Collaborate Disseminate
Several organizations have asked the Copyright Office to renew the exemption to the DMCA’s DRM circumvention restrictions. This would allow, they argued, abandoned online games to be preserved for future generations. In addition, the Software Preservat… Continue reading Archivists Want Broader DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
Jim Salter, reporting for ArsTechnica: A reader tipped us off today that HBO Max stopped working a couple of weeks ago for Linux users, under any Web browser. Any attempt to play back a video on the streaming service on a Linux system — regardless of … Continue reading HBO Max Cranks Up the Widevine DRM, Leaves Linux Users in the Cold
We sell our code to a company that they can run our code 100 times a month. We need to do a few things before giving the code to the company.
Hide our logic (we can hide our logic by code obfuscation)
excessive usage (no more execution o… Continue reading How to prevent Source code excessive usage and redistribution?
By Matt Hines, VP of Marketing at CipherCloud & Neeraj Nayak, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at CipherCloud Summary: New research underlines the fact that more people will likely prefer to work from home, even when the pandemic passes. … Continue reading A Better Than Remote Chance – More People Work from Home in Post COVID World
Based in the US as Hackaday is, it’s easy to overload the news with stories from home. That’s particularly true with dark tales of the expanding surveillance state, which seem to just get worse here on a daily basis. So we’re not exactly sure how we feel to share not …read more
I am improving one of the DRMs that I’m using for my software, and I have a few questions about how to best implement transferable licenses for offline computers. But first, a disclaimer – I am very well aware that a perfect DRM does not e… Continue reading DRM implementation for offline licensing
We love writing about DRM here at Hackaday. Because when we do, it usually means someone found a way to circumvent the forced restrictions laid upon by a vendor, limiting the use of a device we thought is ours once we bought it. The device in question this time: the …read more
Continue reading Defeating Fridge DRM With Duct Tape and A Dremel
I came across this statement today and am curious:
Audible AAXC files can’t be converted to MP3 since now Audible added an address copyright protection to them
I cannot find anything online as to what “address copyright protection” i… Continue reading What is "address copyright protection"? [closed]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Earlier this year, we brought you the sordid tale of the GE refrigerator that won’t dispense filtered water unless consumers pay extra for “official” filters from the company. This sort of digital r… Continue reading Hacker Bypasses GE’s Ridiculous Refrigerator DRM
There’s a video lecture streaming on a university platform that runs javascript. Can the system detect if I’m downloading the video (via IDM) rather than just watching it? In other words, how can a website know if a video has been watched … Continue reading How a website knows if a video has been watched or downloaded?