{"id":1572,"date":"2003-10-13T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/13\/new-anti-piracy-tactics\/"},"modified":"2003-10-13T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2003-10-13T22:57:37","slug":"new-anti-piracy-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/13\/new-anti-piracy-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Anti-piracy Tactics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1451'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>According to Hiawatha Bray, we are all missing the point in the story<br \/>\n        about Suncomm Technologies Inc., the company which <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/10#a1413\">threatened<br \/>\n        to sue a Princeton<br \/>\n        graduate<br \/>\n        student<\/a>        who published an article revealing a secret method<br \/>\n        of disabling their anti-piracy software &#8211; by holding down the shift key.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maybe the music industry has finally figured it out. Unless consumers<br \/>\n        are forced to buy computers that will not copy CDs &#8212; fat chance &#8212; it&#8217;s<br \/>\n        impossible to completely eliminate music piracy. So instead, the industry<br \/>\n        might be designing systems that seek to gently nudge people toward honesty,<br \/>\n      rather than dragging them in chains toward the path of righteousness.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/286\/business\/Missing_the_point_on_antipiracy_technology%2B.shtml\">from<br \/>\n          the Boston Globe<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/court.nol.org\/opinions\/2003\/august\/aug8\/s02-1004.htm\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Hiawatha Bray, we are all missing the point in the story about Suncomm Technologies Inc., the company which threatened to sue a Princeton graduate student who published an article revealing a secret method of disabling their anti-piracy software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/13\/new-anti-piracy-tactics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}