345: 1337: Part 5 - Revision history

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42.book.addict: added Category:DRM using HotCat

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172.70.90.143: /* Explanation */ Corrected the target of the Your Mom jokes, and thus why the personalised form of retribution in response...

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‎Explanation: Corrected the target of the Your Mom jokes, and thus why the personalised form of retribution in response...

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 * [[345: 1337: Part 5]]
-[[Richard Stallman]] is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}; he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]). In the previous part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.
+[[Richard Stallman]] is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}; he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]). In the previous part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.
 Just when the two men have been defeated, Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble, and he tells it was his friend who told him about it. Climbing down a rope from the sky, the friend enters with a red cape and goggles. It turns out it is [[Cory Doctorow]], a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w|Creative Commons}} organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but [[Randall]] introduced this idea in [[239: Blagofaire]] and has continued it in later [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]. So he is climbing down from his balloon. He uses the balloon to construct the {{w|Blogosphere}}, which is a name used to refer to all blogs on the Internet, many of which frequently link to and refer to other blogs. Here, the Stallman character talks about it as though Cory Doctorow actually constructs it, as if it were a portion of the atmosphere 20 km up over the tag clouds.
-Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A {{w|tag cloud}} is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere. At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts is still programming while this fight and discussion take place. Her son [[Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but she tells him that she does not have time when she is coding, and that he ate yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be shorter than his mom (we see in Part 2 that, from age 11, she studied with [[Donald Knuth]] for four years, making her 15 when she left. However, it is not clear how long she was away from home after that).
+Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A {{w|tag cloud}} is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere. At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts is still programming while this fight and discussion take place. Her son [[Little Bobby Tables]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but she tells him that she does not have time when she is coding, and that he ate yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be shorter than his mom (we see in Part 2 that, from age 11, she studied with [[Donald Knuth]] for four years, making her 15 when she left. However, it is not clear how long she was away from home after that).
 Stallman gives Elaine a proposal to join {{w|GNU}} as a coder. GNU is supposed to be the pinnacle of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything they want about the computer. Stallman likely wants Elaine for her coding abilities, similar devotion to free software, and use her reputation as a hacker and open-source pioneer to spread the word and further his project. This may also be a reference to the infamous "{{w|Free Software Song}}", sung by Stallman in which he exhorts hackers to "join us now and share the software." But she is not ready yet, as she wished to take down the industry of MPAA and RIAA as ''Music doesn't need these assholes.'' In the meantime, Cory Doctorow throws the bowler hat guys out and orders them never to "darken our comment threads again."
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 [[Category:Comics sharing name|1337]]
 [[Category:Comics with color]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Elaine Roberts]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] <!--Not the kid, he is Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--, but the narrator as per. part 2 who tells the epilogue is Cueball ans thus he is in this comic-->
+[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] <!--Not the kid, he is Little Bobby Tables, but the narrator as per. part 2 who tells the epilogue is Cueball and thus he is in this comic-->
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Mrs. Roberts]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Little Bobby Tables]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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 {{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online illegal market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns, and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this illegal market did not exist until four years after this comic was published. In the epilogue, several items of interest are revealed about the Roberts’ later lives. Elaine shared her ideas with {{w|Bram Cohen}}, who went on from that to found {{w|BitTorrent}}, a distributed method of downloading files. People can and do use BitTorrent both for lawful file downloads and also for sharing media files unlawfully. Its distributed nature, where someone does not download a file from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry groups to police, and therefore a person with Elaine's motivations might be interested in helping design such a system.
-Mrs. Roberts developed for {{w|Ubuntu}}, which is probably the most well-known distribution of GNU/{{w|Linux}}. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux {{w|kernel}}. She also went after any website (defacing them) that made {{w|Your Mom|''Your'' mom}} jokes about her daughter. To deface a website is like putting up graffiti or tearing down signs; she likely replaces the URL's content from the original site to another image, text box, or other message as revenge. This is a [[:Category:Your Mom|recurring theme]] on xkcd. Defacing websites is generally considered a low-level hacking activity, generally carried out by script kiddies using pre-packaged exploits rather than by highly skilled hackers like Elaine.
+Mrs. Roberts developed for {{w|Ubuntu}}, which is probably the most well-known distribution of GNU/{{w|Linux}}. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux {{w|kernel}}. She also went after any website (defacing them) that made {{w|Your Mom|''Your'' mom}} jokes to her daughter (hence being ''about'' herself, for which she clearly feels justified to retaliatiate in her own particular way). To deface a website is like putting up graffiti or tearing down signs; she likely replaces the URL's content from the original site to another image, text box, or other message as revenge. This is a [[:Category:Your Mom|recurring theme]] on xkcd. Defacing websites is generally considered a low-level hacking activity, generally carried out by script kiddies using pre-packaged exploits rather than by highly skilled hackers like Elaine.
 Finally, a bit more info is given on how Elaine continues her fight: she joins random communities, helps with code, and mysteriously moves on. Sometimes she streams her music live on an IP address, and if you happen to find one of these with a streaming audio player, you can hear her rock out (a reference to her music career mentioned at the end of the third part). The final phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman.

