One of the safari-goers remembers a proscription against the poaching of wild cultural texts.
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He suggests that code is already being read in a host of discourse contexts and calls for the group to proceed on a safari for further examples of code-reading in the wild. In the second week of the Critical Code Studies Working Group, Jeremy Douglass steps between the two parties and gestures to the surrounding jungle where thousands of wild animals roam in the presence of trackers from a continent of disparate tribes, be they intellectual property lawyers, developer communities, educators, or political pundits. The division begged the question: can a critic describe cultural significance in code without misrepresenting it? In discussion of the Annakournikova virus, this rift emerged as some critics focused more on the sexual politics while others on the specifics of the technology. An over-simplification, perhaps, but one based in a potentially threatening division. Programmers tended to begin their comments, "As someone who has spent many hours wrestling with code," while cultural critics began theirs, "I am not a programmer, but." (We two fell into the latter camp.) The cultural critics seemed quick to impose meaning on the code, while the programmers expressed concern that the code was being misrepresented. Although Douglass calls these straw men, in the discussions of Week 1, working group members began to sort out into one of the two camps. They stand with one foot propped on the felled beast of their own creation, yet the cultural theorists are now also arriving with their taxonomies, eager to claim the carcass. Of course, programmers claim code for their own. It is the type of question that incites insecurity, that is designed to separate would-be collaborators, that leads to retreat behind disciplinary bulwarks. In whose domain does code lie? This question suggests and provokes a turf war that threatens to dissolve Critical Code Studies even as it is forming - a war whose drums sound in some of the comments in the Week 1 discussion. It is a commercial good, operating in a collaboratively authored, technocultural economy whose programmers are - even for the same code - celebrated and derided, fungible and irreplaceable, congratulated and scape-goated, rewarded and re-assigned by those who exchange it, who haggle with it and hack it, in the marketplace of processes. These fragments communicate differently in communities of hackers, lawyers, managers, politicians, and pundits. Those segments become matter for debate, take on a life of their own, escape the cage of the CPU and find their way out the front gate and over fences into backyard barbecue conversations over who's got the best language, Python or Java, or who's got the most elegant code. Its materiality is immaterial when discussing the ways in which segments of code circulate through culture. It makes a difference how the programmer imagined the ones who would read her code. It makes a difference who is reading it and what they know about programming. It makes a difference on which platform it is executed. It makes a difference how the code is written. It matters to the many people who program it, and to those who allow themselves to be programmed by it. With your help, I hope I am able to release a stable tool for Wm conversion.Can Critical Code Studies overcome the divide between technology workers and technocultural theorists?Ĭode matters. Thanks for the suggestions, and yes, even the problems.
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Once your whole set of keys is extracted, you will no longer need to run WM per file.įinally, I'd like to thank the people who helped me test this program. If you find a file that doesn't convert, try extracting keys wth it. Note that some WM installations will have multiple ECC key-pairs, so you will likely have to "Extract Keys" using multiple licensed files. This code does NOT allow import of KID/SID pairs to preclude its use for piracy
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While I haven't been able to support license expiration/rental detection, please don't use this to abuse rental license This program is ONLY designed and intended to enable fair-use rights to PURCHASED media. The program's functioning can be verified with "Demo" DRM files from and, as well as those from other Microsoft Solution partners. Works with both individualized content and some DRMv1 filesģ. FairUse4WM is a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization version.