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Monday, November 17, 2008

Buying a movie should not give you less quality than pirating it

November 17, 2008

And yet, as this example shows, thanks to copy protection systems it usually does: "When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with a new aluminum MacBook over lunch, he was denied by the error you see above [an HDCP error]. John's using a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA [...]

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Buying a movie should not give you less quality than pirating it

November 17, 2008

And yet, as this example shows, thanks to copy protection systems it usually does: "When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with a new aluminum MacBook over lunch, he was denied by the error you see above [an HDCP error]. John's using a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA [...]

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The lovely irony of contextual advertising, part 27

November 17, 2008

Today, we came across a hard hitting column in The Gaurdian by Kira Cochrane, where's she's despairing of "female stars still having to expose their bodies": Meanwhile, down at the bottom, we get to the ads: Caned female bottoms, eh? It's good to know that the Graun knows where I can buy them.

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The lovely irony of contextual advertising, part 27

November 17, 2008

Today, we came across a hard hitting column in The Gaurdian by Kira Cochrane, where's she's despairing of "female stars still having to expose their bodies": Meanwhile, down at the bottom, we get to the ads: Caned female bottoms, eh? It's good to know that the Graun knows where I can buy them.

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