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wiggles writes "It appears that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Blizzard/Vivendi (pdf link) in the ongoing bnetd case. According to the PDF of the opinion posted today, 'Appellants failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact as to the applicability of the interoperability exception [of the DMCA]. The district court properly granted summary judgement in favor of Blizzard and Vivendi on the operability exception. Summary judgement in favor of Blizzard and Vivendi is affirmed.' No word yet on the EFF's website as to what their next move will be."
Michael Sims Fired, Joins GNAA to Troll Slashdot Full Time
FREMONT, CA (TECHNEWS) - After a heated debate at Slashdot executive offices, editor Michael Sims was locked out of the building and departed in a tirade of lisping insults, vowing revenge immediately. This morning, industry sources revealed that Sims has joined the infamous trolling organization Gay Nigger Association of America with the intent of trolling Slashdot fulltime.
In a short phone interview with Technews, Sims asserted that he was calm but resolved on his course of action. "The Slashdot editors and I had a disagreement," he explained. "I did it all for the users, but they..." he drew the syllable out painfully, resting on a case full of Little League trophies and certificates of participation from transgendered dating services, "They just couldn't take my truth. They were -- babies, just babies, oh, the horror, the abomination," he said, before being led away by three white-clad male nurses.
According to Harvard Psychology Professor Arnold Rothstahlberg, "trolling" is an internet phenomenon where dissenting users disrupt a site by flooding it with absurd or paradoxical information. "It satisfies the primal id," he said, chewing on a large, bulbous, phallic black cigar. "To justify themselves by forcing their enemies into hysterics. It's a compensatory mechanism much like getting back at the kids who beat you up in high school by installing Linux and using it to pingflood their XP boxes and Macs."
Slashdot editor CmdrTaco was reticent to comment. At an interview conducted in the crap-filled Ann Arbor bungalow he shares with his wife, to whom he proposed over Slashdot, he said, "Well, you know, Slashdot is just a web site. Michael should calm down about this. But if he doesn't, our corporate sponsors will sue him until he's giving $4 blowjobs on Haight Street."
From the GNAA corporate headquarters, a mysterious floating island off the coast of Newfoundland that few reporters have seen and even fewer have returned from with their sexual identities intact, GNAA "Head Programmer" timecop said he was glad to have Sims on hand. "From what I've seen of his postings on Slashdot," said timecop, "he's a total fag. Which is convenient as all our halfops need anal, and I can't handle the drama. That's what's worst about the net: the drama."
Sims has been involved in previous internet firefights, most notably the controversy over the censorware.org website in 2001. While Sims alleges that the site was his creation that was sabotaged by others, his coworkers disagree. Bennett Haselton, security consultant for the "Anarchy Anal" and "Chaos Cumshot" websites, said of Sims, "We set up this website, and left him the password. We have a disagreement, bam, the website goes down and someone raped my two-week-old Labrador puppy with an iPod."
Slashdot Editor CowboyNeal, who was entangled in a whale net after attempting to swim the English channel, spoke fondly of his former coworker. "Michael always brought a certain passion to the work, a passion that was easily ignited and led to many sweaty sessions in the corporate washroom," he said. "I'm not at all surprised he joined an organization of gay niggers. He always like something different and unique in his pasta salads."
Programmer Seth Finkelstein alleges that Sims is "totally unstable" and agreed readily to this interview. "Of course, I'm a disinterested observer," he said. "But anytime I see that closet psychopath and monkey nut-muncher stealing the spotlight from hardworking programmers like myself, I have to speak up, for the benefit of the people, of course," he said. Technews reporters were permitted to leave the premises only after making a PayPal donation to Finkelstein.
Mike Godwin of the EFF, who balances a career as privacy advocate with his hobby of making videos of teen swingers blowing goats, agreed. "I've never met another editor like Michael," he said
whoever is better at threatening jurors, or bribing judges.
You fuckwit, go back to your limp pr0n. Some of us like to play private games with people we know, we call them "friends". See, we like to get together in a chat room and one of us will startup a bnetd server, then the rest of us join it and don't have to deal with shit heads like you while we zerg rush and hack our way through dungeons.
Shit, some of us even have legit copies, we just hate dealing with assclowns on Battlenet.
Okay, no one ever said entertainment software has to be free, nor should it. It has such a short life, that they can't make money on it if someone else is assisting the piracy efforts and allowing illegal players to play for free. The problem here is that people here assume all software should be free, unless they wrote it or need to make a living on it. I'm all for OSS, believe me, but you can't force EVERYONE to give away their time and effort.
Yes, OS's should be free and open, but this is really no different than someone pirating a movie and then doing public theater shows of it next door to the pay theater. It's fine to make your OWN software free, but taking someone elses and distributing it freely (or allowing and encouraging piracy which is exactly what bnetd did) is not appropriate. Since it is free to play on battle.net with a LEGAL copy, it's highly skeptical that it had another purpose, no matter the "disclaimer" that may be attached.
Microsoft Sucks, F/OSS Rocks. I get mod points now right?
GPL is a distribution license not a eula you fucktard
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
"In Australia we have the right to reverse engineer for interoperability, regardless of whether or not we have entered into a contract that says we won't."
That's because Austrailia is a lot different from Corporate America. Where do you think the term "Corporate America" came from?
Austrailia's government isn't in the coat pocket of the countries corporations [yet].
You don't even know what you're arguing Hamburgerman.
There is no market for non-Apple PPC machines, and haven't been any around since 1997. At the same time, I'm sure I could dig up a device with a x86 processor that can't run Windows. WTF is your point?
There is no restriction on viewing movies because there is no reason to; copyright applies to copying. WTF is your point?
Copyright doesn't grant users anything. It protect the owner of the copyright from infringing use.
Apple making their next OS run only on their own hardware has nothing to do with copyright. Trying to run it on a PC would not be a copyright infringement, it would be a licensing infringement.
A EULA is only "not recognized as a contract" by the same reality-free kooks who don't recognize the IRS.
And in any event, a EULA doesn't rescind your rights, because you don't have inalienable rights to use others' intellectual property to start with. You only gain the use rights you contract for by agreeing to purchase it, and the EULA spells out what limited rights you get.
Handing money for a box at CompUSA isn't a contract use agreement, the EULA is. The EULA doesn't magically jump in and limit your rights when you open the package, it spells out the buyer's agreement in using the software. If you can't live by the EULA, you take it back.
Where did you get the idea that copyright has anything to do with anything apart from the rights to copy?
Stop saying that word, because you obviously have no idea what it means.
When you license intellectual property, you do so at the mercy of the owner of the work. If you don't like their terms and conditions and price, you go elsewhere or write your own software.
If you are buying a hamburger, and decide that Burger King is selling their burgers for too much money, you don't have any inalienable rights to get a burger anyway, at whatever price you like. You'll have to try Wendys or make your own sandwich at home.
If you want to rent an apartment, and find they don't allow pets, you don't have inalienable rights to breed puppies there either. You find another place.
What is so hard to figure out? What are you, seven?