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Submission + - Apple DMCAs IpodHash project (bluwiki.com)

Submitted by TRS-80 on Thursday November 20, 2008 @01:05AM

TRS-80 writes: Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but weren't successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps like Songbird and Banshee from talking to iPods/iPhones. BTW, don't tell Apple, but the project uses a wiki, so the old page versions from before the takedown are still there.

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Comment Re:Demand (Score 1) 588

by RML on Sunday October 26, 2008 @01:16PM (#25518461) Attached to: Why are oil prices dropping?

You're confusing speculation on futures contracts with speculation on actual items.

Take the case of tulips. Speculators buy physical tulip bulbs and hoard them, driving the price up, causing more people to buy tulip bulbs, etc.

The same thing happened in the housing market - people were buying houses, not to use or rent them, but just to resell them later.

For that to happen in oil, speculators would have to actually buy oil and sit on it waiting for prices to go up. But for the most part, the speculators never actually touched a drop of oil. They bought futures contracts, and resold them before they came due. They weren't actually taking the oil off the market, so they couldn't cause a bubble.

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Submission + - Scientology Legal Machine starts on Wikileaks! (wikileaks.org) 3

Submitted by

Freedom

on Sunday April 06, 2008 @05:27PM

Freedom writes: "http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_collected_Operating_Thetan_documents

Wikileaks is reporting that The Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), "the owner of the confidential Advanced Technology of the Scientology religion and the holder of exclusive rights under the copyrights applicable to the Advanced Technology materials." has sent it's first legal threat to Wikileaks, demanding that they remove the material on the grounds of Copyright held in the United States.

This is the response all critics were expecting of the Church of Scientology, who's constant attack and litigation strategy still does not change in the era of the Streisand Effect.

The RTC requests that Wikileaks

preserve any and all documents pertaining to this
matter and this customer, including, but not limited to, logs, data
entry sheets, applications — electronic or otherwise, registrations
forms, billings statements or invoices, computer print-outs, disks,
hard drives, etc.

Join the campaign against the oppressive totalitarian pyramid business posing as religion on enturbulation dot org."

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Feed New York Times: In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Friday December 21, 2007 @04:52PM

In an unusual W.T.O. ruling, Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States as part of a dispute over online gambling.

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Feed New York Times: In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Friday December 21, 2007 @04:13PM

In an unusual W.T.O. ruling, Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States as part of a dispute over online gambling.

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Feed New York Times: Digital Actors in ‘Beowulf’ Are Just Uncanny (nytimes.com) 1

From feed by nytfeed on Monday November 19, 2007 @02:33AM

The computer-animated movie “Beowulf” uses a new technique to capture performances by famous actors -- with some not-so-pleasing results.

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Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters 352

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 19, 2007 @02:23AM from the hard-to-get-your-jpop-fix-without-it dept.

SailorSpork writes "According to a thread on the forums of AnimeSuki, a popular anime bittorent index site, Comcast has begun sending DCMA letters to customers downloading unlicensed fan-subtitled anime shows via bittorrent. By 'unlicensed', they mean that no english language company has the rights to it. The letters are claiming that the copyright holder or an authorized agent are making the infringement claims, though usually these requests are also sent to the site itself rather that individual downloaders. My question is have they really been in contact with Japanese anime companies, or is this another scare tactic by Comcast to try and reduce the bandwidth use of their heavier customers now that their previous tactics have come under legal fire?"

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