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2005 – In an effort to curb piracy, record companies began putting copy protection on the CD’s themselves. The electronic marking would cause CD’s to error out if they tried to copy. Unfortunately this idea was riddled with problems. Some players couldn’t read the disks, other people would find ways around the copy protection, such as different brand drives. However, it was found that the XCP copy protection standard became a backdoor for hackers as viruses could be introduced through the software.
The announcement came ten days after Sony had secretly put this system on the shelves.
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- Remembrance of Veterans on Vetrans Day / WWI Memorial Day
- IBM 2980 Financial terminal
- The first OLPC order is placed
- Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Icahn debauchery cost $73 million.
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No Comments »You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…”
Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just a bad product. Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see if we cannot repeat these errors again.
Oh yeah, why 16? Well because we could.
The Computer Watch: Whether it was the Ruputer, the MSN Direct ‘Smart’ Watches, the Timex Data Link Watch or another gadget watch – BTW – I remember having a “Transformers watch”. It was awesome!
Still, the Dick Tracey style communication watches, the “Computer on a wrist”, never really hit it off. I even remember a watch that gave you directions. You would put in the paper tape and turn a little dial to indicate where you are and where you are going.
2 Comments »One year in jail and fines. Read the full story, including a discussion of the larger legal implications, here.
The four founders of The Pirate Bay, an online site for free sharing of music and films, were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each.Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem received their sentences in Stockholm today, according to a district court statement. The court said the defendants will have to pay compensation and damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million), compared with the more than 100 million kronor claimed by prosecutors.
Jeff’s Thoughts:
This was the expected verdict and I agree with it. While privacy does come into play here, I think the Pirate Bay could have done things to curb piracy. It’s a touchy subject, but Pirate Bay could have monitored downloads on it’s own and given notice to those who were breaking the law.
If you had an establishment and you allowed people to come in and play Russian Roulette, expect to see some jail time when the cops shut your shop down.
They got off easy with 1 year and only 3.6 million. The next site to do that probably won’t be so lucky. Hopefully they won’t shut down the Torrent site, but instead get someone in there to take over, create a content checking system and block those items deemed illegal to redistribute. After all, we still need good Torrent sites for LEGAL content.
1 Comment »I don’t do music file sharing. Getting more music than I already have doesn’t interest me, but the Pirate Bay trial certainly has much larger implications for contemporary copyright enforcement across the board.
Read the full story here. See the Pirate Bay Wikipedia entry here.
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