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 ==Explanation==
-This is the fifth and last part of five in the "[[:Category:1337|1337]]" series. The title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on other early text messaging systems), meant to provide a bit of {{w|obfuscation}} to plain text both to make it harder to read (and potentially 'grep' for incriminating terms) and to show off in a creative way using in-group jargon.
+This is the fifth and last part of five in the "[[:Category:1337|1337]]" series. The title 1337 is "L-eet," or "elite," using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet, a coding system used primarily on the internet (and on other early text messaging systems), meant to provide a bit of {{w|obfuscation}} to plain text both to make it harder to read (and potentially 'grep' for incriminating terms) and to show off in a creative way using in-group jargon. The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2 comic, but that Cueball is not shown here, but still he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.
-All comics in the series:
+This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday to Friday) and not over the usual schedule of three comics a week. These are all the comics in [[:Category:1337|1337 series]]:
-*[[341: 1337: Part 1]]
+* [[341: 1337: Part 1]]
-*[[342: 1337: Part 2]]
+* [[342: 1337: Part 2]]
-*[[343: 1337: Part 3]]
+* [[343: 1337: Part 3]]
-*[[344: 1337: Part 4]]
+* [[344: 1337: Part 4]]
-*[[345: 1337: Part 5]]
+* [[345: 1337: Part 5]]
 [[Richard Stallman]] is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}; he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]). In the previous part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.

