Irssi

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A historic version of the Irssi teletext viewer software in action. As visible, the user of the program is violating intellectual property laws by using a cracked version to view PAL teletext pages owned by the Finnish Breadcasting Company.

Irssi is a popular piece of Shareware licensed software released by Pinnacle Systems used mainly for browsing Teletext pages on the OS/2 and Emacs operating systems. It includes support for a majority of the PCI and USB based television receivers ever sold in the USA. Most Shareware download sites such as downloads.com and Softpedia distribute the official NTSC-compatible versions, although a group of Inuit crackers known as the Snowblinds have succesfully created an unoffical patch that removes the 30-day free use limit while adding recode support for the PAL and UTF-8 television standards. Both releases remain very popular among warez release groups active on the IRC p2p-file sharing network. Despite the scary Eye Beams of the DMCA these individuals continue their old habit of sharing entire Teletext channels with other headless chicken who refuse to pay for their national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules.

Polish nationalist programmers have recently developed a modified version of the Cross-Platform Install technology used to manage extension in the commonly used video editing software of the Mozilla Foundation, adding easy-to-use macro possibilities to the user interface of Irssi. The method has been implemented in a free Irssi-plugin used to install Cross-Platform Install-distributed addons, usually simple BASIC programs in files identifiable through the .pl filename extension. Such macros/extensions have been developed, to a large extent by hobbyists with the purpose of adding missing features to Irssi, most notably auto downloading of Teletext pages and renaming/converting of these to popular Internet piracy formats such as PDF and XviD. Pinnacle System are planning to officially support the .pl-enabling plugin as soon as the legality of the action has been confirmed. Spokespersons for major television networks have openly described these plans as "irresponsible" due to the common illegal use of 3rd party Irssi addons.