Microsoft's 'dirty tricks' archive turns into hot Torrent
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Oscar-contender Microsoft lawyers who believed they'd buried the most embarrassing collection of documents about the company's murky past for good, without any one noticing, were in for a surprise this weekend. The archive has become a mainstay of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing networks.â¦
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Hackers have come up with a way to get around one of Microsoft's antipiracy mechanisms for Vista.
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The update for the popular Windows BitTorrent client includes serious bug fixes, new encryption options and handy bandwidth controls. In Monkey Bites.
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The cat-and-mouse game continues between Microsoft and a group of hackers intent on breaking the copy protection technology on its Windows Media files. This time, an individual has cracked the latest DRM scheme employed by Microsoft.
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Program showing how to use flaw in Windows' handling of graphics files hits the Net--back up your family photos and beware.
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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The seriousness of an already critical flaw in the way a Microsoft component processes JPEG files got ratcheted up a notch this week as exploit code began circulating.
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Security flaws in browser Internet Explorer are being exploited by porn sites to hijack Windows PCs.
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Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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A fresh version of a program designed to circumvent Microsoft's Windows Media DRM was released on Friday, but the company's saying they're not concerned.
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Users are finding lots of inventive ways to lose precious files, say data recovery experts.
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Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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Who said you could improve our software? What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program?â¦
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Blog: As company battles accusations that it aids copyright violators, TorrentSpy founder launches filtering system.
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net.