With so much audacity from the rights extortionists, one can hardly think of any further comment:
After joint research by the computer magazine c't and the news portal onlinekosten.de, indications suggest that the GVU may have overstepped the bounds of what is permissible in its investigations against copyright infringers. The editorial teams received hints from a GVU-affiliated informant some time ago, which have since been confirmed by a second source. According to these reports, the GVU regularly paid at least one administrator of a central exchange server in the warez scene. In this way, they obtained log files and thus access IP addresses of this so-called "box." In addition, they are said to have contributed hardware to equip the platform.
It's quite amusing when an alleged communications professional lets his envy show so clearly:
Many of you write that I scored an own goal with my email. Okay, maybe one. But how many own goals are you scoring right now by picking up my buzzword "Toilet Walls of the Internet" in part indignantly, in part gleefully, spreading it in the sense of agenda setting? At Technorati.com, the search term was temporarily ranked 3rd!
Well, that's just the way it is - there are also others who can exploit a term. And in the blogs, the toilet wall is simply more popular than the you-are-German-language nonsense.
And about the alleged "apology" - sorry, but that is an apology that you can also read from politicians - meaningless, vague, and the only statement you can derive from it at best is a defiant "but I'm right!" Tja, Marketinghansel. Big mouth up front, but only a sensitive soul and no clue behind it.
First, only signed drivers should be accepted:
What Microsoft markets in its documentation as a security gain and as an indispensable feature for Digital Rights Management (DRM) has a bitter aftertaste: So far, only those who equip themselves with corresponding certificates from Verisign and pay around 500 US dollars per year for this can create such a signature.
But from signed drivers (with which open-source drivers will already have a real problem) to signed applications is not far. And for open source projects, it is usually not so easy to get the money for certificates.
pyvm home - another Python implementation. Its own bytecode interpreter and a Python compiler written in Python. Sounds almost like PyPy meets Parrot - though retaining the Python bytecode.