Category Archives: rights

What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil?

Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by Beanbag

A very entertaining story when the author’s curiosity gets the better of her. I mean, what kind of nanny state am I living in right now? I can’t even buy cold medicine anymore without the government all up in my … Continue reading →

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Criminalising the consumer – where digital rights went wrong

Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 by Beanbag

This article from the Economist touches on a recent case involving fair use and digital rights. Now, if only we could convince companies like Microsoft to stop crippling their products (*cough* Vista *cough*) with draconian DRM measures. IS IT legal … Continue reading →

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Grand Canyon Skywalk is a Ripoff

Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 by Beanbag

Watch out for this scam. Not only do they hike up the price once you are trapped there, they also don’t allow you to take pictures with some flimsy excuse about people dropping their cameras. We walked in to get … Continue reading →

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Meet cGrid, the real-time P2P punisher

Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by Beanbag

A new tool has been announced in the piracy arms race. This tool can be deployed by network administrators to monitor network traffic in order to identify people using P2P services, and can automatically boot them off the network. The … Continue reading →

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Documentary: On Piracy and the Future of Media

Posted on Monday, March 5, 2007 by Beanbag

This looks like an interesting documentary that examines the reality of piracy. You can watch and even download the documentary for free. Each day, millions of youths from Canada and around the world download music and movies off of the … Continue reading →

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Pirates of the Multiplex

Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by Beanbag

Vanity Fair has profiled the popular torrent tracker site, The Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay has now taken careful steps to ensure that any future raids will inflict minimal disruption to the service. “We have divided the servers up geographically—they are … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates on the Future of DRM

Posted on Friday, December 15, 2006 by Beanbag

Bill Gates made some interesting comments regarding DRM during a recent meeting with a group of bloggers. According to TechCrunch: Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate … Continue reading →

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Customer Confidential

Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 by Beanbag

This is an interesting article on those store policies that harass their customers and treat them like criminals, and what you can do about it. If you possess an ounce of personal pride or perhaps two ounces of fortitude, then … Continue reading →

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StarForce Must Die

Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 by Beanbag

The Escapist has written an article on the world’s most hated copy protection. In any forum topic about StarForce, embittered players across the spectrum speak in one voice about crippled operating systems and ruined CD drives. Many players report they … Continue reading →

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Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes

Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 by Beanbag

Freedom to Tinker has an interesting post on how HDCP could be broken. Every new HDCP device is given two things: a secret vector, and an addition rule. The secret vector is a sequence of 40 secret numbers that the … Continue reading →

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