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IDSA Forces Arcade Game Manual Archive Offline
AtariKee writes "The IDSA and the DMCA has struck again, this time forcing the maintainer of Stormaster.com, a coin-operated video game manual and tech information archive, to shut down. Stormaster has been an invaluable resource for collectors of classic coin-operated video games for years, and this loss further demonstrates the idiocy that is the DMCA. I can understand ROM images to some extent, but 25 year old coin-op operator/tech manuals? The full text of the IDSA's letter can be read on Stormaster's site." Previous Slashdot posts about IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association) show that this is typical of the organization.
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We must rape the forums on the ph34rb33r website, in order to deride them, and insult their lame excuse for a 'webcomic'. There are minimal forum rules in place to stop trolls over there, such as a 20 second delay until another post can be done. Obviously, this allows you to refresh the page once the 20 seconds is up, and then resend the data, so that it will be reposted. The forum in question also has image posting capabilities, allowing you to use the explicit material contained upon rotten.com and goatse.cx. In addition to all this lack of troll-protection, the forum actually allows anonymous postings! Members of TrollKore have already trolled their forums multiple times, with crapfloods and the posting of sexual imagery. The posts were deleted after around an hour, but I believe that we have put a small dint in their weak ego. Ah, did I say 'their'? I meant 'his', since he is the only one that runs the webcomic, and has no friends.
A sample of the offending content is here. Please note how the webcomic is fucking lame and unfunny, and its very existence needing to be eradicated from the Internet. Also note how the comic looks as if it was drawn by a small child (and probably was). THE INTERNET IS NO PLACE FOR A SMALL CHILD, LET ME TELL YOU, GOOD SIR! At present, this is more important than meer Slashdot, fellow trolls. You now troll for FREEDOM, FREEDOM FROM AN INTERNET WITHOUT LAMENESS FROM SUCH TWATS.
I ask you this... if the forum could be down by tomorrow, isn't that worth trolling for? ISN'T THAT WORTH CRAPFLOODING FOR?!?
I plead to you, fellow troll, this fucking LOSER has to be revealed for the motherfucker he really is.
Thank you.
TrollKore out.
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Please note how the webcomic is fucking lame and unfunny
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Sure they've taken the site and the ROM's down .. but look at this:
Note: The information transmitted in this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, reproduction, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.They've posted a confidential email to the world - they're gonna get sued bigtime now!
(OT: But didn't we used to be able to use <pre> tags?)
Somebody has hacked my loonix boxen and now my 19" screen can only display 639x481! Does any1 know how to fix. LOL thnx Euginea
Prohibited by what?
The recipient received this notice unsolicited. There was no prior agreement in place that the recipient would maintain the contents of the notice in confidence. Therefore, barring national security interests, I can't see any reason why the recipient shouldn't be free to do anything they want with the notice, including expose the sender to public ridicule and derision.
It's meaningless boilerplate.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
In related news, http://www.twistedsquare.com/ has recieved a letter accusing it of blatant and cheap advertising on slashdot ;-)
Yeah, I sure am. I flame and troll here on /. so I don't have to be one in real life. :)
perhaps you could just point out that guy's mistake instead of flying off and saying he needs to learn to read. this isnt middle school.
I could, but I get tired of the same predictable old crap the same bunch of /. dopes vomit forth when one of a certain set of subjects arises:
"AMD CPU makes a good toaster...uhuhhuhhuh..."
"I'll patent taking out stupid patents...uhuhhuhhuh..."
"Wait till that critical [windows-based app] goes bluescreen!...uhuhhuhhuh.."
"I'll copyright that patent!...uhuhhuhhuh.."
"in soviet russia [etc]...uhuhhuhhuh.."
I just get sick of the karma-whore parroting of inanities every time the one of those subject comes up. No matter how wrong/lame one of these dopes is, there's always 3 or 4 more dopes with mod points marking it "+1 insightful" and making it show up even when I'm reading at +3 or higher. This isn't middle school? Coulda' fooled me...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.