I saw this earlier today, when Digg was crashed. Naughty of you to post it, Unca Stevie. I approve, of course.
One more bit of evidence, as if it was needed, that DRM is not only a rotten, selfish idea, but a doomed one.
EDIT: I like the use of a JPEG, incidentally, to defeat the bots scouring the net to find places to send take-down notices to. The horse is out of the barn, guys, and has been for a long time.
The hits on Da Google are now up to 356,000. Horse out of barn? It’s like the shopping industry trying to interdict anyone who talks about the veracity of the Easter Bunny. And those hits don’t include the interesting occurrence of images that incorporate this number. They aren’t Googly but you can see a series of them from this.
I may be obsessing on this but who the heck makes their entire security setup based on one 16 number code that, when it gets out, cannot be unbroken without ruining all the previous disks produced?
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I saw this earlier today, when Digg was crashed. Naughty of you to post it, Unca Stevie. I approve, of course.
One more bit of evidence, as if it was needed, that DRM is not only a rotten, selfish idea, but a doomed one.
EDIT: I like the use of a JPEG, incidentally, to defeat the bots scouring the net to find places to send take-down notices to. The horse is out of the barn, guys, and has been for a long time.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 am
The hits on Da Google are now up to 356,000. Horse out of barn? It’s like the shopping industry trying to interdict anyone who talks about the veracity of the Easter Bunny. And those hits don’t include the interesting occurrence of images that incorporate this number. They aren’t Googly but you can see a series of them from this.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyldkyss/482705949/
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Excellent, Katie!
But that’s one hairy monkey-boy….
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 pm
713,000 hits on Google. I predict it will exceed a million by this time tomorrow.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
I was right. 1,230,000.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Cool! If only I had a DRM’ed HD-DVD to break into….
May 5th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
One point five million.
May 6th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
And now it’s 1.95 million.
I may be obsessing on this but who the heck makes their entire security setup based on one 16 number code that, when it gets out, cannot be unbroken without ruining all the previous disks produced?
May 6th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Excellent pt!
May 7th, 2007 at 9:21 am
1.99 million.