, and put it on Freenet.
While the net is a great resource, and it's easy to delude oneself into believing that it's the font of human knowledge, it is by no means indispensible.