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Name that antipiracy weasel, BSA asks
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Name that antipiracy weasel, BSA asks
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Cheese Weasel Day

Cheese Weasel Day 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
Apparently, April 3 has been Cheese Weasel Day since at least 1992. According to Big Wide Logic, the custom is to leave a piece of cheese under the keyboard of techies. Ironically, because Cheese Weasel Day this year occurred on the first Saturday in April, it coincided with Vermin Attraction Day . [Thanks to Mike O'Dell for the link.]...

The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing

The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing 05/29/2004 03:30 AM
Free registration required to read the commentary. Dare I say that Crispin Sartwell hates the teaching of writing in American schools? I think he has a point…

BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel

BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel 08/11/2004 06:51 PM

Microsoft antipiracy software

Microsoft antipiracy software 05/03/2004 01:04 AM
I am sure people are not very thrilled about Microsoft taking on a big brother role essentially becoming the piracy...

Congress considering two new antipiracy
bill

Congress considering two new antipiracy
bill 06/04/2004 12:06 PM

The United States Congress is considering two new bills concerning copyright infrigement.

The Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation ( PIRATE ) Act would expand the Justice Department 's power to pursue copyright infringers. In a related vein is the proposed Piracy Deterrence and Education Act , which would establish punishments for and further government abilities to pursue traders dealing in unusually high amounts of content.

(via Educause )

Senate OKs antipiracy plan

Senate OKs antipiracy plan 06/25/2004 05:20 PM
Pirate Act would let feds sue suspected pirates--raising worries about an onslaught of legal action against file swappers.

Antipiracy law heads for EU vote

Antipiracy law heads for EU vote 02/19/2004 03:33 PM
The European Parliament is set to vote next week on a controversial law that would extend companies' powers to crack down on pirates and song-swappers

Antipiracy Ad Debuts on Grammys

Antipiracy Ad Debuts on Grammys 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
People who download tunes from the Web are the targets of guilt-instilling ads to appear on the Grammys. The ad campaign's sponsor, the Recording Academy, says the spots will be run by stations as public service announcements.

Antipiracy allies: Watch out for the mob

Antipiracy allies: Watch out for the mob 03/13/2003 02:12 PM
Hollywood and Microsoft are uniting to warn Congress that their intellectual property is being stolen and resold by organized crime gangs around the globe

Lawsuit filed over CD antipiracy tech

Lawsuit filed over CD antipiracy tech 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
A French consumer organization is filing suit against EMI and a French retailer over copy protected CDs. Nothing like punishing your own customers after they buy your product.

Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools

Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools 05/02/2004 11:45 PM
The latest digital rights management technology from the software giant aims to bring music subscriptions to MP3 players and boost home networks.

Antipiracy bill targets filesharing

Antipiracy bill targets filesharing 06/18/2004 01:59 AM

Microsoft fires new antipiracy tools

Microsoft fires new antipiracy tools 05/03/2004 08:16 AM
ZDNet May 3 2004 11:47AM GMT

Microsoft set to offer antipiracy
innovation

Microsoft set to offer antipiracy
innovation 05/03/2004 01:54 PM
IHT May 3 2004 6:26PM GMT

Hollywood steps up antipiracy campaign

Hollywood steps up antipiracy campaign 06/15/2004 01:07 PM
MPAA to create student "codes of conduct" and "significantly" increase monitoring of online film trading.

Antipiracy bill targets technology

Antipiracy bill targets technology 06/17/2004 05:43 PM
Should it be legal to sell a product that can be used to violate copyrights? Some U.S. senators don't think so.

U.S. Senate approves antipiracy bill

U.S. Senate approves antipiracy bill 06/25/2004 05:26 PM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has passed a bill allowing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in addition to copyright holders, to file civil lawsuits against alleged copyright pirates, over the objections of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors.

Antipiracy bill gains new ally

Antipiracy bill gains new ally 07/21/2004 09:30 PM
The U.S. Copyright Office is expected to endorse a new bill that could imperil some forms of technology.

MPAA seeks P2P Enforcer for antipiracy
ops

MPAA seeks P2P Enforcer for antipiracy
ops 01/29/2004 09:58 AM
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Justice Department as antipiracy flak?

Justice Department as antipiracy flak? 10/30/2003 03:54 PM
U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher says adopting a proposal to let the Department of Justice steer an antipiracy campaign because of Internet file-swapping concerns would be a major error.

