1) Find DRM enforcing dll/exe.
2) Reverse engineer the code with Win32 PE Disassembler or any other disassembler.
3) Make a program that would decode the DRMed file using knowledge from (2).
4) Publish code
5) ????
6) Pro^H^H^HGet sued
Actually the versions of IE in XP and Vista are not exactly the same.
They are actually using the same "mshtml.dll" (IE7+ build number matches Vista build, apart from that they are identical). The only diff - i think - is in GUI stuff
I did that last christmas with the xbox 360. Pre-ordered two, one using my name and the other using my gf's and sold them on eBay 2 weeks before the holiday for ££££. BINGO, I made so much I upgraded by PC and is so powerful now I don't even think the PS3 can match it's power and I still have extra for a Wii. Me happy, customer is a happy fool.:D
If you take the number of employees into account then Valve Corp with a little more than 70 employees made $70mil in 2005. That is $10mil per employee. Compare that to the number of human resources involved in the "Titanic" or "Star Wars" and you get a better picture of who's making a more efficient use of human resources.
Two front page articles got pulled off within 10 minutes of being promoted.
Users can easily create email accounts, change their IP address by resetting their router/modem and create accounts in digg to eventually digg their articles.
Non-moderated news never works. Digg _is_ moderated. The poor soles who frequent that site just don't know it. As TFA said, digg.com is more of an editor playground that a democratic proccess of picking news.
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That, i believe, is what people refer to as the digg effect
Isn't DHT advantageous for the network as a whole, distributing the tracking traffic to peers and saving on the bandwidth costs. Why ban a client for being nice to you!
The problem with DHT is that there is no single _unique_ implementation of this. Every client behaves in a different way (I'm talking to you azureus!).
Software theft is bad; so is misstating the evidence
IT SOUNDS too bad to be true; but, then, it might not be true. Up to 35% of all PC software installed in 2004 was pirated, resulting in a staggering $33 billion loss to the industry, according to an annual study released this week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a trade association and lobby group.
Such jaw-dropping figures are regularly cited in government documents and used to justify new laws and tough penalties for pirates--this month in Britain, for example, two people convicted of piracy got lengthy prison sentences, even though they had not sought to earn money. The BSA provided its data. The judge chose to describe the effects of piracy as nothing less than "catastrophic".
Intellectual property
But while the losses due to software copyright violations are large and serious, the crime is certainly not as costly as the BSA portrays. The association's figures rely on sample data that may not be representative, assumptions about the average amount of software on PCs and, for some countries, guesses rather than hard data. Moreover, the figures are presented in an exaggerated way by the BSA and International Data Corporation (IDC), a research firm that conducts the study. They dubiously presume that each piece of software pirated equals a direct loss of revenue to software firms.
To derive its piracy rate, IDC estimates the average amount of software that is installed on a PC per country, using data from surveys, interviews and other studies. That figure is then reduced by the known quantity of software sold per country--a calculation in which IDC specialises. The result: a (supposed) amount of piracy per country. Multiplying that figure by the revenue from legitimate sales thus yields the retail value of the unpaid-for software. This, IDC and BSA claim, equals the amount of lost revenue.
The problem is that the economic impact of global software piracy is far harder to calculate. Some academics have shown that some piracy actually increases software sales, by introducing products to people who would not otherwise become customers. Indeed, Bill Gates chirped in the 1990s that piracy in China was useful to Microsoft, because once the nation was hooked, the software giant would eventually figure out a way to monetise the trend. (Lately Microsoft has kept quiet on this issue.)
The BSA's bold claims are surprising, given that last year the group was severely criticised for inflating its figures to suit its political aims. "Absurd on its face" and "patently obscene" is how Gary Shapiro, boss of the Consumer Electronics Association, another lobby group, describes the new ranking.
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1) Find DRM enforcing dll/exe. 2) Reverse engineer the code with Win32 PE Disassembler or any other disassembler. 3) Make a program that would decode the DRMed file using knowledge from (2). 4) Publish code 5) ???? 6) Pro^H^H^HGet sued
I wish they wrote A ChangeLog.txt like most of the people in the biz.
