Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 24 – Oddities

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Products

Where do the weekends go? Already is it another Monday and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. As usual, the show brings you yet another collection of copyright news stories, views and abuse as brought to you by myself and Chris Matthieu, the founder of Numly.

All totaled, the show had sixteen stories, including the following:

  • Creationist Go DMCA Crazy
  • Prince and the Village Threaten Lawsuits
  • SCO Goes Bankrupt
  • RIAA Suffers a Pair of Setbacks
  • Autodesk Ignores Right of First Sale
  • And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here. Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

[audio:http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/audio/copyright20eps24.mp3]

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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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  • Jeremy: I'll just repeat the notice... Don't do that!
  • You're right about the sledgehammer thing, hard drives are a pain to get apart even with all the proper tools. They use funky screws, and usually the top and bottom half are glued together using that crazy industrial-strength stuff. Pain in the butt, much easier to just dig a hole and bury it ;)

    Actually get some screenshots of the junk on it before digging its grave, then post the pix on your blog and claim you sent it in for repair and it came back with all this illegal stuff. Instant Digg bait, especially if you claim you sent it in to Apple, Dell, or geek squad. :P

    *legal notice: Don't do that*
  • Jeremy,

    Why am I not shocked that you're the one that would post instructions on this?

    Actually, I use a program called eraser on my Windows machines to keep erasing the free space. I use the built in Mac tool as well.

    So that's good at least but I still doubt one can easily break a hard drive with a sledgehammer...
  • To remove data from a hard drive just do an NSA grade zero-out of all the data (7 times or greater). Or use a sledge hammer to pop it open, then use a car battery to make an electro magnet and pass it over.

    At least that only works for regular magnetic HDs

    If it is one of the newer flash-based HDs then you can just fry it. I'd recommend frying it with a lot of electricity or just starting a really hot fire and tossing it on there ;) .
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