Archive for May, 2007

Free Me – a free culture DVD

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

To build awareness of Free Culture movement a collection of best free books, free movies, free audio and free software has been made available to download. This DVD shows what value free culture has to offer and many issues around it. Some excellent videos on it are Mix Tape, Who Owns Culture? and Trusted Computing. [...]

DRM vs consumers, HD-DVD edition

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Recently the HD-DVD copy protection scheme was hacked and a 16-bit decryption key was published on a forum. This is very similar event when the DeCSS code was released that could decrypt the DVD encryption. The code was published on multiple sites within days and eventually ended up being printed on t-shirts and mugs. Now [...]