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[Ableton] Repairing Defective ALS Files Manually

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What happened?

many avoidable (stupid) situations arise from hectic rush: we for instance accidentally deleted an ableton set (.ALS file extension) from a local NAS server
without going too deep into detail: since we don’t have a RAID based NAS we could recover (some parts of) the desired .als file by putting the NAS’ drive into an old PC and restored the found data with UFS/XFS-Explorer (absolute recommendation) to an external USB drive
after loading the recovered ALS file, we encountered the corrupt file error from Ableton

The following article is written by a Mac user, but many (if not all) things should most likely be able to be applied to Windows aswell. Continue reading →

[Media] Newspaper Articles About Copying And File Sharing

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Abstract

According to the RIAA the media industry is suffering heavy losses due to increased copying and file sharing in the last 10 years. Sanity and reason shows there must be something true with that argument. But are the numbers the media companies are providing correct? What can we learn from history?

The following links provide an uncategorized and unsorted mixture of links (in multiple languages) dealing with the topic of copying and file sharing. It is in no way complete and perfect, but is probably usable as a lateral cut thru that topic.

We will update this section frequently. Comments are highly appreciated.

Links

Date	Headling	Editor/Media	Link
1977	Sind Leer-Cassetten der Tod der Schallplatte? (~ “Will blank tapes mark the end of vinyl?”)	Bravo	Link
1977	“Klang-Supermarkt zum Nulltarif” (~”Sound supermarket for free”)	Spiegel	Link
Late 1980s	“Anti-DAT lobbying”	Wikipedia	Link
1992	“Audio Home Recording Act”	Wikipedia	Link
2003	“Studie: Illegale Kopien sind ein internes Problem der Filmindustrie” (~”Study: Illegal Copies Are Internal Problem Of The Filmindustry”)	Heise.de	Link
2006	“Studios See Big Rise In Estimates of Losses To Movie Piracy”	Wall Street Journal	Link
2006	“Raubkopie-Studie: Hollywood verliert 6 Milliarden Dollar” (~”Illegal Copy Study: Hollywood Loses 6 Billion US$”)	Golem.de	Link
2009	“COMMENTS OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION IN RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF CONTENT IN THE BROADBAND ECOSYSTEM”	Paramount Pictures	Link
2009	“Hollywood-Studio will Suchmaschinen kontrollieren” (~”Hollywood Studio Aiming At Control Of Internet Search Engines”)	Golem.de	Link
2009	“How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers”	PCPro.co.uk	Link
2009	“Blu-ray kann weltweiten DVD-Verkaufsrückgang nicht auffangen” (~”Worldwide Blu-Ray Sales Don’t Compensate Reduced DVD Sales”)	Golem.de	Link
2009	“Blu-ray Disc zieht an – DVD-Verkäufe rückläufig” (~”Blu-Ray Sales Increasing – DVD Sales Decreasing”)	Big Screen	Link
2009	“Artists’ lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates”)	Ars Technica	Link
2009	“Sind Labels die wahren Piraten? Musiker verklagen kanadische Musikindustrie” (~”Are Labels The Real Pirates? Musicians Sue Canadian Musicindustry”)	Tom’s Hardware	Link
2010	“Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods”	U.S. Government Accountability Office	Link
2010	“Verluste durch Filesharing sind stark übertrieben” (~”Losses From File Sharing Massively Exaggerated”)	Big Screen	Link
2010	“Seagate to preload hard drives with movies”	Financial Times	Link

[PS3] GeoHot Reenables “Other OS” (Linux) Support

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What happened so far?

GeoHot has had a reverse-engineerer’s look into Sony’s high tech gadget and Sony immediately declared war.

Obviously in panic, Sony announced to deactivate Linux (Other-OS) support with their latest firmware 3.21. This was the time when people were wondering how long it would take until GeoHot would reenable it.

The magic PUP files

So it did not take too long. That notorious hacking genious did it. He says he’s using a custom PUP file. A PUP file basically is an update file for the PS3. The interesting point is usually PUP files are signed by Sony.

Speculations

Could that mean there is a major flaw in Sony’s implementation of checking the authenticity of update files (at least until firmware 3.15, which GeoHot mentions is the latest that allows to install his custom PUP).

Anyway, the next weeks will be very interesting.

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Tag Archives: zip

[Ableton] Repairing Defective ALS Files Manually

[PS3] GeoHot Reenables “Other OS” (Linux) Support

[iPhone] How Multi-Tasking is Gonna Look Like

[Muzaq] Mini Mix: Bonobo – Black Sands