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DRM made easy… What is Digital Rights Management?

February 20th, 2007 Arun Manivannan 1 comment

I want to watch an Egyptian movie for my Middle Eastern studies class. But it is region coded not to play on my DVD player, in an effort to stop piracy. Now I have to hack my DVD player and break the law to get it to play. The movie isn’t released in the U.S. This is the only version that was ever published. Since it isn’t published in the US, and it’s for academic purposes, I can rip it make copies for my classmates. That’s fair use.  But since I have to break the DRM to copy it — I’ve broken the law anyway.

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Most ridiculous 404 error pages

February 20th, 2007 Arun Manivannan No comments

I really dont know how people find time for designing all these pages.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/error.html

http://web.archive.org

and my personal favourite

http://jbaber.freeshell.org/404

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