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Software
Windows 7 Hacked (Again) For Keyless Activation
10:00AM Chris Jacob | Lo! Yet another Windows 7 activation hack appears. This one’s a little more creative in that it doesn’t require an OEM key at all, and instead bypasses the verification DLL completely. More »
Entertainment
Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies On SD Cards From Kiosks!
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program in the US that will load DRM’d movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More »
Software
Windows Mobile Marketplace App Copy Protection Is A Joke
2:20AM Matt Buchanan | According to a developer on XDA, the already slack copy protection for Windows Marketplace is a complete joke — with a “hunch” and five minutes, he was able to get around it, creating unlimited copies of paid apps. More »
Music
SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Keeps The Bizarre SlotRadio Dream Alive
11:04PM John Herrman | Remember slotRadio, SanDisk’s anachronistic plan to load microSD cards with sometimes DRMed music, as if they were CDs? It was strange! Also strange: SanDisk still believes in it, and they’ve even produced a second, fuller-featured player called the Clip+. More »
Entertainment
10:10AM Nick Broughall | Last week I picked up a copy of Zack and Miri Make a Porno on Blu-ray. Part of me really wanted to see it, being a bit of a Kevin Smith fan, but part of me was just intrigued by the big sticker on the front that said “INCLUDES DIGITAL COPY”. It was the first movie I’d seen that sticker on ever, so I desperately wanted to discover what the digital copy was like. Turns out, it’s a clusterf%&k of complete failure that could only have been thought up by demons in the seventh level of Hell. More »
Why Are Movie Studios So F%&king Stupid?
10:10AM Nick Broughall | Last week I picked up a copy of Zack and Miri Make a Porno on Blu-ray. Part of me really wanted to see it, being a bit of a Kevin Smith fan, but part of me was just intrigued by the big sticker on the front that said “INCLUDES DIGITAL COPY”. It was the first movie I’d seen that sticker on ever, so I desperately wanted to discover what the digital copy was like. Turns out, it’s a clusterf%&k of complete failure that could only have been thought up by demons in the seventh level of Hell. More »
Gadgets
Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User The Books He’s Paid For
3:30AM Jack Loftus | Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous. More »
Music
Virgin To Offer Unlimited DRM-Free MP3s For A Flat Monthly Rate
4:45AM Adam Frucci | British cable operator Virgin Media is set to offer up an unlimited music download subscription program with Universal that would give you access to DRM-free MP3s as long as you pay a set monthly fee. More »
Entertainment
Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good In Theory
3:00AM Matt Buchanan | The idea behind Blu-ray Managed Copy sounds good—it’ll let you make one full-res backup copy of a Blu-ray disc, and studios are required to support it beginning next year. But needing brand new hardware is just the start. More »
Music
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
5:20AM John Herrman | Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we’ve been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we’ve done it to date: More »
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