Earlier this year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation took action against the Entertainment Software Association with a challenge to change the DMCA rules regarding the preservation of online games. The EFF, looking to defend the rights of gamers, claimed that fan-operated servers should be allowed to support video games once publishers shut the official ones down. On the other hand,...
The year is 2099. In this dark timeline, some historically significant console-based online game has shut down. As a video game archivist, you want to run a hacked server to keep the final version of the game online. The cyberpolice blast through the door (with a laser, probably) and arrest you. Alright, so maybe that's not a likely future, exactly. Except for the laser part. But...
Ever since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, people have felt stifled by the fact that the only things you could load onto the iPhone was the applications the company approved. Unless an app made it through the approval process set forth by the company, you were out of luck on getting it onto your phone, iPod Touch or even now the iPad. However, leave it to people with a lot of...