Most funny is that Sony themselves apparently violated copyright with the rootkit itself: It included code of the LAME MP3 encoder, mpglib, FAAC and others, and they didn't adhere to the licensing requirements of these.

Very nice, bookmarked. Hope you'll post a followup, it would be particularly interesting to see how your web monetization works out in the long time.

When you click on an article titled like that, you assume it's about Mozart (born 1775), but yea - Dibdin was first (1745).

But hey, what's with earlier composers? Guillaume Dufay? He was born 1474.

Had similar experiences back then.

I once flew from San Francisco to Frankfurt, and we were stopped by security because my brother had handcuffs in his baggage. (toys from Alcatraz sold as Souvenirs, but they were made of metal and looked quite real).

Can you imagine what would happen today if security found handcuffs in your bags at the air port? Back then, they smiled and put them back after my brother explained they were just toys. Unbelievable today.

> Can you imagine what would happen today if security found handcuffs in your bags at the air port? Back then, they smiled and put them back after my brother explained they were just toys. Unbelievable today.

So you are trying to tell us not to take our sex toys to the airport. The world just got thougher.

I’d just say I’m going to visit my girlfriend and she is going to use them on me. [Wink]

It also really helps if you were born in a time where all this didn't exist. Just remember how we did this in the 90s. I do a live-like-in-the-90s-day about once a month now, and it is quite relaxing.

I was born in 1999, what does a "live-like-in-the-90s-day" look like?

Easy: No internet, no smartphones.