You know, it's not like iTunes is doings its thing without going through the RIAA. iTunes offers the service it does because the RIAA allows it. The RIAA is not fighting paid digital downloads. On the contrary, with all the new services springing up, it would seem that they're supporting it.
Oh, I forgot. They're one of those groups Slashdot doesn't like. Any excuse to bash them, however illogical, right?
Why oh why has everyone stopped making portable mp3 players with IEEE-1394/FireWire/i.Link? My only computer here (a laptop) is rather new, but it only has USB1.1 and 1394. As long as I have the 1394 port I'm not going to suffer slow USB1.1 transfer speeds.
And I know the iPod has it, but it's out of my price range... I have looked for a while and not found a single other alternative. Has anyone else?
Software should be treated differently than automobiles. Because it is very different than automobiles! [insert expletive and aggrivated shake of head]
Actually, more than 50% of the daily visitors here are using Internet Explorer. Really. Just check out that IRC log that's in the interviews section.. it's somewhere there..
It's just that there are a large number of Linux advocates who are very noisy here.
The page was changed to make it less obvious, and perhaps trick less-savvy users into downloading adware. But as you can see, 'Download the DivX codec (no cost)' is still available right under that. I downloaded it recently; it still includes the basic codec and DivX Player 2.0 just as always.
Calm down! First of all, if I understand correctly, this exploit takes a valid PSX game, stops it from booting, then loads 'any piece of code' _right off the memory card_. It does not provide for any sort of disc swap. This means you can not use it to load any game which the PS2 would not normally load; you can only load an.elf (I think) file which is _on the memory card_.
Meaning this is only useful for _small_ homebrew apps.
Second of all, it is unlikely this will ever be expanded to allow loading out-of-region/copied games. Sony uses a special copy-protection trick... as far as I know it involves a tiny sector in the beginning of a disc which has a checksum of zero. Inside this sector there is the data containing region information (should be impossible to contain any data if the checksum is zero, but it does). CD burners 'correct' this sector by writing the actual checksum, and hence PSX/PS2 games cannot be copied correctly. When you insert any disc into a PSX or PS2, the unmodified hardware checks that sector to see if the checksum is zero and if the region code is correct, and refuses to read any further data, _no matter what_, if that sector isn't just right. A mod chip works by injecting the correct data into the CPU at the right time.
This means, even though you could use the exploit to read abritrary data off something other than the disc the console was going to read from, you can't read it from another disc: if you eject that valid disc and put in another, the PS2 is going to check that special sector. Unless I misunderstand something, this exploit _does not_ address that, and so you can only load code off a memory card. Maybe someone will come out with a way to load stuff off a hard drive with it, but it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load stuff off a different (invalid) disc.
I should also point out that the terms 'signed' and 'unsigned' are possibly incorrect for this sort of thing, as the copy protection isn't really in the form of an encrypted key, per se... just a crazy sector containing simple data, with a checksum of zero.
This is how it has been explained to me over the years by a variety of people and is AFAIK the generally accepted understanding of the Sony copy protection method. I have never worked for Sony so I cannot verify it. If you have any corrections here, feel free to speak up:)
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Oh.. so the 2038 problem is nearly fixed? So this John Titor guy is a fake, right?
Whew!
How can they 'buy' the RIAA? It's an organisation, made up of large record labels like Sony... unless I missed something...
Where can I buy one of these?!
Preferrably online.
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That's 'Linuxii.'
You know, it's not like iTunes is doings its thing without going through the RIAA. iTunes offers the service it does because the RIAA allows it. The RIAA is not fighting paid digital downloads. On the contrary, with all the new services springing up, it would seem that they're supporting it.
Oh, I forgot. They're one of those groups Slashdot doesn't like. Any excuse to bash them, however illogical, right?
Um... been losing any hair recently? You might want to consider replacing that microwave o_O
Actually, it's probably just that the thing is drawing a lot of power and is on the same circuit as your TV.
Why oh why has everyone stopped making portable mp3 players with IEEE-1394/FireWire/i.Link? My only computer here (a laptop) is rather new, but it only has USB1.1 and 1394. As long as I have the 1394 port I'm not going to suffer slow USB1.1 transfer speeds.
And I know the iPod has it, but it's out of my price range... I have looked for a while and not found a single other alternative. Has anyone else?
How could they do that, really? Aren't the ships made of materials that don't exist ('yet')?
Software should be treated differently than automobiles. Because it is very different than automobiles! [insert expletive and aggrivated shake of head]
Your analogy, sir, is faulty!
Actually, more than 50% of the daily visitors here are using Internet Explorer. Really. Just check out that IRC log that's in the interviews section.. it's somewhere there..
:)
It's just that there are a large number of Linux advocates who are very noisy here.
Oh, by the way: I like Windows.
(I really do.)
In Soviet Russia, web content pays for YOU! ...hey, wait... that's not such a bad idea...
Really. There are. I buy a CD now and then and often find myself enjoying many of the songs on them.
Actually, it's DivX Player 2.1. And how silly of me to think I'd beat the ./ hordes in pointing out the article's error :P
The page was changed to make it less obvious, and perhaps trick less-savvy users into downloading adware. But as you can see, 'Download the DivX codec (no cost)' is still available right under that. I downloaded it recently; it still includes the basic codec and DivX Player 2.0 just as always.
Calm down! First of all, if I understand correctly, this exploit takes a valid PSX game, stops it from booting, then loads 'any piece of code' _right off the memory card_. It does not provide for any sort of disc swap. This means you can not use it to load any game which the PS2 would not normally load; you can only load an .elf (I think) file which is _on the memory card_.
:)
Meaning this is only useful for _small_ homebrew apps.
Second of all, it is unlikely this will ever be expanded to allow loading out-of-region/copied games. Sony uses a special copy-protection trick... as far as I know it involves a tiny sector in the beginning of a disc which has a checksum of zero. Inside this sector there is the data containing region information (should be impossible to contain any data if the checksum is zero, but it does). CD burners 'correct' this sector by writing the actual checksum, and hence PSX/PS2 games cannot be copied correctly. When you insert any disc into a PSX or PS2, the unmodified hardware checks that sector to see if the checksum is zero and if the region code is correct, and refuses to read any further data, _no matter what_, if that sector isn't just right. A mod chip works by injecting the correct data into the CPU at the right time.
This means, even though you could use the exploit to read abritrary data off something other than the disc the console was going to read from, you can't read it from another disc: if you eject that valid disc and put in another, the PS2 is going to check that special sector. Unless I misunderstand something, this exploit _does not_ address that, and so you can only load code off a memory card. Maybe someone will come out with a way to load stuff off a hard drive with it, but it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load stuff off a different (invalid) disc.
I should also point out that the terms 'signed' and 'unsigned' are possibly incorrect for this sort of thing, as the copy protection isn't really in the form of an encrypted key, per se... just a crazy sector containing simple data, with a checksum of zero.
This is how it has been explained to me over the years by a variety of people and is AFAIK the generally accepted understanding of the Sony copy protection method. I have never worked for Sony so I cannot verify it. If you have any corrections here, feel free to speak up