@stibbons @foone My favourite bit of that is he then asked the room what he should type next. The entire crowd 'reverse engineered' Biitkeeper in minutes, the entire demo undercutting all the accusations that Tridge was doing something Uber-nefarious requiring 133t hacking skills.

That was also the year of Stevens versus Sony, the High Court of Australia decision which allowed defeat of DRM and reverse engineering to achieve interoperability.