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MicroChrome

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Interesting Story... Digg website doing flip flopping!

Users take back website after accounts and information get deleted and Now have been restored....

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I wonder if Anandtech would protect it's users?
 
I was wondering how long it would take this to get posted here...

Seriously, and I say this as someone who has no problem with artists and moviemakers getting paid, the DRM folks should just give it up...it's just not going to work. No matter what you come up with, some bored hacker will figure it out and release a tool that everyone and their brother can use.
 
Originally posted by: MicroChrome
Interesting Story... Digg website doing flip flopping!

Users take back website after accounts and information get deleted and Now have been restored....

Text

I wonder if Anandtech would protect it's users?
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Good question time will tell as the U.S. Government gets more restrictive everyday.
 
Originally posted by: smack Down
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2041609
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Yeah, I know about that...I'm just not sure what the big deal is. Actually, I know EXACTLY what the big deal is, AT doesn't want to get sued...and rightly so. The point is really that companies can use their lawyers to threaten anyone that says anything they disagree with. That number is almost certainly legal to post, but our stupid legal system allows he with the most money to make his own rules.
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: smack Down
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2041609
Do NOT post the code in this thread, or anywhere on these forums.


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Yeah, I know about that...I'm just not sure what the big deal is. Actually, I know EXACTLY what the big deal is, AT doesn't want to get sued...and rightly so. The point is really that companies can use their lawyers to threaten anyone that says anything they disagree with. That number is almost certainly legal to post, but our stupid legal system allows he with the most money to make his own rules.
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I have no idea what the DMCA says is illegal with respect to the code, but I don't see how MPAA could expect third parties to censor the code. AT has no way to know if the code is real and any sequence of 8 letters could contain the code
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
I was wondering how long it would take this to get posted here...

Seriously, and I say this as someone who has no problem with artists and moviemakers getting paid, the DRM folks should just give it up...it's just not going to work. No matter what you come up with, some bored hacker will figure it out and release a tool that everyone and their brother can use.
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I don't have that kind of talent, but I am the tinkering type. It's motivation to do something that may be an enjoyable challenge. This is where abnormalities we're ruining kids' (I mean anonymous future consumers) heads over shine. Saying it's some bored hacker completely misrepresents the kind of personality that takes on such tasks, and only bolsters the common, "they hate us 'cause they hate us," style image.

?I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.? -Nikola Tesla

Great inventor and idealist, painter, philosopher, poet, kid building a dam, or a guy with an axe to grind breaking some encryption scheme--the feeling's the same.
 
You guys missed the tshirts that were on-sale last week at shirtaday.com... They had "the code" printed on the front. I ordered mine in navy blue!

F$%# the MPAA.
 
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