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Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Grand Prize Winner posted:

wait what? how does that work?

That little snippet of Perl code plus a decryption key (which was easy to find online after the XingDVD key was found) is all you need to remove the CSS encryption from a DVD. Under the DMCA, it's illegal to distribute tools that can be used to defeat anti-piracy measures such as content encryption, so technically the shirt is illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response

e: The program was also distributed as a poem.

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# ? Aug 8, 2017 19:41

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# ? May 21, 2024 20:02

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

No, that I understand. I meant the thing about deleting stylesheets. What does that mean and how does it relate to lawsuits?

vvv: Thansk!

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# ? Aug 8, 2017 19:55

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Grand Prize Winner posted:

No, that I understand. I meant the thing about deleting stylesheets. What does that mean and how does it relate to lawsuits?

Because the MPAA is not very discerning when it sends out DMCA take down requests, people were also distributing a tool removed CSS styling from websites that was intentionally named the same as the decryption tool in order to bait the MPAA into sending out bogus requests, thus increasing the negative publicity.

# ? Aug 8, 2017 20:05

Squashy Nipples: Aug 18, 2007

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I just rediscovered this in a closet. I used to play this for hours.

Super deep necro at this point, but there are several recreations of this available as mobile apps. I bought an Android one for 3 bucks, and it's great! it even simulates the wear on the buttons over time.

# ? Aug 9, 2017 16:02

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

WebDog posted:

DIVX was another attempt where the disc were barcoded and read by the player which was hooked up to an internet account. In 1998.

I think it might have been in this thread, but I posted a pic I took of a DivX copy of Deep Impact I saw at a Salvation Army, like last month or so. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: yep, it was a crosspost from the Thrift Store thread:

Titus Sardonicus posted:

Didn't buy it because I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play now. I doubt the people who work there even know what this is.

Not worth $1.50, pretty sure.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 01:51

Arms_Akimbo: Sep 29, 2006; It's so damn...literal.

Hey where do you guys keep your sewing patterns?

Mixed in with our CDs of course.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 01:54

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

Arms_Akimbo posted:

Hey where do you guys keep your sewing patterns?

Mixed in with our CDs of course.

The ones around me have laserdisc movies mixed in with their LPs.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 06:53

Samuel L. ACKSYN: Feb 29, 2008

Arms_Akimbo posted:

Hey where do you guys keep your sewing patterns?

Mixed in with our CDs of course.

u ever even been to a thrift store dude

like, ok goodwill is vaguely organized. but, like, a real thrift store. theres always the one.

that one thrift store. the poo poo is just everywhere. dvds? yeah sure thats by the screaming children throwing toys around. also there's some dvds by the old guy sitting down who might be dead, might not. books are over by the guy who got a dvd player and an lcd tv and is watching a movie in the middle of the store. ignore the guy scanning every book and muttering to himself, he's just trying to avoid the old lady smelling all the shirts.

keep an eye on your cart or a thrift store ninja will take the good poo poo out in the blink of an eye.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 07:20

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Collateral Damage posted:

That little snippet of Perl code plus a decryption key (which was easy to find online after the XingDVD key was found) is all you need to remove the CSS encryption from a DVD. Under the DMCA, it's illegal to distribute tools that can be used to defeat anti-piracy measures such as content encryption, so technically the shirt is illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response

Only one in a long line of theoretically illegal crypto t-shirts. Back during Phil Zimmermann's legal troubles with PGP there were any number of RSA-on-a-shirt t-shirts which were theoretically classified as munitions under ITAR, making it illegal to export them (i.e. wear the shirt while crossing the border) or show them to foreign nationals. I think I still have my original tie-dyed blowfish t-shirt.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 07:54

evobatman: Jul 30, 2006; it means nothing, but says everything!; Pillbug

Grand Prize Winner posted:

The ones around me have laserdisc movies mixed in with their LPs.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 09:32

F4rt5: May 20, 2006

Did someone buy Akers Mic's estate twenty years ago and only now put it on the shelf? Film Vinyl lol

# ? Aug 10, 2017 09:44

BogDew: Jun 14, 2006; E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

evobatman posted:

