Thursday, March 10, 2005

Power of the Internet and Finally Conquered the Copy Protected CD

It took me a long time, maybe 10 years to realise the power of the Internet. I thought it was just for the perverts to leer at pornography, it took a shift in my understanding that if you ask the right question in yahoo or google then the right answer will jump out at you. But it is hard to understand how to phrase that question, as it doesn’t understand English, it just matches the words you type. So that leap took place some time this year as I had plenty of time at work to spend just surfing, I wanted to be a hacker and needed to break software, well actually I ended up with software that others have broken, or cracked to use the correct geeky terminology. I asked and was told how to copy DVD's. How to compress DVD's to CD and how to download music and software from the Internet. The learning process of learning how to protect yourself from viruses and worms and Trojans was a painful and hard one, with all my surfing I was trojaned several times but only with mild ones that give you endless pop ups, I have since been properly trojaned by bot worms that want to take over your machine and make it a zombie, to be used in blackmail attacks on websites. But I am now a reasonable user of the software to defeat them and remove them from my Laptop. In fact if you have read my other entries I am helping many others in this war of terror on the Internet. I am even thinking of messing about offering my services for money when I get back to Costa Rica to rich Americans. I am not mercenary but I like money as much as the next bank robber, and with this thought in mind, there was a crazy armed robbery in Costa Rica that went badly wrong with 9 killed and 2 dead robbers, well I can only say they deserved it but the rest of them certainly didn’t. This is the only problem of the paradise of Costa Rica is the travelling robbers from Panama and Nicaragua, they come and kill mercilessly for pennies, like taxi drivers and bus drivers even, rob shops everywhere, but now the shop owners fight back with armed guards inside and out, ordinary folk are pretty well ok but petty burglaries are common place stealing anything for cocaine money, and at $6 a gram is the drug of choice.
Well I finally cracked the copy protected CD and it needs 3 different pieces of software, first you have to copy it to your hard drive as an image file and then convert that image file into a Wave file and then convert that into an Mp3 file, but after 2 days reading the necessary information I finally did it but only by luck, I spotted the image file in my temp folder and realised what I had done, so even after all the reading it was a piece of pure fluke, this is where I love the internet, ask the right question and you will be rewarded with gold or sorts, I even managed to find out the API description of crude oil and condensate categorization, pure gold

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