Bahnhof slams antipiracy ambush

Bahnhof slams antipiracy ambush 03/30/2005 09:46 AM
Swedish antipiracy agency receives death threats

Antipiracy feature shuts out customers

Antipiracy feature shuts out customers 10/31/2003 03:50 AM
ZDNet UK Oct 31 2003 3:25AM ET

Elvis Costello disclaims antipiracy
warnings on his own CD

Elvis Costello disclaims antipiracy
warnings on his own CD 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: Elvis Costello's new CD "The Delivery Man" is plastered with obnoxious FBI anti-piracy warnings. Over these is this legend: "THE ARTIST DOES NOT ENDORSE THE FOLLOWING WARNING. THE FBI DOESN'T HAVE HIS HOME PHONE NUMBER AND HE HOPES THAT THEY DON'T HAVE YOURS. Link (Thanks, Gary!)

Group cuts antipiracy software royalties

Group cuts antipiracy software royalties 04/16/2005 11:20 PM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 3:14AM GMT

Firms announce video antipiracy
technology

Firms announce video antipiracy
technology 09/10/2004 11:19 AM
CNET News.com Sep 10 2004 2:43PM GMT

Warm boot

Warm boot 09/18/2004 07:20 AM
TechTree Sep 18 2004 11:45AM GMT

Warm cowpies

Warm cowpies 03/27/2005 05:31 AM

« Viking ship scroll in Stockholm. »

It's Easter weekend and the weather has been fabulously warm and living up to the holiday's origin of being a celebration of spring before it was appropriated by the various organised religions [I remain ever puzzled why the faithful rarely wonder why all the major holidays coincide with equinoxes or solstices]. I've not been out to enjoy it as much as I might have liked as I've been busy cleaning the house, doing laundry and making kulitsa and pasha which are traditional Easter artery clogging delicacies. :) I've been wanting to make mämmi myself for the past two years but haven't yet. The HS had an article this past about a Tu nisian guy founded the Suomen Mämmiseura last year. I've definitely got to go see the mämmi eating championships next year.

Naturally the founder of Suomen Mämmiseura was also the jury chairman at the World Mämmi-Eating Championships held last weekend in a shopping mall in Toijala, a town between Hämeenlinna and Tampere.

Toijala is also incidentally home to "the world's largest mämmi factory", as you may learn if you see the product in the Finnish shops this week. Annual consumption runs to about 2 million kilos and the Toijala plant turns out around 3.5 million packets of the dessert to stores and kitchens.   

There were two competition categories: the "Camping" series and the "Salon" series. In each case the competitors had to eat two decilitres of mämmi in a manner that appealed to the panel of judges.

"In a civilised fashion!" stresses Ladarsi.

And if there is a book only about salmiakki, surely there is room for a book about mämmi. :) The HS also had an article about a mämmi making course along with a recipe that doesn't include molassas since it is considered 'cheating' to sweeten it that way. I'll try it next year....maybe. :)

This becomes mämmi

Ancient traditional delicacy was made in steaming pots helped by oven brooms

by Anna Paljakka of the Helsingin Sanomat

Greetings from a mämmi course!

The ten litre cast iron pot has never, as far as it is known, been used for anything else than cooking mämmi.

As soon as a dash of boiling water has been poured to the (bottom of the) pot, and on top of that has been sprinkled rye flour and malt, the sweet and heady smell of mämmi spreads into the room. However, work of several hours, spread over two days, awaits. The women of old didn't let themselves off easily, not in mämmi making.

We are in a traditional house at the Karjaa Folklore Society, called Antkärrgården. The participants of the mämmi course are from Swedish speaking areas, and "memma" has belonged to their lives starting from childhood.

A wood-burning oven and and two pots are being used. Two baking ovens are being preheated for the next day's bake.

Over the past weekend, birch bark pans were made with bark that was pulled from birches felled last June. It would have been wise to twist the bark into pans at that time for reasons that will become obvious later.

Can it be true that so little is needed for mämmi? Water, flour, malt, a little bit of salt, dried Seville orange peel, maybe a little bit of fresh orange peel.

"Yes, but it requires work. There is no rushing in mämmi making.", reminds the instructor of the mämmi course, a domestic science teacher, Hagar Johnsson.

The pots are stirred vigorously. "It may simmer but not boil, not even bubble," Johnsson keeps reminding us. Hot water is added carefully and once in a while a small amount of malt and flour is added, which gets swallowed by the brown, hot goo.

After three hours cooking it is time to cover the pots and leave to sweeten overnight. "Only a cheater uses syrup for mämmi.", Johnsson reminds us.

The next morning the pots are still hot, as they should be. Sweetening requires a temperature of about 50 degrees Celsisus, in which the carbohydrates are refined into sugars, Johnsson teaches us.

And stirring continues again. Now the mämmi has to boil properly to thicken.

Then the pots are lifted with iron hooks out to the stairs to cool. Now begins the insane whipping of the mämmi mass, as if exorcizing evil spirits. The idea is to get as much air as possible into the mämmi.

When the pots stop steaming, they are lifted into the snow and the whipping in high strokes goes on and on.

Inside the kitchen it looks like a witch's kitchen. The ovens are swept with a broom which has a tuft of coniferous branches at the end of a stick, much like the brooms of the Easter witches.

