Paranoia & Technology News Comments 2006-08-09
I don’t think i will buy any legal Blue-Ray Movies. I will just download the pirated cracked versions off of Emule. The exploit in the third article is crude and not a true crack but it could be used to rip a whole move. I would want at most two steps (rip/DCSS/concatinate to a single MPeg2 then encode to xvid) for ripping. One step on-the-fly is better (MP3). They do have one-step on-the-fly ripping and encoding for the DVDs but the audio is choppy on the XVID so you still have to use the two-step method.
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I’m using Emule anyway. I don’t care if you’re picking up stray broadcasts (though it may be different if they are intentional). If you hate it so much, launch your nukes, but you can be assured you puny little island will become cratered radioactive glass in the retaliation (if at least some of them make it through launh and detonate on arrival / are not rusted out duds). Cubans are downloading pirated Moviez and Bookz from all over the world on Emule on their black-market internet connections. If you don’t like, go nuke america, nuke the world, or go massacre your own people, or just eat it and accept the invading freedom. And thats the same for Tunisia, Iran, China, Zimbabwe, and other tyrannical african and southeast asian goverments. Cuba bans all internet usage and computer ownership for its citizens. Internet is limited to tourists in monitored cyber-cafes, goverment officials, and goverment-favorees. Computer equipment is limited to goverment officials and certain communist-run organizations.
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Thats nice. Force me to pay for proprietary crap and DRM as a part of my new car. At least Honda hasn’t bought into it yet. At least an IPOD can at least will play DRM-cracked AC-3 and plain MP3 files. I will never buy from Itunes. Hopefully they won’t charge a fortune for it if the car maker leaves it as an option. Generic laptop-hard drive USB-OTG MP3 players are really cheap. That’s what I prefer to buy.
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They hacked around the unsigned driver filter of Windows Vista? Who cares??? It costs $20,000 plus and requires a crapload of red tape to get a driver signed. I’d rather hack. If they plug this hole, another will be found or created, as there is more than just hardcore crinimal motivation to crack this. Microsoft is doing this ’security’ for the ’signing’ licensing money than actual security. The security part is just a coincidence and a part of their propaganda program to get more $20,000-$100,000 driver signing clients.
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I might be willing to pay taxes for a free wi-fi in my city. Spokane has free Wi-Fi though the free access has a 2-hour per day limit. You can pay $7 or $8 to get unlimited access for a day. Don’t use Emule in the Spokane hotzone because the because both you and the police are in the same dynamic IP pool, and thus the entire spokane hotzone is on BlueTack’s blacklist and you will loose connectivity with about a third of the Emule clients (Yes only a quarter to a third of Emule Users have populated IP-blocklists and only a fraction of that keeps it up to date). Plus Its a Low-ID (no incoming connections), bad for releasers but only a nuisances for leechers. A $2 daily / $10 weekly access fee and a 100MB per day bandwidth limit (though I can easily go over this without Emule) may be reasonable for a subsidized Wi-Fi.
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WGA is a load of crap. Windoze from Emule with integrated keygens and activation cracks passes WGA. So if M$ tagged you as a pirate, go download windoze XP from Emule and you become a real pirate, but not tagged! I don’t remember which of the arhives do this though. It is possible that the activation crack can ‘crack’ WGA too, but its probably just a keygen that produces keys that match the windows licensing category and license package (if VLK).
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Wikipedia is already pretty good. I won’t want to give up the free-for-all environment for ‘britannica quality’. A lot of the science articles go far more hardcore than Encyclopedia Britinnica will ever go. If there was a BPAA that was as nasty of the RIAA, WikiPedia would be getting sued already because with or without copyright infringement, it makes me want to buy less science books because I just don’t need them no more 
Its better just to donate to the Wikipedia.
