Media

Stop YouTube (s.ytimg.com) Video Camera Spying

Keith — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:05:34 -0600

Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube (via s.ytimg.com) seems to be one such site?

Lean how stop this here.

"s.ytimg.com wants to set a cookie" - Err... who?

Keith — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:38:00 -0600

I was in Wikipedia today and and got a cookie request (from Firefox) for s.ytimg.com - of course I blocked it, third party cookies for cryptic domains are usually questionable. But the fact that it turned up while I was in Wikipedia made me wonder what it was.

So I looked into it... then I unblocked it.

Blu-ray to follow HD DVD?

Keith — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:29:51 -0700

Following the news of BackupHDDVDs success in bypassing AACS and allowing HD DVDs to be backed up, rumours are starting to spring up about a similar bypass to Blu-ray disks.

It is being suggested that the new Playstation 3 is being used to rip and decrypt Blu-ray disks.

If true, then I suspect that it not BD+ content that is being bypassed as the spec for doesn't seem to have been finalised yet, but even so.

BackupHDDVD confirmed as effective

Keith — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:02:10 -0700

It has been interesting to watch events thus far unfold as a community of skilled individuals sprang up around BackupHDVD, and as of a couple of days ago it has been positively confirmed that AACS has been bypassed.

Has someone managed to get arround AACS (HD DVD content protection)?

Keith — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:04:04 -0700

In one of those interesting twists of fate, I was discussing HD related DRM with some friends on Boxing Day and then on the 27th a utility called BackupHDDVD gets announced. It's already got a Wikipedia entry.

Windows Vista and the cost of DRM

Keith — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:34:33 -0700

As it happens I had made my decision to not adopt Vista before I found the following report, but it underscores a number of my concerns about the platform.

Peter Gutmann (of Auckland university) has produced A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.