Well vinyl on video (VHD) was a thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWLaAwr3sM

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-effort-to-make-videos-go-vinyl

# ? Aug 10, 2017 10:57

evobatman: Jul 30, 2006; it means nothing, but says everything!; Pillbug

I did pick up Spawn: The Movie on Laserdisc that was in among the vinyl records for $3, even though I don't own a player. I love that stupid comic and movie. Not paying 299 ($40) for a Laserdisc though, even if it was Jurassic Park.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 19:19

Skoll: Jul 26, 2013; Oh You'll Love My Toxic Love; Grimey Drawer

evobatman posted:

I did pick up Spawn: The Movie on Laserdisc that was in among the vinyl records for $3, even though I don't own a player. I love that stupid comic and movie. Not paying 299 ($40) for a Laserdisc though, even if it was Jurassic Park.

I feel like the only person who enjoyed that Spawn movie sometimes. It was bad, but in a good way.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 19:38

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Spawn was fun.

I wouldn't call it good, but it's fun.

It's in the same realm as the Mortal Kombat movie and Road House. Not good, but fun as hell.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 22:40

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Skoll posted:

I feel like the only person who enjoyed that Spawn movie sometimes. It was bad, but in a good way.

I enjoyed it as it's own movie but needed more gore and Spawn throwing grenades and carrying a bazzilion guns.

# ? Aug 11, 2017 08:53

SLOSifl: Aug 10, 2002

I had an HD-DVD player for my towel warmer/Xbox 360 and gave it to some guy for like a trash bag of trimmings and made some brownies. I watched Batman Begins once on my early-gen Westinghouse HD display model and that was it. The brownies were good, but not worth whatever the loving drive cost.

# ? Aug 11, 2017 09:27

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

SLOSifl posted:

I had an HD-DVD player for my towel warmer/Xbox 360 and gave it to some guy for like a trash bag of trimmings and made some brownies. I watched Batman Begins once on my early-gen Westinghouse HD display model and that was it. The brownies were good, but not worth whatever the loving drive cost.

I still have my one and I wouldn't mind playing the packed in King Kong on HD-DVD but I cannot find it. ALso my PC has a super combo hybrid optical drive that does both HD-DVD and Bluray (never have used it for those functions).

# ? Aug 11, 2017 09:57

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

WebDog posted:

Well vinyl on video (VHD) was a thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWLaAwr3sM

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-effort-to-make-videos-go-vinyl

Small world, my grandfather worked on that. Will post any stories he has

# ? Aug 11, 2017 10:02

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

Buttcoin purse posted:

In the alternate reality of this computer game, what is a "lifeboat ticket"? A gun? I think the best way to get onto a lifeboat would be by waving a gun around.

Back to AOHELL:

I thought about it and realized that there's probably not much point in me testing this any further - if it doesn't work because of something in the AOL protocol I don't think I'll have any way of fixing it, so basically apart from fixing bugs, whether or not the code works, it's complete. So I decided you can test it

Here's how it works:

1. You run my setup script, which will capture the "Init" packet from a "good" (able to connect) version of the AOL client, e.g. 6.0 (which I tested) and saves it to disk. I'm not just including the content of the packet in the script because, at least according to Wireshark's dump of the Init packet from AOL 5.0, it contains the screen resolution, color depth, Windows version, and other things that may vary between computers. When looking at the packet from AOL 6.0, those fields are wrong, though, so maybe the AOL 6.0 version no longer contains those things, or maybe Wireshark just doesn't support the AOL 6.0 version of the packet. Also the packet literally includes, in text form, a Copyright notice, although I think there's legal precedent to say "no, gently caress off, you can't prevent people from using your interface by inserting a Copyright notice in it". Instead you need to encrypt it so the DMCA applies

2. You then run my main script, which will replace the first packet of every connection from the old version of the AOL client, e.g. 5.0 (which I tested), with the saved packet from the newer version.

