Those darn kids use Pig-Latin to defy the adults. You know they are wrong and they know they are wrong but still it makes everyone laugh. Well, almost everyone. : O)
msnbc.com
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Pig Latin encoder tricks Napster
New software enables downloading
of blocked songs
March 7 Programmers at the file-sharing firm Aimster say they have found a disarmingly simple way for Napster users to avoid recent restrictions imposed on the service by a federal judge: an encryption scheme based on Pig Latin.
AIMSTER, whose software lets users trade files by piggybacking on instant message networks, released the free Aimster Pig Encoder program Sunday on its Web site.
Under the terms of the injunction against Napster, the company must remove songs within three days of receiving notice by copyright holders. It’s the file name, not the file itself, that is screened: Early reports suggested that copyrighted songs with slight misspellings in the file names were undisturbed.
With the Pig Encoder, ’Music’ becomes ’usicM,’ ’Hello’ becomes ’elloH,’ the Aimster Web site says.
Aimster Chief Executive Officer Johnny Deep said that changing file names with encryption makes it illegal to systematically remove the altered files.
Deep said Napster might be able to remove encrypted file names one by one, but it couldn’t reverse engineer the Pig Encoder to remove all songs that had been encrypted even though the encryption is so simple that anyone can deduce the real title of an encrypted file name.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act outlaws the reverse engineering of encryption schemes, Deep said. Encryption is defined as the scrambling and descrambling of information using mathematical formulas or algorithms.
Deep said his company’s encryption uses an algorithm, albeit a simple one, and thus qualifies for legal protection. It has that beautiful irony, Deep said, adding that the program took him and his team about six hours to complete.
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Like the school teacher telling the kids not to talk during the test, "I don't want to see anyone's lips moving". The kids simultaneously shield their mouths with their hands and keep right on muttering.
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Can I tell someone about how the Aimster Pig Encoder works?
IMPORTANT WARNING: DO NOT TELL ANYONE how the Aimster Pig Encoder works. Disclosing how the Aimster Pig Encoder works may be a violation of a federal law called the DMCA and subject to up to a $500,000 fine and 5 years in prison! Seriously, we are not joking about this, although we would agree that the situation sounds quite funny (if it wasn't so sad). There is already a similar case in which someone has been found guilty simply for printing an encoder secret on a t-shirt! If anyone asks you how the Aimster Pig Encoder works, tell them to download it and find out for themselves!
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