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Submission + - MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @12:24PM

Billosaur writes: "Found via BoingBoing, Major League Baseball has just strengthened the case against DRM. If you downloaded videos of baseball games from MLB.com before 2006, apparently they no longer work and you are out of luck. MLB.com, sometime during 2006, changed their DRM system. Result: game videos purchased before that time will now no longer work, as the previous DRM system is no longer supported. When the video is played, apparently the MLB.com servers are contacted and a license obtained to verify the authenticity of the video; this is done by a web link. That link no longer exists, and so now the videos will no longer play, even though the MLB FAQ says that a license is only obtained once and will not need to be re-obtained. The blogger who is reporting this contacted MLB technical support, only to be told there are no refunds due to this problem."

Submission + - AntiVirus Products fail to find Simple IE malware (beskerming.com) 4

Submitted by

SkiifGeek

on Monday October 29, 2007 @03:46AM

SkiifGeek writes: "Didier Stevens recently took a closer look at some Internet Explorer malware that he had uncovered and found that most antivirus products that it was tested against (courtesy of VirusTotals) failed to identify the malware through one of the most basic and straight forward obfuscation techniques — the null-byte. With enough null-bytes between each character of code, it is possible to fool all antivirus products (though additional software will trap it), yet Internet Explorer was quite happy to render the code.

Whose responsibility is it to fix this behaviour? Both the antivirus / antimalware companies and Microsoft's IE team have something to answer for."

Submission + - Anti-science people cannot use technology?

Submitted by VincenzoRomano on Thursday May 10, 2007 @10:03AM

VincenzoRomano writes: I'm wondering whether the low and slow penetration of technology in the USA can be explained with anti-science behaviours and beliefs like creationism.
To cut short a quite longer story, almost all current technology has been thought, designed and built thanks to the Science and its scientifc method.
If you refuse the latter, maybe, you are not willing nor can use the former. Unless you are going to selectively negate the science, which in my opinion makes even less sense.
Are the USA headed towards a technology regression era?
What'd be the Slashdotters opinion?

Submission + - Microsoft is Screwing Up Live on Vista

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @10:01AM

mikemuch writes: "Jason Cross backs up an argument that Microsoft is talking the talk but not walking the walk in saying it considers the PC gaming platform just as important as its Xbox consoles. Cross's screed on ExtremeTech focuses mostly on the OS vendor's Live Anywhere initiative, which is supposed to let gamers connect and play whether they're using a PC, a console, or a mobile device. He points out that zero game publishers aside from Microsoft itself have joined the program and even the Microsoft games are stale compared with what they're releasing for Xbox 360. What's worse is that they're charging for capabilities that have up to now been free — like voice chat and multiplayer achievements."

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