The scripts are able to capture the packets because you can configure the AOL clients (at least 5.0 and 6.0) to change the name of the server they connect to. In the "Sign On" screen, click the "Setup" button, then "Expert Setup", then in the default ("Locations") tab, select the second (child) "ISP/LAN Connection" entry, then click the "Edit" button, select the "Manual Proxy Configuration" radio button, then click on the "View..." button next to it, then in the "Server" frame, in the "Host:" entry field, change the value to the IP address of the machine on which you are running the scripts (127.0.0.1 means the machine you're running the client on). Then click "OK", then "OK", then "Close". Now, clicking the "Sign On" button will make the AOL client connect to the script.

You can run the scripts on the same machine/VM you are running the AOL client on, or a different one, it shouldn't matter. The main issue is the scripts are written in Python and as I mentioned in this post I had trouble getting Python installed on Windows 98 SE, but it did work eventually. If, on the other hand, you install Python on a newer machine where it's probably easier to install, you might have to set up your firewall to enable the VM to connect. Also it's probably best to get Python version 2.x, not 3.x.

So what's your preference, run Python on the Windows 98 SE VM or on another machine (e.g. the host)?

Sorry to quote such an old reply but you don't have PMs. Is there any chance you still have this zip file on your computer somewhere? I had mine on the virtual Windows 98 machine but it says it is corrupt now

# ? Aug 11, 2017 19:50

Buttcoin purse: Apr 24, 2014

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Sorry to quote such an old reply but you don't have PMs. Is there any chance you still have this zip file on your computer somewhere? I had mine on the virtual Windows 98 machine but it says it is corrupt now

What do you know, I was just thinking yesterday that I should upgrade to platinum although I can't even remember why I thought that was a good idea. I hadn't been drinking. Maybe I just wanted to give Lowtax some money.

So do you need to reinstall Windows? :roflolmao:

# ? Aug 13, 2017 03:08

stuffed crust punk: Oct 8, 2004; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Sorry to quote such an old reply but you don't have PMs. Is there any chance you still have this zip file on your computer somewhere? I had mine on the virtual Windows 98 machine but it says it is corrupt now

Pls hook me up too

# ? Aug 13, 2017 03:57

Grumbletron 4000: Nov 30, 2002; Where you want it, bitch.; College Slice

SLOSifl posted:

I had an HD-DVD player for my towel warmer/Xbox 360 and gave it to some guy for like a trash bag of trimmings and made some brownies. I watched Batman Begins once on my early-gen Westinghouse HD display model and that was it. The brownies were good, but not worth whatever the loving drive cost.

I bought the 360 HD-DVD drive and a couple of movies from someone in SA mart. This was maybe 10 years ago. Never got to watch anything on it cause it was loving broken. Like, clearly had fallen to the floor. Dented and hosed up. Guy said it worked when he sent it but he was a god damned liar. I still have a copy of Shaun Of The Dead on HD-DVD that may never be played. But yeah, gently caress that guy.

# ? Aug 13, 2017 08:31

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

Regular Nintendo posted:

Pls hook me up too

http://www.filedropper.com/phaol1

Please post any findings!

# ? Aug 13, 2017 12:50

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

LGR posted a link yesterday to the Rock-afire Explosion documentary in response to the news that Chuck E. Cheese was phasing out their anamatronics. That was a rabbit hole I wish I hadn't gone down and I didn't even watch the whole thing. Everyone involved is insane.

# ? Aug 22, 2017 02:09

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA

This will literally destroy the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise overnight

# ? Aug 22, 2017 04:42

FilthyImp: Sep 30, 2002; Anime Deviant

Dr. Quarex posted:

This will literally destroy the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise overnight

The next one will just have the disembodied AIs rampage through... a virtual park or something?

# ? Aug 22, 2017 04:48

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Dr. Quarex posted:

This will literally destroy the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise overnight

Good. That should take ~1,000 subpar Youtubers out of circulation.

# ? Aug 22, 2017 05:59

Arms_Akimbo: Sep 29, 2006; It's so damn...literal.

Dr. Quarex posted:

This will literally destroy the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise overnight

Nah, it'll just make it a retro game like Axiom Verge

# ? Aug 22, 2017 06:25

Foxhound: Sep 5, 2007

SLOSifl posted:

I had an HD-DVD player for my towel warmer/Xbox 360 and gave it to some guy for like a trash bag of trimmings and made some brownies. I watched Batman Begins once on my early-gen Westinghouse HD display model and that was it. The brownies were good, but not worth whatever the loving drive cost.

