{"id":76,"date":"2003-04-15T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/dmca-scares-off-book-publisher\/"},"modified":"2003-04-15T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T17:23:00","slug":"dmca-scares-off-book-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/dmca-scares-off-book-publisher.html","title":{"rendered":"DMCA Scares Off Book Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MIT grad student hacked the Xbox and described his methods in a <a title=\"MIT student hacks into Xbox -- Monday, Jun 3, 2002\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1040-931296.html?tag=nl\">widely distributed research paper<\/a>, helping spur a wave of Xbox-hacking that has led to the development of <a title=\"Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal -- Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1040-985154.html?tag=nl\">Xbox versions of Linux<\/a> and other homemade software.<\/p>\n<p>The publishing deal on his recently competed book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0764539930\/qid=1049904975\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/102-6804113-5034558\">Hacking the Xbox<\/a>&#8221; was killed because the publisher is scared that Microsoft will come after them with the DMCA. (The Department of Justice recently used the DMCA to <a title=\"U.S. crime-fighters seize Web sites -- Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1023-986225.html?tag=nl\">shut down ISOnews.com<\/a>, a Web site partly used to distribute Xbox-hacking tools, and to  imprison the site&#8217;s owner.)<\/p>\n<p>So he decided to self-publish the book, but the shopping-cart service he used also got scared off by the DMCA. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The thing I have to emphasize is that the book itself is not criminal,&#8221;   Huang said. &#8220;It&#8217;d be like saying that breaking and entering is illegal, so you can&#8217;t write a book on how locks work.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"last\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2008-1082-996787.html?tag=fd_nc_1\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MIT grad student hacked the Xbox and described his methods in a widely distributed research paper, helping spur a wave of Xbox-hacking that has led to the development of Xbox versions of Linux and other homemade software. The publishing deal on his recently competed book, &#8220;Hacking the Xbox&#8221; was killed because the publisher is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}