The most exciting MMO news in recent memory for many of us was a Lord of the Rings themed MMORPG. Of course, no MMORPG can be discussed without pointing out the massive World of Warcraft currently shadowing over all games in the genre. Can Tolkein’s hobbits slay the beast that is WoW? Or will they [...]

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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday — at least the third time since 2005 that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country’s dangerous coast.read more | digg story

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Apple doesn’t always get credit for the ruggedness of its products. That might change, after this Brazilian MacBook Pro survived a gunshot during a mugging. It’s fine, and it looks like the latch is in better shape than the one on my PowerBook, so…

There are several other shots through the link. None of them with [...]

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I first heard about this “Display Eater” application on Boing Boing. The short version of the story is that it appeared that if you attempted to pirate the software, it would delete your “home” file on your Mac…essentially destroying your computer.
Not surprisingly, people didn’t take well to this idea, and the backlash for Reverse [...]

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
AACS has already been compromised in at least two widely known ways, after DRM hackers posted on the Doom9 forums methods to retrieve and utilize volume, and later, processing keys to copy every Blu-ray and HD DVD movie released so far. Today a third method has appeared, as poster ATARI Vampire [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
The new Creative Commons 3.0 licenses have shipped! The new licenses seem mostly concerned with housekeeping issues between international versions and clarifying some liability issues. One thing I’m very glad of is that the CC licenses still say that people who redistribute CC-licensed work can’t infect it with DRM.
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(Via Boing Boing.)

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Cory Doctorow:
EMI — having previously floated the idea of releasing its music as DRM-free MP3s — has dropped the other shoe: it won’t consider the move unless it gets some money. Lots and lots of money. So much that no one will say how much.

Which is funny, since removing DRM can only help sell music. [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
OpenCongress.org is a new site that Web 2.0’s the US government, bringing much-needed transparency and accountability to the closed book that is the US Congress. It is the first project of the new Pariticpatory Politics Foundation (founded by the same young geniuses who gave us the Participatory Culture Foundation and its stunning Democracy Internet [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
David sez, “a Mac program called Display Eater that has been set up by its developer to respond to the use of pirated CD keys by ‘erasing something’ — apparently this is, in some instances, the home directory of the infringing Mac. Response over on Versiontracker, amongst other places, has been rather irate [...]

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