7/30/2003

RIAA-based Quote Of The Day

Filed under: Big Brother — Tim @ 11:56 am

Secure IDE:

ABIT’s SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files.

Thanks to ze Taiwanese you can now kinda sorta fight back against The Man. Actually, here is how it works:

For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened to users who were asking for information security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE hard disk and has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours.

How do you like them apples?

Additionally, you know how I put forth a prediction as to who the RIAA was targeting? Well, that riddle has been partially solved, as explained at Slashdot:

Slyck News seems to have found a pattern in just what files the RIAA is searching on to find offenders. It seems the RIAA is targeting a wide reach of music, including Hip Hop, R&B, Rap, Rock, Pop and Country songs. Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas. They’ve even created a helpful chart showing exactly what artists and songs seem to get one flagged.”

And if none of those links work well, try out this guys site, he put the Excel list into a regular txt so we can all view it easily.

Note: and as Marc2k pointed out, maybe the RIAA is actually doing us a favor, look at the list of songs that are being targeted (kidding kidding, we all love Snoop Dogg).

Lastly, my friend Bill Malloy put together a quick letter you can write the talking head that apparently represents you (farcical aquatic ceremony indeed) and petition for some sort of grievance or for Viking reparations… because they pillaged your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa. Damn them.