Tools

[The entertainment industry] can't eliminate [consumers rights/fair use] legally, because it would violate too many of the fundamentals of our society, so they are restricting the technology so you can't EXERCISE that right. In the process they ARE violating the fundamentals on which a stable and just society is based. But as long as society survives until after they're dead, they don't seem to care about its long-term stability.
John Gilmore

This section is largely gone. It used to host many tools and utilities, but for reasons of legality, bandwidth and blueyonder's unbelieveably assymetric connection (27:1!), its more or less gone. Those utilities which I have are linked to from the articles describing the copy-protection system which they are intended to break, and may be found on my home-server, http://sharedserv.no-ip.org/drm_bits/dl/.

Finally, here is version 1.1 of ASFview. This program gives you very detailed information on the headers in the evil ASF, WMA or WMV files.

So many networks now, but which is right for you? Look here for a review of the larger networks, includeing a breakdown of spyware/adware.