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Stories · 4
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UK Games Trade Body Criticized Over Backups
Thanks to NTK for their article about a gamer taking the UK games trade body to task over their anti-backup FAQs. According to the piece, "Rogue gamer Stuart Campbell [is] tackling [UK-based] games-biz body ELSPA, this time over the informatively incorrect FAQ on their website. 'Am I legally entitled to make a backup of my original software?' you ask; they used to unequivocally answer: 'No'." But Stuart found evidence allegedly allowing "a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to make any back-up copy of it" in a 1988 UK law, and whether definitely true or not, ELSPA have "...now modified the wording to warn against backing up the 'film and sound' copyrights which they believe games inevitably contain." Campbell was previously involved in the Fairplay campaigns against cheating slot machines and overpriced videogames. -
UK Games Trade Body Criticized Over Backups
Thanks to NTK for their article about a gamer taking the UK games trade body to task over their anti-backup FAQs. According to the piece, "Rogue gamer Stuart Campbell [is] tackling [UK-based] games-biz body ELSPA, this time over the informatively incorrect FAQ on their website. 'Am I legally entitled to make a backup of my original software?' you ask; they used to unequivocally answer: 'No'." But Stuart found evidence allegedly allowing "a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to make any back-up copy of it" in a 1988 UK law, and whether definitely true or not, ELSPA have "...now modified the wording to warn against backing up the 'film and sound' copyrights which they believe games inevitably contain." Campbell was previously involved in the Fairplay campaigns against cheating slot machines and overpriced videogames. -
Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines
ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be right, at least in the UK. This article provides proof that fruit machine outcomes are predetermined and that the players inputs have little, if anything to do with it. And it lets you download the emulators and machine code required to test the hypothesis for yourself...." -
Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines
ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be right, at least in the UK. This article provides proof that fruit machine outcomes are predetermined and that the players inputs have little, if anything to do with it. And it lets you download the emulators and machine code required to test the hypothesis for yourself...."