The best oven temperature for the success of mämmi is 180 degrees Celsius. Then one can still put one's hand into the oven and the bark pans do not burn.

They do not burn, and the bark that has been drying since the last summer is severely tested, even though the pans have been moistened. Some of the pans break, and the precious mämmi falls to the bottom of the oven. The slightly too hot oven is partly to blame.

After a couple hours of slow baking the mämmi pans are covered with foil. The afterbake is important.

Mämmi is easy to freeze. When fresh it keeps like bread.

The Norwegian Ann Lise Lövli Nilsen has also arrived at the Karjaa mämmi course. She is interested in seeing how the famous mämmi that looks like dung, but apparently tastes delicious, is made.

Lövli Nilsen is told one of the innumerable mämmi jokes, the one where a Finnish Swede named Varma Koskitar received a packet from home. The customs needed only to peek at the box and read the name of the recipient. Everything was fine: the packet said "varma koskitar" ("warm cowpats" in Swedish).

There have been attempts to make mämmi more enticing for strangers by comparing it with dark beer. The ingredients and the taste are the same.

Did you know?

Hefty traditional food

Mämmi is thought of as western Finland invention, but a sweetened grain porridge already existed in Persia.

The ancient mämmi porridge has all the properties of a catholic fasting food. It is a nutritious, tasty morsel, and is eaten especially on Good Friday, when even firemaking was forbidden at one time.

From western Finland the sweet and sour mämmi spread eastwards. The oldest literary mentions on mämmi have been found in the doctoral thesis of Daniel Juslenius, the professor from the Academy of Turku, "Aboa Vetus et nova", during the early 1700s. The Finnish-Latin-Swedish dictionary of Juslenius from 1745 mentions a Finnish delicacy, the mämmi porridge, made out of rye.

A biblical connection has also been found: the children of Israel left the slavery in Egyt so quickly that they had to grab unleavened bread dough. The Jews celebrate Passover to remember that but, in the far north, the place of unleavened bread has been replaced by a traditional food, the nutritious mämmi.

Basic Mämmi

Makes: about 6 pans

• 5 liters water
• 500g malt
• 1.5kg rye flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons powdered Seville orange peel
• (zest of 2 orange peels)

1. Add to 1 liter of boiling water, 1dl rye flour and 1 dl of malt. Stir well and be careful not to boil the mixture. Add flour and malt only once an hour. Stir again.
2. Cover the pot and leave on the stove or in a warm place for about 12 hours to allow the mixture to sweeten.
3. Add salt, Seville orange zest and, if you like, the zest of 2 orange peels. Bring to a boil and allow it to thicken.
4. Take the pot from the stove and, while cooling the mixture, whip the mämmi.
5. Fill the mämmi boxes half-full.
6. Bake at 180C (electric oven works well) for 1.5-2 hours.
7. Cover the boxes well with baking paper or foil for the afterbake.
8. Serve mämmi with milk or half&half. Taste and add sugar on top if it needs it.

Warm reception

Warm reception 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
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Keeps you warm in winter

Keeps you warm in winter 07/14/2004 10:40 PM
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Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools |
CNET News.com

Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools |
CNET News.com 05/04/2004 10:33 PM
the official unveiling of Microsoft's new DRM system, internally dubbed 'Janus' .. New Microsoft antipiracy tools are making a move today .. latest techno-attack on fair use .. This is really ironic

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Antipiracy bill targets technology |
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Antipiracy bill targets technology |
CNET News.com 06/20/2004 05:01 AM
attack technologies that "induce" reproduction of copyrighted materials .. Induce Act sponsored by Orrin Hatch .. Antipiracy bill targets technology

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Sony casts Audible Magic for antipiracy
push

Sony casts Audible Magic for antipiracy
push 05/28/2004 01:56 PM

Mobile carriers seek cheaper antipiracy
software

Mobile carriers seek cheaper antipiracy
software 04/01/2005 03:10 PM
A powerful group of mobile telecom operators wants lower prices for essential antipiracy systems, warning that high royalty payments could stifle the burgeoning digital music and video markets.

Briefly: Sony casts Audible Magic for
antipiracy

Briefly: Sony casts Audible Magic for
antipiracy 05/28/2004 01:56 PM

Follow-up: FBI raids part of worldwide
antipiracy sweep

Follow-up: FBI raids part of worldwide
antipiracy sweep 04/23/2004 12:24 PM
The raid on Wednesday which targeted the offices of an Arizona school district were part of a worldwide crackdown on piracy rings. Hardware and software valued at US$50 million was seized in 11 countries.

Warm welcome for Abbas in Gaza

Warm welcome for Abbas in Gaza 01/01/2005 02:55 PM
Mahmoud Abbas, the front-runner in the vote for a new Palestinian president, gets a rousing welcome in Gaza.
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