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Trent Reznor never ceases to amaze me. Today he posted on the new NIN website:

1.7.09: your gift!
The internet is full of surprises these days.
I was contacted by a mysterious, shadowy group of subversives who SOMEHOW managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour. Security must have been lacking at these shows because the quality of the footage is excellent.

If any of you could find a LINK to that footage I'll bet some enterprising fans could assemble something pretty cool.

Oh yeah, you didn't hear this from me.

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posted by trent reznor

A few minutes later Rob Sheridan in person adds:

Good. Because it is.

Of course, I would never do that. ^_^

If you happen to be a voracious torrent user you may have found yourself in the situation where instead of a film your video player displays a still text inviting you to download their stupid trojan-horse infected video proprietary video player.

Basically the video file is there, but it's been encrypted so that only that particular crappy video player allows you to see it. Or is it? Apparently 3wplayer are not very bright, all they did was using standard exclusive or (XOR) with a short string, which makes sense. It's really easy to implement, saves space since the function for encoding and decoding is the same and most importantly it's fast, wich it has to be when dealing with video. What those morons who created that stupid player forgot, was that if you have a lot of the same bytes in the file you want to encrypt, the XOR key shines through. (hacking code below!)