Content: 20241231 updates (#270)

* fix: add redirects for tag pages I killed off

* docs: removed typos

* content: broken links fixed up

* fix: redirect better on tag pages

README.md

@@ -26,10 +26,8 @@ Repo layout
 - utils
 - Makefile
 
-
 Make commands
 
-
 Usage:
 
 To run the processor which will look at general files such as sass, md etc

app/handlers/gatsby_index_redirect.mjs

@@ -20,12 +20,20 @@ export const handler = async (event) => {
     request.uri = uri.replace('{authourl}', '');
   }
 
+  if (uri.endsWith('/tagged/sms/')) {
+    request.uri = '/tagged/mobile/';
+  }
+  if (uri.endsWith('/tagged/data/')) {
+    request.uri = '/tagged/data-science/';
+  }
+
   if (request.uri.endsWith('/')) {
     request.uri += 'index.html';
   } else if (!request.uri.includes('.')) {
     request.uri += '/index.html';
   }
 
+  console.log(request.uri);
   return request;
 };
 

site/src/content/posts/2007-05-03-drmed-for-life.md

@@ -8,26 +8,70 @@ title: DRMed for Life
 tags: drm, media, piracy, rant
 ---
 
-In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy protection on [HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being cracked](http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/HNdrmhacked_1.html) but people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's position in removing said posts until the community kicked off and [they then decided they'll go down with the ship ](http://blog.digg.com/?p=74)if they got prosecuted. Hurrah for someone over there seeing sense.
+In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy
+protection on [HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being
+cracked](http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/HNdrmhacked_1.html) but
+people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's
+position in removing said posts until the community kicked off and [they then
+decided they'll go down with the ship ](http://blog.digg.com/?p=74)if they got
+prosecuted. Hurrah for someone over there seeing sense.
 
-One part of my brain always goes "Hooray for the hackers" whenever we hear stories about DRM being hacked in whatever guise it has been created. Another part of my brain, probably the more rational side I guess, does kick in afterwards and say that putting these things out in the wild will enable more software / media piracy and will incur costs for the companies that produce it which will make them either raise costs or step up counter-piracy methods. I never get to the "woe is me" stage like most media company execs do as they are truly multi-billion dollar organisations so it's hardly going to come out of the mail boy's pay cheque and they are unlikely to go bust.
+One part of my brain always goes "Hooray for the hackers" whenever we hear
+stories about DRM being hacked in whatever guise it has been created. Another
+part of my brain, probably the more rational side I guess, does kick in
+afterwards and say that putting these things out in the wild will enable more
+software / media piracy and will incur costs for the companies that produce it
+which will make them either raise costs or step up counter-piracy methods. I
+never get to the "woe is me" stage like most media company execs do as they are
+truly multi-billion dollar organisations so it's hardly going to come out of
+the mail boy's pay cheque and they are unlikely to go bust.
 
-What I do question properly though is the rationale that got us here in the first place. Since the 60s with tape-to-tape reels starting to replace vinyl records, music, film and software piracy has got bigger and bigger. What has happened though is nothing short of an arms race. Consistent through this entire arms race have been three key points:
+What I do question properly though is the rationale that got us here in the
+first place. Since the 60s with tape-to-tape reels starting to replace vinyl
+records, music, film and software piracy has got bigger and bigger. What has
+happened though is nothing short of an arms race. Consistent through this
+entire arms race have been three key points:
 
-1. That me, or anyone else, once they have bought a product has the right to play or use it for their own personal enjoyment whenever they see fit. This is the argument that most consumers will play - I might by a CD album but I want to play it on my MP3 player. I might buy a DVD but I want to play it on my Linux laptop as well as on my TV.
+1. That me, or anyone else, once they have bought a product has the right to
+   play or use it for their own personal enjoyment whenever they see fit. This
+   is the argument that most consumers will use - I might buy a CD album but I
+   want to play it on my MP3 player. I might buy a DVD but I want to play it on
+   my Linux laptop as well as on my TV.
 
-2. Companies that produce consumable media assume that anyone that wants to copy a product is inherently up to no good and they are now labelled as pirates and are probably taking the music / film / software and selling it in backstreet market stalls.
+2. Companies that produce consumable media assume that anyone that wants to
+   copy a product is inherently up to no good and they are now labelled as
+   pirates and are probably taking the music / film / software and selling it
+   in backstreet market stalls.
 
