Collaborate Disseminate
Right-to-repair has been a hot-button topic lately, with everyone from consumers to farmers pretty much united behind the idea that owning an item should come with a plausible path to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 3, 2023
Our Sun is getting a bit frisky these days, and has rewarded us with perhaps the best screensaver image ever taken. The incredibly detailed photo of a sunspot was actually taken back in January by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a 4-meter instrument with adaptive optics that can image …read more
It’s not the first ISP to be held accountable for alleged piracy: Cox is looking at a $1b damage order. Continue reading Reveal the identities of alleged pirates, court tells ISP
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA. Continue reading LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
Oh, for the old days when sailing the seas of piracy was as simple as hooking a couple of VCRs together with a dubbing cable. Sure, the video quality degraded with each generation, but it was so bad to start out with that not paying $25 for a copy of “Ghostbusters” was a value proposition. But then came The Man with all his “rules” and “laws” about not stealing, and suddenly tapes weren’t so easy to copy.
If you’ve ever wondered how copy protection worked in pre-digital media, wonder no more. [Technology Connections] has done a nice primer on one …read more
Continue reading Rolling Old School with Copy Protection from the 1980s