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The old hacker motto used to be “information wants to be free”. This was the driving philosophy of the 80’s and the 90’s when the Internet was going through it’s awkward onset of puberty, and turbulent teenage years. We currently … Continue reading →

I realized something today – we are in the wrong industry guys! We should all be writing DRM software! I mean, at least in theory. I would never do it because I find the idea of DRM morally reprehensible and … Continue reading →

I need help locating the new heads of the unstoppable hydra that is Bittorrent. Since Demomoid, my primary source of all that is good was shut down again I need new places that have good stuff in high quality and … Continue reading →

If any of you guys thought that UK had a copyright law that is any less retarded than ours, think again. Apparently, over there you can actually go to jail for linking to copyrighted material illegally hosted on a foreign … Continue reading →

Dear Entertainment Industry, If you belong to organization whose name ends in AA, this post is for you. I’m writing this, because I would like to introduce you to this relatively new concept of Internet. You see, this globe spanning … Continue reading →

I talked to several people lately who expressed interest in BioShock. I told them straight up: no matter what you do, don’t buy that shit. If you do, you will just get brutally fucked up the ass by SecuRom, online … Continue reading →

I am impressed! I always thought that you can’t really post a blatant troll in a respectable, renowned, mainstream magazine like NY Times. And yet Mr. Mark Helprin has proved that a crafty writer can sneak a clever troll just … Continue reading →

Leave it to Bush administration to find innovative ways to take away civil liberties of law abiding citizens. Just check out his newest bill – the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007. You read that thing and you get all … Continue reading →

Here is my prediction: HD-DVD format has been broken, and will probably be broken again in the future. I predict that unless someone breaks BlueRay in a similar way really soon, the Sony media disks will fade into obscurity and … Continue reading →

I think everyone knows about this already. And if youd don’t then google fof iTunes and EMI and get yourself up to date. I’m to lazy at the moment to find you a link. When I first head about it … Continue reading →

I would like to congratulate RIAA on winning the 2007’s Worst Company in America Award. They have managed to beat Halliburton which is an incredible accomplishment right there. I wonder if they will finally get the message… Oh wait… I … Continue reading →

I present to you, the Ultimate DRM Buster 2000: photo © me This nifty cable should allow you to copy all the protected music you want. You simply plug in one end to the earphone jack, you plug in the … Continue reading →

It appears that Alex Ionescu cracked the Vista DRM. At least he claims that he did. History likes to repeat itself… This will likely be like DeCSS all over again. DRM is just a flawed idea. Let me explain to … Continue reading →

It seems that isoHunt has been fucked by their ISP. From their website: Update, Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our … Continue reading →

You probably know this already but let me reiterate this for you: The Pirate Bay – a group of Swedish torrent tracker operators, webmasters, and the founders of the first Pirate Party in the world want to buy Sealand – … Continue reading →

My coworker just got a nasty letter from his ISP (optonline) accusing him of copyright infringement. It turns out that his kid got caught downloading some warez from one of the trackers indexed by Torrentspy. Conclusions are simple: someone is … Continue reading →

TVLINKS – an awesome link site was shut down by MPAA and forced to relocate to a server in Netherlands. From their website: TVLINKS has been forced to switch data center’s from MPAA threats. Now we need your help. Please … Continue reading →

You probably heard about CopyBot by now. If you haven’t here is a quick background: CopyBot is a tool that allows you to (as the name suggests) copy any object in Second Life bypassing the built in copy protection features. … Continue reading →

These two short sentences summarize the great potential as well as massive legal confusion surrounding online media: The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their … Continue reading →

User Friendly comic shows us how to defeat Apple’s DRM scheme using a high-tech toolkit: img © User Friendly; click to see the original It’s funny because it’s true. The thing about DRM is that it can never be effective. … Continue reading →

It appears that YouTube is getting worse, and worse. Apparently they have started bulk deleting clips of Comedy Central shows such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park. Heh… Maybe they got scared when Colbert said they owe … Continue reading →

You might be interested to know that instead of tracking real criminals like murderers, rapists, serial killers, child molesters, drug dealers and terrorists most of FBI agents are way to busy chasing after Bitorrent tracker admins. Nothing makes me more … Continue reading →

If you think that being in Boy Scouts will be a good, constructive, fun experience for your kid, you may want to reconsider. Apparently many Boy Scout organizations are simply MPAA and RIAA youth indoctrination groups in which young kids … Continue reading →

If you buy movies and/or music at Amazon, please go and download this awesome [tag]greasemonkey[/tag] script. In the words of the author: When visiting a product page at [tag]Amazon[/tag] this script will detect the ‘label’, ‘studio’ or ‘publisher’ field from … Continue reading →

RIAA just decided to sue LimeWire, heavily leaning on the super-idiotic Grokster ruling. If you don’t remember what the Grokster thing was all about, let me remind you. Remember that one time we were all pissed off, because a bunch … Continue reading →