Bunch of morons adding up layers and calling them dimensions.
"ooooh I have just entered the fifth dimension of my office - er - I mean the fifth floor"
What about the others out there still running windows 2k? Vista is too far off... and too expensive. Linux seems to look better and better with each PR release from Microsoft.
Look Out, Hollywood!
Breaking The Law
I'm gonna preface this by saying that I love Apple and their products and I hate the RIAA and their shortsightedness. My only complaint with Apple is the restrictive DRM built into iTunes Music Store songs (also, those new G5s could be a little cheaper).
In protest, I've committed a real crime and documented the entire process. But it shouldn't be that way and that's why I've done it. Come and get me, Apple! Come and get me, RIAA!
It all started with a free song code from the Pepsi iTunes promotion. I tilted several Pepsi bottles at the local Ralphs (just look for random letters under the cap), found me a winner and scored a free song.
You may not know this, but there are several tracks that you can buy from that iTunes Music Store that consist of nothing more than total silence.
Here's one from Ciccone Youth (a Sonic Youth side project):
So I bought it.
Then, I wanted to play this song on another device other than my iPod (I own a Creative MuVo TX MP3 Player). No go. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) makes it impossible to transfer the song to my other MP3 player unless I go through some ridiculous steps which involve burning the purchased song to a CD and then ripping it. This causes a noticeable loss of sound quality due to the song being recompressed. Totally unacceptable. I want pure silence.
So I stripped the DRM using JHymn, a cross-platform application that unlocks your DRM'ed songs and keeps the original's sound quality. This is absolutely, positively illegal according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
One law broken, one to go.
One file is legal, the other one is definitely not. Can you spot the one that'll get me in trouble? I'll give you a hint: it's the one without the little lock over its icon.
There's just one law left to break. I'm offering this very file for download here on my website. So go ahead, download it (1.1 MB) and break the law with me. Right click, save as, and crank it up on your favorite portable electronic music player.
If this little stunt gets me in trouble, you'll be the first to know.
You can help stop the RIAA and their nonsense at Downhill Battle.
Find out more about protecting your digital rights online at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website.
Silence is golden. Get involved.
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1. G Says:
February 17th, 2005 at 4:51 am
I feel like I'm making a difference.
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Anybody able to see them yet? - I printed a page on a xerox 7700 and scanned it into PShop - Checked the blue channel and it looks like a set of verticle alligned alternating columns (apx 20-30 pix apart) of dots apx 3-6 pixals each of a yellow value...
I have only had good experiences when you do a clean install of 1.0... I kept running into stability issues when I tried to upgrade - maybe some extentions are the problem...
-jh
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Bunch of morons adding up layers and calling them dimensions. "ooooh I have just entered the fifth dimension of my office - er - I mean the fifth floor"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm Unfortunately it seems it is only audio and limited to the UK.
What about the others out there still running windows 2k? Vista is too far off... and too expensive. Linux seems to look better and better with each PR release from Microsoft.
Filters for your outlets... And I thought DSL was bad. -jh
If MXSinc gets Slashdotted - they will go broke due to bandwidth overages.
Look Out, Hollywood! Breaking The Law I'm gonna preface this by saying that I love Apple and their products and I hate the RIAA and their shortsightedness. My only complaint with Apple is the restrictive DRM built into iTunes Music Store songs (also, those new G5s could be a little cheaper). In protest, I've committed a real crime and documented the entire process. But it shouldn't be that way and that's why I've done it. Come and get me, Apple! Come and get me, RIAA! It all started with a free song code from the Pepsi iTunes promotion. I tilted several Pepsi bottles at the local Ralphs (just look for random letters under the cap), found me a winner and scored a free song. You may not know this, but there are several tracks that you can buy from that iTunes Music Store that consist of nothing more than total silence. Here's one from Ciccone Youth (a Sonic Youth side project): So I bought it. Then, I wanted to play this song on another device other than my iPod (I own a Creative MuVo TX MP3 Player). No go. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) makes it impossible to transfer the song to my other MP3 player unless I go through some ridiculous steps which involve burning the purchased song to a CD and then ripping it. This causes a noticeable loss of sound quality due to the song being recompressed. Totally unacceptable. I want pure silence. So I stripped the DRM using JHymn, a cross-platform application that unlocks your DRM'ed songs and keeps the original's sound quality. This is absolutely, positively illegal according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). One law broken, one to go. One file is legal, the other one is definitely not. Can you spot the one that'll get me in trouble? I'll give you a hint: it's the one without the little lock over its icon. There's just one law left to break. I'm offering this very file for download here on my website. So go ahead, download it (1.1 MB) and break the law with me. Right click, save as, and crank it up on your favorite portable electronic music player. If this little stunt gets me in trouble, you'll be the first to know. You can help stop the RIAA and their nonsense at Downhill Battle. Find out more about protecting your digital rights online at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website. Silence is golden. Get involved. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 17th, 2005 at 12:43 am and is filed under Apple, Hack, Free Stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. One Response to 'Breaking The Law' 1. G Says: February 17th, 2005 at 4:51 am I feel like I'm making a difference. Leave a Comment
Anybody able to see them yet? - I printed a page on a xerox 7700 and scanned it into PShop - Checked the blue channel and it looks like a set of verticle alligned alternating columns (apx 20-30 pix apart) of dots apx 3-6 pixals each of a yellow value...
-jh
I have only had good experiences when you do a clean install of 1.0... I kept running into stability issues when I tried to upgrade - maybe some extentions are the problem... -jh