Archive for November, 2006

Gizmodo: How To Use The Zune as a Hard Drive

Gizmodo: How To Use The Zune as a Hard Drive Fantastic news for the handful of people who actually own a Zune. Someone’s found a way to enable a sort of hard drive support, which although doesn’t assign a drive letter to your Zune, does allow you to drag and drop files from it....

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Gizmodo: How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM

This sounds like way too much work, but here you go. Gizmodo: How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM: …rename whatever files—MP3s, movies, programs—to have the extension “.jpg” in order to fool the Zune into thinking it’s an image. This hack works because Zune doesn’t apply DRM to images! Then what? Now, take...

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ArsTechnica: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years)

ArsTechnica: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years) Every three years, the Copyright Office develops a list of approved exemptions to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention protections. This is the third time through the process, and the government has approved the largest number of exemptions to date—though they’re still incredibly narrow. Exemptions are allowed for 1)...

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