Testing Microsoft And The DMCA

sproketboy writes "I found a great piece about an MIT student and his XBox hacking over at news.com. Apparently he can't get his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA. I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left. ;)." The student is doctoral candidate Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the same hacker Microsoft declined to stop last August from presenting a paper on insecurities in the Xbox hardware.

Spelling

[Mengoxon]

You know, you shouldn't get your works published DUE TO horrible and confusing spelling mistakes.

PhD candidate taking a break?!

[October_30th]

Taking a break from working on his doctoral thesis

I'm appalled. Since when have PhD students had the luxury of "taking a break"?

When I was working on my thesis, PhD students would work 6 days a week without vacation for 4 years straight and, as far as I can see, at least the physics PhD candidates are still working like this. Is "taking a break" something that computer science people can afford?

MIT

[lingqi]

man the guy certainly has a lot of time to meddle with the XBOX...

Talk about a great school...

* Diploma that will get you LARGE amount of cash later
* Research topic is to fiddle around with game console
* Appear to be victim and popularized as sort of a martyr on /.

Now if you add a dash of sex (point one - mass quantity of money, can usually bring this to realization), it would be the perfect life.

Well, if he move to china, where there's still some freedom left. heh.

(note to self: why does my sarcastic jokes always come out like troll posts? Maybe a MIT education would help?)

ill publish it!

[daveatwork]

send it to moi, and ill sort out the publishing in the UK no probs :-) Also, whats that post goin on about that Saddam is dead?

china's freedom

[StrifeCX]

I hope he at least can get it publish in China or Russia where people have some freedoms left.

Becuase everyone knows how much
freedom [slashdot.org]
people [slashdot.org]
in [slashdot.org]
china [slashdot.org]
have! [slashdot.org]

You forget. We ARE the world.

[Anonymous Coward]

Contrevening our laws would be terrorism, which would force us to invade, take control and install DCMA/Patriot/Patriot2 for their own protection and ours.

Obligatory OOP rights

[Anonymous Coward]

Int User.Rights=0
Int Corporate.Rights=-100

if(User.Location=="USA" || User.Assets.Cash.Value<1000000){
while(Goverment.People.Representation<Goverment.Pe ople.Representation)
User.Rights -=1;
Corporate.Rights +=10;
}
else {
User.Rights+=1;
Corporate.Rights = Corporate.Rights;
}

it's typical

[toddhunter]

They won't publish my book about the sassy h@>0r robot either. Bastards

Re:Ironic...

[Filik]

Oh, finally someone who understands that hacking is like sex for the geeks 8)

Re:PhD candidate taking a break?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats nice, but couldn;t you focus on something more meaningful like increasing my framerates in Quake?

Re:PhD candidate taking a break?!

[Flounder]

Sheesh, in my time it involved working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week without vacation for 4 years straight...

in five feet of snow! Both ways!

Let me be the first to say

[Zakabog]

In Soviet America, DMCA violates you!

This is the last straw...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Apparently he can't get his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA"

Apparently, /. can't publish a readable article do to its inability to understand elementary school grammer. Cripes.

For the same reason ...

[IcEMaN252]

... that you climb a rock, you put Linux on the XBox.

It's there and you can prove to yourself you can do it.

Now where can I get a DeCSS RPM for X-Box Linux????

Re:You forget. We ARE the world.

[merseault]

The WMD question is still an open one, which may take many months to resolve - people have to remember that we're what, about a month into this thing?

Ya until they realize that there were none to begin with. Then what happens? "Look! we FOUND WMD, hey, what the, I thought I told you guys to remove the 'Made in USA' stickers from those warheads?!"