dadkins
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1 edit | Ubisoft Uses Internet Crack To Get Around Its Own DRM
Yeah, what irony - huh? LMAO!
Pwned themselves(and customers) then stole code to *fix* it.
Can't wait to see the spin that tries to get applied to this!
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Mr Matt
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|  Intel Wants FCC To Require Cable HD Set-Tops To Speak IP
 If the FCC is on the ball in addition to Intel's request, they will require that Set Top Boxes go into a sleep mode when in stand by (OFF) that draws less than 5 Watts instead of the 50 Watts that my Motorola Hi Definition DVR draws 24/7/365. My Air Conditioner also has to remove about 160 BTU's an hour, which is the heat created by the Set Top. |
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KrK
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| Oh this is great. I mean ROFL.
"Ooops, our bad! Our customers are pissed! It's gonna take a day to write out a fix!"
"Wait! there's this crack on the Internet that works.... Here let me just P2P it.... ok got it.... Quick repackage it with our logo and push that patch out as the fix!"
ROFL. Self-Pwnage!
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KrK
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Re: Intel Wants FCC To Require Cable HD Set-Tops To Speak IP
You're not kidding. These STB's and DVR's are major electricity vampires. My Dish receiver acts like a small room heater--- when it's off!
There's no need for this wasteful design. What would it take to have one small circuit that watched the IR sensor for the remote, then that circuit tripped a power relay and powers up the boxen? Me thinks very, very little in cost of hardware--- and major energy savings.
In this modern era we need electronics that are designed to save power; even if they care less about being "green" they should be thinking about saving their customer's "Green"!
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to dadkins
Re: Ubisoft Uses Internet Crack To Get Around Its Own DRM
These companies just step on their dicks with DRM. It doesn't slow the pirates a bit while legit users just get frustrated to the point of buying less games. |
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dadkins
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| LOL!
ALL of my games get the NoCD/NoDVD treatment.
This is just funny! They boned themselves! Twice! 
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1 edit | In my case I abandoned PC gaming all together. Between the DRM, stability issues and rampant cheating, it's not worth it. FPS sucks ass on consoles and Mac but at least I get to play without jumping through a bunch of friggin hoops and 50 hours of TSing start-up and punkbuster errors.
They make it next to impossible for 'legit' game buying users like me to use their products. It ends up being easier to just grab a cracked version off usenet for free. |
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RARPSL
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| reply to KrK
Re: Intel Wants FCC To Require Cable HD Set-Tops To Speak IP
said by KrK  :There's no need for this wasteful design. What would it take to have one small circuit that watched the IR sensor for the remote, then that circuit tripped a power relay and powers up the boxen? Me thinks very, very little in cost of hardware--- and major energy savings. For the DVRs it would need to Power Down the Hard Drive (I do not know if this already occurs) and also monitor the Input Port for pushed updates (the schedule update can wait until the next time the Guide is Accessed). If there is a recording scheduled it would need to auto-power-up (as if the IR was pressed) in time to accept the recording. I see nothing hard about also doing this. |
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Kearnstd
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| reply to Mr Matt
will never happen, and its not the cable company that will stop it but the greedy content owners. they will scream that allowing IP access at what is stored in the box will cause piracy to skyrocket.
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4 edits | my box is unlocked from TWC
full access via firewire
USB and ESATA are also useable
also VOD is unencrypted (picked up on my TV qam tunner)
has been unencrypted for 3-4 years
i get to watch Free New movies etc.. on some one elses dime
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Mr Matt
ive heard that about many cable operators that the VOD streams arent encrypted. setting the QAM tuner to scan and you are likely to find one.
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Doctor Four
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| reply to dadkins
Re: Ubisoft Uses Internet Crack To Get Around Its Own DRM
Pirating the pirates!
Gotta love it.
Kind of hard to take piracy complaints by companies seriously
when they do something like this.
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Kearnstd
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| reply to dadkins
well no CD cracks arent really piracy and arent illegal, yet.
but still wrong for ubisoft to not make their own code not need a CD without leeching off the work of fans.
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | They're a violation of the DMCA as they circumvent copy protection. |
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to dadkins
the DMCA holds less value then the speed limit. i feel atleast some guilt when violating that. i feel no guilt when breaking the DMCA, if i buy the media it is mine.
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | Add me to the list of those who don't give 2 squirts of piss about the DMCA. It's yet another law purchased from Congress by corporate interests. |
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