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As long as steal other people's work isn't the goal, I'm glad that almost every device could be hacked to customize it anyway you want and do unofficial stuff that didn't get put in since it would "confuse the user" or for "replicating features."]]>Nov 12th 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
Although I realized content protectors were born yesterday, when did Engadget fall off the turnip truck? This afternoon? This is the second recent reference I've seen to DRM being good for developers here. WTF?]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
they kind of have... zune hd and w7 are both far ahead (imo) of the competiton and yes i own them both.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 13th 2009 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/nintendo fanboy hater @
"MS will get it eventually"


Doesn't matter. Beside fanboys who the heck cares about the app store with
less than 300 apps? Anyone wants to guess how much download MS got
from the Marketplace? Let's see the Marketplace can match the 2 billion
downloads from Apple's App store. :)




]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/A few weeks ago Cubase 5.1 was finally cracked and many people were $700 better in pocket.
Where there's a price tag, there's a will and a way...]]>Nov 13th 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 13th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
The PS3 is doing a pretty good job holding off hackers though. It's been hack-free since the day it was launched and it seems like it will be for a long time (unless you believe the hundreds of fake "PS3 custom firmware" vids on YouTube, those have been around for ages now).]]>Nov 13th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/]]>Nov 13th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10393170-83.html?tag=mncol;title]]>Nov 12th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 16th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
"legality goes a meter high, evil goes a mile tall"

so true!]]>Nov 12th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
The problem with trying to secure anything digital is just that, you can't. Once it's released to the wild it all boils down to bits, you can try but all you do is breed a more determined hacker/cracker. At least they try to fix things, but I'd say the majority of people using the WM platform & iPhone don't delve into the grey area and the people that do probably wouldn't have bought the app anyway. Vicious cycle!]]>Nov 12th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
i don't want theories, i want to hear about actual exploits in the wild.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://smellslikedonkey.com/wordpress/?page_id=274

Case in point. Except imagine that on the scale of hundreds, if not thousands, of apps.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
That requires a jailbroken phone, right? So right away, you're outside the realm of AAPL's security by jailbreaking and enabling SSH.

Like leaving your key under the doormat. The lock company can't help you there.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/There have actually been two accounts of people mucking with other others jail-broken iPhones. One in the Netherlands where the guys replaced people's lock screens with his "ad" to tell them how to fix their security and the other in Australia where what is being called an "iPhone worm" made it's rounds vandalizing, again, jail-broken units replacing their wallpaper and then searching for other iPhones in the area to continue on. Link --> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/iphone-worm/

While not truly malicious and devastating, they are both an annoyance at best but also a sign of things to come. Once the more malicious people come along that really want to f* people up, well... things could get bad for the jail-broken community. On the other hand, this opens up a new field AV companies looking to market on a new platform. I think it would be a simple matter to avoid this is Cydia and The Rock disabled SSH by default and have it set to only turn on when physically requested by the user. I toggle mine off when not in use, but a re-boot kicks it back to active status and if I forget... well, my bad.

So you see, not theory any more but actual practice. Again, this is only the jail-break community but give the wily hackers that don't want to take the easy route through an unlocked door a little while and you will see more, I don't care what the platform.]]>Nov 13th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 13th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
Furthermore as a developer it's really easy to check and see if your app is running on a Jailbroken phone, and if it has been pirated. The fact is that developers choose to do nothing about that generally, because piracy is not affecting actual sales much.]]>Nov 13th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
that said, it wouldn't be a surprise to me at all if the exploit were real. microsloth fails.]]>Nov 12th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/



* ducks and covers *]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
You. Fail.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
i have only so much time in the day for nerds. reading the article would have immediately surpassed my quota. i'd rather jump to conclusions and be called a Tard.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
'nough said.]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
You have no time to deal with nerds and reading the article would surpass your quota???

You have managed to find enough time to comment 6 or so times?

By my calculations you could of read the article 3.45 times.

You, my friend, are the defintion of FAIL.

(my spelling is shocking today :S)]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
http://smellslikedonkey.com/wordpress/?page_id=274]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
so who made the stupid image? engadget? kinda misleading. makes it look as if the marketplace itself was compromised.

btw, we prefer the term "delayed". tard is very 90s.]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/
not likely!

;)]]>Nov 12th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/



No, wait, the "understanding" part would have probably taken twice as long... Nevermind...]]>Nov 13th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/Nov 12th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-marketplaces-newest-anti-piracy-measures-already-thwart/On and yes...you simply need to download a simple file for the Cydia source and you installed ANY crack app you want...
stop picking on m$ for no reason. Any type of protection will get cracked.
Look at poor apple...they are trying sooooo hard....invest soooo much time in protection and yet we sill jailbreak and crack apps as we wish....]]>Nov 12th 2009 10:44PM