-3. The profligacy of piracy is directly related to the first two points and how policed piracy is within the community.
+3. The profligacy of piracy is directly related to the first two points and how
+   policed piracy is within the community.
 
-One can directly see that paid for knock off copies of movies and music is completely against the law as you are selling someone's work and is tantamount to counterfeiting. However the framework for dealing with these people exists within the law and we are starting to see this go down.
+One can directly see that paid for knock off copies of movies and music is
+completely against the law as you are selling someone's work and is tantamount
+to counterfeiting. However, a framework for dealing with these people exists
+within the law and we are starting to see this go down.
 
-The media companies will tell you that it's because of their anti-copy protection, however in reality it is because of better policing and it being viewed as being a black market operation and it having been historically a move away from "hard crimes" that has occured over the last 20 years.
+The media companies will tell you that it's because of their anti-copy
+protection, however in reality it is because of better policing and it being
+viewed as a black market operation and it having been historically a move
+away from "hard crimes" that has occured over the last 20 years.
 
-This argument doesn't wash at all with consumers. Once I purchase a peice of media it is mine to use how I want on whatever device I want.
+This argument doesn't wash at all with consumers. Once I purchase a peice of
+media it is mine to use how I want on whatever device I choose.
 
-The barriers that are being put up by the media companies in their zero tolerance to consumers is assuring their position as the "big bad ogre" in all of this. Were they to engage with the consumers who are most likely to want to move content from one form to another they would probably be able to reach a solution.
+The barriers that are being put up by the media companies in their zero
+tolerance to consumers is assuring their position as the "big bad ogre" in all
+of this. Were they to engage with the consumers who are most likely to want to
+move content from one form to another they would probably be able to reach a
+solution.
 
-Indeed were they to strip all DRM from their content altogether and then spend the money on producing better content or else supporting better policing they would probably turn a larger profit.
+Indeed were they to strip all DRM from their content altogether and then spend
+the money on producing better content or else supporting better policing they
+would probably turn a larger profit.
 
-In the words of Nixon, "I am not a crook" - but I do want to watch Spiderman 3 when it comes out possibly on my TV from my XBOX, on my Linux Laptop, Windows Media centre and my PDA. At the moment I'll be lucky if one of those four work so I probably won't buy it at all.
+In the words of Nixon, "I am not a crook" - but I do want to watch Spiderman 3
+when it comes out possibly on my TV from my XBOX, on my Linux Laptop, Windows
+Media centre and my PDA. At the moment I'll be lucky if one of those four work
+so I probably won't buy it at all.
+
+_Update 2024-12-31: Minor edits to fix typos and broken links_

site/src/content/posts/2008-02-20-dvd-jon-strikes-again.md

@@ -8,24 +8,60 @@ large-title: true
 tags: drm, media, piracy, rant
 ---
 
-[DVD Jon or Jon Lech Johansen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen) as he is more commonly known gets a lot of love here. This great Norwegian famously broke the DVD encryption put in place by the big firms with the release of some software primarily aimed at allowing DVDs to be played on computers and unlocking the regionality of DVDs and DVD players.
+[DVD Jon or Jon Lech Johansen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen)
+as he is more commonly known gets a lot of love here. This great Norwegian
+famously broke the DVD encryption put in place by the big firms with the
+release of some software primarily aimed at allowing DVDs to be played on
+computers and unlocking the regionality of DVDs and DVD players.
 
-When he released DeCSS he ran afoul of the [US DMCA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA) and was almost charged, he was then indicted by Norwegian authorities acting on behalf of the US who actually did go to court twice to try and convict him of hacking. Both times they failed and decided not to go to the Supreme Court.
+When he released DeCSS he ran afoul of the [US
+DMCA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA) and was almost charged, he was then
+indicted by Norwegian authorities acting on behalf of the US who actually did
+go to court twice to try and convict him of hacking. Both times they failed and
+decided not to go to the Supreme Court.
 
-Imagine our complete amusement in the office when we find out he's now trying it on with Apple via iTunes.
+Imagine our complete amusement in the office when we find out he's now trying
+it on with Apple via iTunes.
 
