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Stories · 3

  1. Hasbro Wins Against Arcade Clones

    Games · Games · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the flap-flap-flap-flap-flap dept. · 136 comments
    Masem writes "Hasbro has won a number of settlements in a pending lawsuit with numerous game makers. According to commentary in the newsgroups, most of the games here were "direct" clones of classic arcade games that Hasbro has the rights to, such as Tetris, Pac-Man, and Astroids (Some of these aquired when they bought Atari). "Direct" here being nearly the exact same gameplay, with possibly different titles and graphics, but it's hard to confirm these beyond word of mouth or titles. "

  2. FBI Shuts Down Website

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by michael · from the working-hard-against-y2k dept. · 375 comments
    An AC sent in this Village Voice story - "In a highly unusual move last week, FBI agents called mike zieper, an independent artist who goes by the name Mike Z., and "requested" that he remove his site from the Internet. When he declined, the FBI worked in tandem with the U.S. Attorney's office to persuade his Web host and its server to pull Zieper's site--18 days after it went up--without having a subpoena or court order of any kind." The site was apparently crowdedtheater.com. What annoyed the FBI? Apparently the site had a video about rioting on New Year's Eve. Will the FBI shut down every site mentioning disruption on 2000-01-01?

    Update: 11/24 08:11 by michael : One of our alert /. readers apparently saw and saved the video while the site was up, and has put up a mirror.

  3. Compaq and UNIX

    Digital · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the not-dead-yet dept. · 0 comments
    Alex Prestin writes "Seems the fears about compaq just ditching the alpha were unfounded " Read this link for assorted information about Compaq, and how it will continue to support the old Digital stuff (like VMS! What a great plan!)