I'm seeing too much of the hacks & cracks thing going on in the engadget posts. What gives? It seems as though the group is turning itself over to the control of caffeinated teenage anarchists. Can we post things of substance, which the IT PRO who's actually reading these posts may find interesting??
Where do you see anything that says this site is intended for "IT pros"? It's a site about gadgets. The thing that makes gadgets useful is content. These "hacks" are all about freeing that content so it can be used anywhere.
The morality of this particular use of Fairuse4WM can be debated, but most DRM is just begging to be stripped, and I welcome the posts about doing so.
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konaman @ Aug 8th 2007 7:23AM
I'm seeing too much of the hacks & cracks thing going on in the engadget posts. What gives? It seems as though the group is turning itself over to the control of caffeinated teenage anarchists. Can we post things of substance, which the IT PRO who's actually reading these posts may find interesting??
Jeff @ Aug 8th 2007 11:54AM
Where do you see anything that says this site is intended for "IT pros"? It's a site about gadgets. The thing that makes gadgets useful is content. These "hacks" are all about freeing that content so it can be used anywhere.
The morality of this particular use of Fairuse4WM can be debated, but most DRM is just begging to be stripped, and I welcome the posts about doing so.