-iTunes is a love it or hate it product - if you are part of the Apple / Steve Jobs faithful it is obviously the greatest thing on earth, if you know nothing about technology it's a simple product that allows you to use one of those "fangled new digital music type thingies".
+iTunes is a love it or hate it product - if you are part of the Apple / Steve
+Jobs faithful it is obviously the greatest thing on earth, if you know nothing
+about technology it's a simple product that allows you to use one of those
+"fangled new digital music type thingies".
 
-If you are a techie you see it as a proprietary lock in and try and avoid it like the plague. The main issue for most techies is you can't play your music on anything other than your PC / Mac that has iTunes installed and your iPod / iPhone / iTouch.
+If you are a techie you see it as a proprietary lock in and try and avoid it
+like the plague. The main issue for most techies is you can't play your music
+on anything other than your PC / Mac that has iTunes installed and your iPod /
+iPhone / iTouch.
 
-I've [railed against lock in](/2007/05/drmed-for-life/) for time immemorial - just a quick count of my personal items puts the following music players at my disposal - mobile phone (x2 because my wife has one that can play music too), MP3 capable stereo, PC (x3 - my office, my home and laptop), PSP, Xbox, a real MP3 player and my Nokia Internet Tablet - 10 devices at my personal disposal that I want to play music from and indeed do play music from.
+I've [railed against lock in](/2007/05/03/drmed-for-life/) for time immemorial -
+just a quick count of my personal items puts the following music players at
+my disposal - mobile phone (x2 because my wife has one that can play music
+too), MP3 capable stereo, PC (x3 - my office, my home and laptop), PSP, Xbox, a
+real MP3 player and my Nokia Internet Tablet - 10 devices at my personal
+disposal that I want to play music from and indeed do play music from.
 
-The thing is, I know how to do all of this so I just push the files around on memory cards or over my network (streaming from my media server for example) onto the various devices. For many people this isn't possible and Apple's enforcement of the iTunes lock ins firmly violate the right I have to play my music (or video) on whatever device I choose at whatever time I choose. I also vote with my wallet and don't buy tunes from Apple.
+The thing is, I know how to do all of this so I just push the files around on
+memory cards or over my network (streaming from my media server for example)
+onto the various devices. For many people this isn't possible and Apple's
+enforcement of the iTunes lock ins firmly violate the right I have to play my
+music (or video) on whatever device I choose at whatever time I choose. I also
+vote with my wallet and don't buy tunes from Apple.
 
-What DVD Jon has done with his software (available from [DoubleTwist](http://www.doubletwistventures.com/dt/Home/Index.dt) for free) is allow you to take files that are locked into iTunes and essentially it plays the file, re-encoding it into a format you can play on other devices (I haven't looked properly but presumably OGG or MP3).
+What DVD Jon has done with his software (available from
+[DoubleTwist](http://www.doubletwistventures.com/dt/Home/Index.dt) for free) is
+allow you to take files that are locked into iTunes and essentially it plays
+the file, re-encoding it into a format you can play on other devices (I haven't
+looked properly but presumably OGG or MP3).
 
-Just to rub salt into the wound he's going to cause Apple and the US music industry he's decided to let you share your files with friends as well. One wonders how long it will be before a writ arrive from the RIAA and Apple... I'm sure they'll be racing to get in first.
+Just to rub salt into the wound he's going to cause Apple and the US music
+industry, he's decided to let you share your files with friends as well. One
+wonders how long it will be before a writ arrive from the RIAA and Apple... I'm
+sure they'll be racing to get in first.
 
-So well done Jon - keep up the good work and keep fighting the good fight - media we have legitimately purchased is ours to use on any device we own for our personal use.
+So well done Jon - keep up the good work and keep fighting the good fight -
+media we have legitimately purchased is ours to use on any device we own for
+our personal use.
 
-Eventually the media industry will wake up and realise where they've been going wrong. Perhaps if EMI had taken notice of the way the world was going they wouldn't have had to cull a couple of thousand staff.
+Eventually the media industry will wake up and realise where they've been going
+wrong. Perhaps if EMI had taken notice of the way the world was going they
+wouldn't have had to cull a couple of thousand staff.