AACS takedown notice on DRM key backfires via Dig

AACS takedown notice backfires

from link above nice story on how the 'crowd-sourcing' of Digg has back-fired on the might of lawyerdoom.

legal threats from the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA).
All well n good u might say...
...except ....

Complete and utter chaos. Tens of thousands of Digg users posted story after story containing the 16-digit encryption key. Traffic on the site was so high that it was unavailable for parts of the day.

In the end Digg stopped taking down their users posting of the key and gave up and sided with their users.

So instead of supressing the code, all the AACS managed to do was generate a ton of negative publicity and spread thousands of copies of the code indelibly all over the internet.


AACS is all above DRM on DVD's etc..
 
 

Lal

X little tricks

Dru Lavigne has an article on "Fun with X.org" and looks at some cool stuff u can do with X.
I'll read about
some of the capabilities b4 but not seen easy 2 follow screenshots that makes it easier 2 understand.

• add in support 4 DRI (Direct Rendering Interface), DRM (Direct Rendering Manager), OpenGL (OPEN Graphics Library) as doesn't come by default from x.org
  
• multiple window managers simultaneously
  
• pread a single display across multiple monitors using DMX
• Monitor Other Systems