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Update on Sony Rootkit

Wednesday, 11. 9. 2005  –  Category: Links, Meetings, Meta, News

First of all…our next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 at 8:00pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel. We (well, I can’t be there, but everyone else) will be discussing the impending lecture, our next demonstration, our newly allocated budget, and the Google Print debate happening on the 17th. Inga is also supposed to talk [...]

Lessig to speak at NYPL on Nov. 17th!

Monday, 11. 7. 2005  –  Category: Meta

All hail teh ph33rl3ss l34dr!!!!! l33t!!

Happy 15th, WWW! and other tales of interest

Sunday, 11. 6. 2005  –  Category: General, Meta, News

“What if the web were created today?” A scary thought.

"I was there…" Podcast

Thursday, 11. 3. 2005  –  Category: Meta

Sean (a once upon FC @ NYU member, and active passivist protestor) and I decided to start a podcast. DIY Culture, right? “Subscribe” to it by using this RSS feed URL in iTunes. Our first episode is also available by here (~70mb mp3), but check out http://iwasthere.fredbenenson.com for the blog and more links. Thanks! Fred

Hollywood tunes into anti-piracy audio signals

Wednesday, 11. 2. 2005  –  Category: General, Media, Meta, News

Here’s something a little different…Hollywood is planning to push for film distributors to embed an inaudible watermark in the soundtracks of films released to theaters. Then, if approved by the DVD Forum, HD DVD players would be required to have a special sensor that listens for the watermark and refuses playback if it is found, [...]

Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Wednesday, 11. 2. 2005  –  Category: General, Media, News

Here is the detailed article about the new DRM Sony is using that I talked about at last night’s meeting: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far For those that weren’t there, it’s about this new DRM software which uses a poorly-designed rootkit to completely mask its presence on your system. Not only [...]

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