Category: Social issues
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Free movies
The Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Thanks to the efforts of a few half-mad half-genial men, The Internet Archive is attempting to archive all the contents of the world wide web. This led to the creation of an exceptional hardware/software combination (for example, there are hundreds of Terabytes of memory online). While they had…
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New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
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Download others – legally
Music friends, noise friends, sound friends, ear sportsmen and sportswomen, here you will not need Kazaa, eDonkey, eMule, BitTorrent, or soulseek; In short, no P2P or Warez wbe site, your old wbe browser is enough. You will only find good old links and download and listen to music coded in Ogg or MP3 format, freely…
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No ATI/nVidia board is HDCP compatible
It has just been confirmed that currently the existing graphic cards on the market will not be able to play High-Definition DVD. Even when they display an HDCP-compatible label. As said on Darknet.com:
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DRM creeps into our hard drives
The Trusted Computing Group announced it will be publishing a specification describing how hard disc drives will include Digital Rights Management (DRM) to support the Trusted Platform that is being pushed in preparation of PCs that will be completely secured against free flow of information and to avoid hackers and pirates to steal information. This…
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Trusted Computing Platform – Not for the consumer
Trusted Computing Platform is an initiative that is going to help the media companies (music, movies, etc.) securing the media they sell in a strong way. Essentially, it’s intent is to keep everything encrypted to avoid users to have a direct access to it. This approach promises to stomp out pirates. The problem is that,…
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1 Million Free and Legal Music Tracks
After all, it’s not only a matter of downloading a lot of MP3’s from the web. Sometimes, if you avoid the top-50 list of songs, you could be finding a lot of tracks that will be satisfying your thirst for music in a legal way: Many artists offer their music for free and this is…
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Official: US girls are easy…
US girls are easy to date online! At least, that is what is told by The Register. Don’t miss that special issue article for Valentine’s day. I thought this one was for you, Frank 😉