They are actually using the same "mshtml.dll" (IE7+ build number matches Vista build, apart from that they are identical). The only diff - i think - is in GUI stuff
IE7 RC1 makes more than enough white-space in the beta /. discussion system.
http://img396.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ndsyn9.jp g
my eyes hurt...
Funny thing, I just signed up for checkout with my G Account and all I had to do is specify a different country.
I even tried buying something from Buy.com and got the Oops from Google.
I did that last christmas with the xbox 360. Pre-ordered two, one using my name and the other using my gf's and sold them on eBay 2 weeks before the holiday for ££££. BINGO, I made so much I upgraded by PC and is so powerful now I don't even think the PS3 can match it's power and I still have extra for a Wii. Me happy, customer is a happy fool. :D
If you take the number of employees into account then Valve Corp with a little more than 70 employees made $70mil in 2005. That is $10mil per employee. Compare that to the number of human resources involved in the "Titanic" or "Star Wars" and you get a better picture of who's making a more efficient use of human resources.
Two front page articles got pulled off within 10 minutes of being promoted.
Users can easily create email accounts, change their IP address by resetting their router/modem and create accounts in digg to eventually digg their articles.
Non-moderated news never works. Digg _is_ moderated. The poor soles who frequent that site just don't know it. As TFA said, digg.com is more of an editor playground that a democratic proccess of picking news.
here are two examples from yesterday
Example 1 Example 2Investors aren't happy about this.
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That, i believe, is what people refer to as the digg effect
... you can just buy them!
IBM did it
Google recently did it.
Aparently every major corp does it
I'm quite surprised there is no such poll in /. considering the interest in this topic.
Tatooine. Nice place, a bit too sunny though
Wow, can i work for you?
I feel like throwing up..
Isn't DHT advantageous for the network as a whole, distributing the tracking traffic to peers and saving on the bandwidth costs. Why ban a client for being nice to you!
The problem with DHT is that there is no single _unique_ implementation of this. Every client behaves in a different way (I'm talking to you azureus!).
Wikipedia is not credible as a citation source like other encyclopedias.
Then what is the difference between talking to someone in your car, and talking to someone on a hands free headset?
BSA or just BS?
May 19th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Software theft is bad; so is misstating the evidence
IT SOUNDS too bad to be true; but, then, it might not be true. Up to 35% of all PC software installed in 2004 was pirated, resulting in a staggering $33 billion loss to the industry, according to an annual study released this week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a trade association and lobby group.
Such jaw-dropping figures are regularly cited in government documents and used to justify new laws and tough penalties for pirates--this month in Britain, for example, two people convicted of piracy got lengthy prison sentences, even though they had not sought to earn money. The BSA provided its data. The judge chose to describe the effects of piracy as nothing less than "catastrophic".
Intellectual property
But while the losses due to software copyright violations are large and serious, the crime is certainly not as costly as the BSA portrays. The association's figures rely on sample data that may not be representative, assumptions about the average amount of software on PCs and, for some countries, guesses rather than hard data. Moreover, the figures are presented in an exaggerated way by the BSA and International Data Corporation (IDC), a research firm that conducts the study. They dubiously presume that each piece of software pirated equals a direct loss of revenue to software firms.
To derive its piracy rate, IDC estimates the average amount of software that is installed on a PC per country, using data from surveys, interviews and other studies. That figure is then reduced by the known quantity of software sold per country--a calculation in which IDC specialises. The result: a (supposed) amount of piracy per country. Multiplying that figure by the revenue from legitimate sales thus yields the retail value of the unpaid-for software. This, IDC and BSA claim, equals the amount of lost revenue.
The problem is that the economic impact of global software piracy is far harder to calculate. Some academics have shown that some piracy actually increases software sales, by introducing products to people who would not otherwise become customers. Indeed, Bill Gates chirped in the 1990s that piracy in China was useful to Microsoft, because once the nation was hooked, the software giant would eventually figure out a way to monetise the trend. (Lately Microsoft has kept quiet on this issue.)
The BSA's bold claims are surprising, given that last year the group was severely criticised for inflating its figures to suit its political aims. "Absurd on its face" and "patently obscene" is how Gary Shapiro, boss of the Consumer Electronics Association, another lobby group, describes the new ranking.