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 The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2 comic, but that Cueball is not shown here, but still he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.
-{{w|Richard Stallman}} is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}; he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]).
+[[Richard Stallman]] is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}; he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]). In the previous part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.
-In the previous part, he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats who represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.
+Just when the two men have been defeated, Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble, and he tells it was his friend who told him about it. Climbing down a rope from the sky, the friend enters with a red cape and goggles. It turns out it is {{w|Cory Doctorow}}, a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w|Creative Commons}} organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but [[Randall]] introduced this idea in [[239: Blagofaire]] and has continued it in later [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]. So he is climbing down from his balloon. He uses the balloon to construct the {{w|Blogosphere}}, which is a name used to refer to all blogs on the Internet, many of which frequently link to and refer to other blogs. Here, the Stallman character talks about it as though Cory Doctorow actually constructs it, as if it were a portion of the atmosphere 20 km up over the tag clouds.
-Just when the two men have been defeated, Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble, and he tells it was his friend who told him about it. Climbing down a rope from the sky, the friend enters with a red cape and goggles. It turns out it is {{w|Cory Doctorow}}, a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w|Creative Commons}} organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but [[Randall]] introduced this idea in [[239: Blagofaire]] and has continued it in later [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]. So he is climbing down from his balloon.
+Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A {{w|tag cloud}} is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere. At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts is still programming while this fight and discussion take place. Her son [[Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but she tells him that she does not have time when she is coding, and that he ate yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be shorter than his mom (we see in Part 2 that, from age 11, she studied with [[Donald Knuth]] for four years, making her 15 when she left. However, it is not clear how long she was away from home after that).
 Stallman gives Elaine a proposal to join {{w|GNU}} as a coder. GNU is supposed to be the pinnacle of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything they want about the computer. Stallman likely wants Elaine for her coding abilities, similar devotion to free software, and use her reputation as a hacker and open-source pioneer to spread the word and further his project. This may also be a reference to the infamous "{{w|Free Software Song}}", sung by Stallman in which he exhorts hackers to "join us now and share the software." But she is not ready yet, as she wished to take down the industry of MPAA and RIAA as ''Music doesn't need these assholes.'' In the meantime, Cory Doctorow throws the bowler hat guys out and orders them never to "darken our comment threads again."
-Stallman is against her idea of going for straight war with the industry, and suggests that she help encourage sharing in the public mind. And then Doctorow chimes in with a suggestion that she has the ability to build better {{w|P2P}} systems, to which she asks if they mean straight up piracy. And this leads up to the punch line of the series, when Doctorow says she (i.e. "[Ms] Roberts"), would make a wonderful Dread Pirate!
+Stallman is against her idea of going for straight war with the industry and suggests that she help encourage sharing in the public mind. And then Doctorow chimes in with a suggestion that she has the ability to build better {{w|P2P}} systems, to which she asks if they mean straight up piracy. And this leads up to the punch line of the series, when Doctorow says she (i.e. "[Ms] Roberts"), would make a wonderful Dread Pirate! Peer-to-peer, often abbreviated P2P, is a network system where tasks are partitioned between participants with equal privileges, in contrast with the client-server model, where the client makes requests, and the server provides service. A common example of a peer-to-peer system is the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, which is often (mis)used for distribution of pirated software and media.
 The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on the seas. But, "Dread Pirate Roberts" is merely a title that has been passed down as previous "Roberts" have gained enough money (from piracy) to retire comfortably. Westley, one of the main characters from The Princess Bride, becomes the Dread Pirate after being taken prisoner by the preceding Pirate Roberts. It is anyone's guess whether the entire 5-comic story, starting from the choice of Mrs. Roberts' name, began as just a lead-up to this one joke. At the end of the movie, Inigo Montoya has won the vengeance he has sought all his life, and expresses to Westley that he doesn't know what to do next. Westley suggests Montoya succeed him as Roberts, saying, "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie.
-{{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online black market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns, and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this black market did not exist until four years after this comic was published.
+{{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online illegal market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns, and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this illegal market did not exist until four years after this comic was published. In the epilogue, several items of interest are revealed about the Roberts’ later lives. Elaine shared her ideas with {{w|Bram Cohen}}, who went on from that to found {{w|BitTorrent}}, a distributed method of downloading files. People can and do use BitTorrent both for lawful file downloads and also for sharing media files unlawfully. Its distributed nature, where someone does not download a file from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry groups to police, and therefore a person with Elaine's motivations might be interested in helping design such a system.
-The final phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman.
+Mrs. Roberts developed for {{w|Ubuntu}}, which is probably the most well-known distribution of GNU/{{w|Linux}}. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux {{w|kernel}}. She also went after any website (defacing them) that made {{w|Your Mom|''Your'' mom}} jokes about her daughter. To deface a website is like putting up graffiti or tearing down signs; she likely replaces the URL's content from the original site to another image, text box, or other message as revenge. This is a [[:Category:Your Mom|recurring theme]] on xkcd. Defacing websites is generally considered a low-level hacking activity, generally carried out by script kiddies using pre-packaged exploits rather than by highly skilled hackers like Elaine.
-The title text is likely referring to the argument over {{w|Digital Rights Management}}, or DRM-locked content. These so-called 'DRM wars' are concerned about how DRM restricts the freedoms of people who buy them legitimately, and how it restricts creativity and innovation on the Internet. A large part of the debate is digital music, or music you would buy and download on the Internet through sites like Amazon or iTunes. The title text states that the DRM wars will end in the next decade or so, and we are living through very exciting times as we can see these wars unfold and eventually end.
+Finally, a bit more info is given on how Elaine continues her fight: she joins random communities, helps with code, and mysteriously moves on. Sometimes she streams her music live on an IP address, and if you happen to find one of these with a streaming audio player, you can hear her rock out (a reference to her music career mentioned at the end of the third part). The final phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman.
-In 2009, iTunes did remove DRM from any music they sold, which was a huge milestone at the time. Due to the rise in music streaming services (all of which use DRM to keep clients from downloading their songs) in the mid- to late 2010s, this achievement has been made void again.
+The title text is likely referring to the argument over {{w|Digital Rights Management}}, or DRM-locked content. These so-called "DRM wars" are concerned about how DRM restricts the freedoms of people who buy them legitimately, and how it restricts creativity and innovation on the Internet. A large part of the debate is digital music, or music you would buy and download on the Internet through sites like Amazon or iTunes. The title text states that the DRM wars will end in the next decade or so, and we are living through exciting times as we can see these wars unfold and eventually end. In 2009, iTunes did remove DRM from any music they sold, which was a huge milestone at the time. Due to the rise in music streaming services (all of which use DRM to keep clients from downloading their songs) in the mid- to late 2010s, this achievement has been made void again.
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