Finished Chapter 13 – DVD Ripping. Took quite a while as I was doing actual ripping sessions which required hours. Next up: Hardware Upgrading (filmed some footage this morning; more tomorrow) and end credits (also needs footage)!
Category: Life
Every other post.
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The Crunch
“The Crunch” is a term used by video-game studios to refer to the time nearing the end of a particular project when the development team spends insane hours on completing their work. I am going through my own such period trying to complete the EYNTO Show. I spent 9 hours today on it (!) and was able to finish Chapter 12.
Next up: Chapter 13 (DVD Ripping). Interesting note: There are 3,034 files across 187 folders in the EYNTO directory on my computer. 6.21GB of material; mostly from the voice work, video screen captures, images used. Camera footage is only 1GB.
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New Firefox Vulnerability…
New Firefox (1.0.3) Vulnerability out which allows one to create .bat files remotely. This signifies that one could make your computer upload documents to an FTP server (series of commands) in addition to the whole “delete your root directory” thing.
Click on the link [link removed] for a demo that will create a directory on your C:\ drive called “jmcardleFF”.
edit: ehh… ain’t working. Anywho, check on the source anyways :p
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Site of the Week
Digital Consumer’s FAQ:
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725 more file sharers sued; 10,037 total (!)
Making up for March’s skipped litigation, the RIAA filed a second round of April lawsuits this week against 725 file sharers for copyright infringement. Perhaps answering my question from earlier this month, the latest press release no longer mentions that only university students are being sued.
The total number of file sharers sued has now broken the five-digit barrier, coming in at 10,037 people sued by the RIAA since September 2003. This is an astounding figure. I just checked the Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics and found that this one wave of litigation represents 2.3% of all civil cased filed in federal court. (The average number of civil lawsuits filed per month for 2003 and 2004 was 21,363; in the 20 months since the RIAA began suing file sharers, the recording industry filed 502 lawsuits on average each month.) And given the news reports of $3,000 average settlements, this means the RIAA’s probably collected over $30 million from individual file sharers.
These lawsuits must be moneymakers for the RIAA or else they wouldn’t have gone on for so long. But will they become a standard feature of our online society for years to come? Or will the RIAA give it up some day? I mean, given that there will always be some file sharing, at what point does the RIAA say that it’s won?
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