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Re:MMO*** by ruemere · 2009-05-21 22:06 · Score: 4, Informative · on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs

Dude,

you're approaching to this in the worst way possible.

Firstly, all campaigns require 50 EUR (or less, if you buy with discount). Why buy unlock packs when you can have everything you need for slightly more (or less, with discounts) along with all campaign content?

Secondly, to unlock 8 specific skills, you need, in the worst scenario, 10K points in Balthasar faction. This is an hour of enjoyable Jade Quarry play. You don't need to unlock all skills, merely those you wish to use.

Thirdly, for guidance and support of community, there are two important sites to get your started (and save from some common mistakes):
http://wiki.guildwars.com/
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/
http://pvx.wikia.com/

Regards,
Ruemere

Reposted by request by alphastar · 2009-01-26 11:59 · Score: 1 · on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes?

The following is a post from the source message board reposted here at the request of the author.

Author: themagicbean
Post Date: 1/25/2008, 17:34 [-6:00]
Source: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4464985&postcount=65

1. IAAL, (who has both prosecuted and presented continuing education on copright) which you can tell by:

2. Disclaimer: No attorney-client relationsihp is formed by the dissemination of the following information. If you actually wish to pursue any legal action contact an attorney in your jurisdiction first.

3. A school official (administrator/teacher/etc.) needs reasonable cause to search or seize a student/his belongings.

4. If it was a notebook provided by the school, no violation of rights. If it was your notebook, she took your stuff, that is theft (a crime) and conversion (or trespass to chattels), both torts (civil wrongs).

5. In any case, the entry of the backpack is probably not justified--unless she first asked you to return the school's notebook and you didn't give it back and she had cause to suspect it was in your pack.

6. All the copyright ranters (mostly on Slashdot): First, copyright is irrelevant to the physical object theft and the invasion of privacy. Even if we assume the student had no copyright and the teacher had copyright in the information in the notebook, the physical object can't just be seized by a private party without court order. Yes, when copyright is infringed a plaintiff can file suit and obtain a court order allowing seizure and/or destruction of the property but, before the court orders that seizure or destruction, the property is still the defendant's. The feds (or other law enforcers), if dealing with criminal copyright investigations can seize earlier (e.g., searching a house with a warrant and taking out the computers used to distribute copies of a movie without permission), but you weren't dealing with the feds.
In any case ...

7. There's nothing to indicate a plausible allegation of infringment (see 8), much less criminal infringment (willful infringment for personal gain).

8. In fact, it's most likely that the copyright belongs to the student. The teacher is communicating information. The student arranges that information in his notes, selecting and storing what information to keep and in what order. This makes the student the copyright holder of the arrangment of the information. To those who would argue it is the teacher's or textbook's information: remember (section 102(b)) what isn't copyrightable--processes, orders, etc ... and factual information is generally not the subject of copyright under the merger/scenes a faire doctrines ... thus the teacher and textbook publisher had thin copyrights in their publications/assertions (protecting their arrangments and annotations) and the students arrangment of that information is his copyright. (To those who said the teacher cannot copyright her work it's the US Government--federal--that cannot under Title 17. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any law extending that to the states (or cities or smaller governments or parts thereof such as school districts but if you would care to correct me, I welcome you to do so (subject to the restriction in the next paragraph).)

9. Please do not respond to any part of this telling me I'm wrong unless you, too, have a bar card. (I have simplified a few things, yes, but the rules are right.)

10. Please someone post this on the Slashdot thread as /. is not letting me log in right now.

11. What you need to do: 1. Get your parents on your side. 2. Talk to higher school officials (VP/Principal/Dean/maybe even superintendant if not pleased).

12. It actually may be worth it to make a case out of it if the teacher teaches enough students (class action civil rights lawsuit). See paragraph 2.

Re:Pay for Knowledge by commodore64_love · 2009-01-26 08:33 · Score: 1 · on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes?

Well as it turns-out, I was wrong. The "government employees cannot copyright their works" has not been extended to the state schools; only the schools owned by the U.S. Here's an informative post from the original forum: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4464985&postcount=65

Pay special attention to point 8:

FROM themagicbean