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TiVo Tells You How To Defeat Their DRM To Keep You From Canceling

Want to cancel your TiVo? When you call to tell them about it, they might just try to teach you how to defeat their DRM in order to keep you as a customer. That’s what happened to Tino, and he wrote all about it….

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Seeing Yellow

You probably didn’t realize that many color laser printers embed tiny yellow dots on each printed page. These tiny yellow dots amount to a “serial number” for each printer. Why would a printer manufacturer embed such a tracking system without the purchasers knowledge? Seeing Yellow [http://www.seeingyellow.com/

Study: P2P effect on legal music sales “not statistically distinguishable from zero”

According to an article [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070212-8813.html]by Ken Fisher over at Ars Technica, “A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music,

AACS Hack Blamed on Bad Player Implementation

Ars Technica article. According to a statement from the AACS LA, AACS has not been seriously compromised. read more [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070126-8710.html] | digg story [http://digg.com/tech_news/AACS_Hack_Blamed_on_Bad_Player_Implementation]