Day: September 1, 2002

K5: A memo to Cornell students about DMCA enforcement.

In July of this year, a 29-year-old computer technician entered a federal penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania to begin serving a 46-month term for the illegal distribution of millions of dollars worth of copyrighted software, games and movies on the Internet. The alleged “ringleader” of an Internet group known as “DrinkorDie,” he is among the more than one hundred people arrested last December for violation of federal copyright laws on the Internet, and among the 15 who have already pleaded guilty. One of those fifteen was a student at Duke University.

It just gets worse from there…

Kuro5hin: Introduction To and Experiences With Mac Cocoa, probably one of the few k5 articles that is fit for posting on this weblog.

Cocoa is the native system for developing applications on the Apple Mac. This article introduces Cocoa and describes my experiences after about a year implementing a complex application in Cocoa using Objective C.

PHPOpenTracker: A php-based (I think) tracking system that can be embedded in php or tracked with an image tag.