I have a friend who has been into gadgets in general for a long time and he and his dad always got new tech way before anyone else I knew. I remember my first experience with Blu-ray was watching House of Flying Daggers with him and his dad and they kept going on about the picture and sound quality (which were probably stellar, I just wasn't a big enough nerd to notice).

Anyway he had (has?) a HD-DVD Xbox360 player with like 10 movies, all off them still in their shrink wrap.

Are keygens obsolete? It has been years since I last :filez:

'd any software, but I remember some groups having really good keygen music, like the one below. Are kids these days still doing this stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVS-eNFRrs

# ? Aug 22, 2017 13:45

Mak0rz: Aug 2, 2008; 😎🐗🚬

Foxhound posted:

Are keygens obsolete? It has been years since I last 'd any software, but I remember some groups having really good keygen music, like the one below. Are kids these days still doing this stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVS-eNFRrs

I'm sure keygens still exist in some capacity, but chances are they're just a simple Windows dialog window or something and don't really have that kind of charm your nostalgic for anymore.

I think that kind of stuff and cracktros and whatnot just kind of merged with or evolved into the demoscene so in a way yeah people are still doing that kind of thing.

# ? Aug 22, 2017 14:55

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

Some warez groups still have music playing in their installer while the game unpacks but it's not as cool because now it's just playing an MP3 using an MP3 library.

# ? Aug 22, 2017 15:24

Flash Gordon Ramsay: Sep 28, 2004; Grimey Drawer

GutBomb posted:

Some warez groups still have music playing in their installer while the game unpacks but it's not as cool because now it's just playing an MP3 using an MP3 library.

I remember when I first discovered how much better mod files were than midi files. Actual music on my computer!

# ? Aug 22, 2017 15:25

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Dr. Quarex posted:

This will literally destroy the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise overnight

good imo

# ? Aug 22, 2017 16:30

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I remember when I first discovered how much better mod files were than midi files. Actual music on my computer!

I remember downloading the final boss music from final fantasy 7. It was over 100 kb and took twenty minutes to download, but it had lyrics.

Blew me away

# ? Aug 22, 2017 17:29

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I remember when I first discovered how much better mod files were than midi files. Actual music on my computer!

You're forgetting about soundfonts, baby. Install one with a soundblaster and suddenly all your dos games are orchestral

# ? Aug 22, 2017 17:37

Orcs and Ostriches: Aug 26, 2010; The Great Twist

http://keygenjukebox.net/

For all your keygen soundtrack needs.

# ? Aug 23, 2017 02:11

George RR Fartin: Apr 16, 2003

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

http://keygenjukebox.net/

For all your keygen soundtrack needs.

This rules; is there any way to actually download the mp3's?

# ? Aug 23, 2017 17:40

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

Shlomo Palestein posted:

This rules; is there any way to actually download the mp3's?

Right click -> Save link as...

# ? Aug 23, 2017 18:36

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# ? May 21, 2024 20:02

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Shlomo Palestein posted:

This rules; is there any way to actually download the mp3's?

Hit ctrl-U (cmd-U on a Mac) to view the page source, then scroll down a bit to the great big list of links to the mp3s. In Chrome you should be able to do a right-click-save-as right from there; in Firefox you might need to remove the "view-source:" prefix from the link first to make it go straight to the mp3. Slurping down all of them is a fairly straightforward bit of scripting, at least if you're on Linux or Mac. But it looks like there's almost 1500 of them, so expect it to take a while, especially if you're being polite and not doing them all at once.

e: Here, I'll make it easy. Get this from pastebin, save it as filelist.txt: https://pastebin.com/pE1ziZp0

Then do this, if you're on Linux or Mac:

code:

while read line; do wget $line; sleep 10; done < linklist.txt

Adjust the "sleep" number for how polite you want to be. In what I wrote, it waits ten seconds between files.

I'm sure there's a way to do all this in Windows too, but I don't have a Windows box handy to bang it out on.

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