The Null Device

Nothing found for 'ritneyB': Those wacky folks at Aimster (a proprietary Windows-only Napster clone that piggybacks on top of AOL Instant Messenger) have released a Napster utility: the Aimster Pig Encoder. This encrypts the filenames in a variant of Pig Latin, an encryption scheme more secure than double-XOR and ROT26. And the nice thing is that those evil jackbooted fascists at Napster can't legally deprive you of your right to pirate the latest Eminem album because breaking the encryption to monitor your sharing habits would be a violation of the DMCA. Well, once you think about it a bit, it's actually a depressing thing, or a Kafkaesque absurdity. Oddly enough, it hasn't caught on en masse yet.

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