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News items of interest related to Hacking.
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
The Butt Ugly Weblog: We lied to you. "In the golden 80s and 90s [the computer industry] told [the entertainment industry] micropayments and content protection would work; that you would be able to charge minuscule amounts of money whenever someone listened to your music or watched your movie. We told you untruths which we well knew would never work - after all, we would've never used them ourselves." I don't think games are a good example of this, considering the escalating copy protection war in that industry. Game publishers tried funky corrupted CDs (the Apple II days all over again) and requiring the CD to be in the drive, so game-playing hackers wrote CD-ROM-drive-emulating device drivers. This merely opened a new front in the kernel, prompting the copy protection systems to install their own device drivers which disable debuggers and other legitimate utilities. Of course any offline system can be cracked, so the game companies are planning to force you to be connected to the Internet to play. [Hack the Planet]
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