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Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers (arstechnica.com)
Kyle Orland reports via Ars Technica: A group of video game preservationists wants the legal right to replicate "abandoned" servers in order to re-enable defunct online multiplayer gameplay for study. The game industry says those efforts would hurt their business, allow the theft of their copyrighted content, and essentially let researchers "blur the line between preservation and play." Both sides are arguing their case to the U.S. Copyright Office right now, submitting lengthy comments on the subject as part of the Copyright Register's triennial review of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Analyzing the arguments on both sides shows how passionate both industry and academia are about the issue, and how mistrust and misunderstanding seem to have infected the debate.
Actually people came out to vote in droves. Just not for your candidate.
It's called democracy.
The solution is to give teachers consealed AR-15's with extendos. Can't see a teacher ever snapping, so this idea is sound.
I voted by mail so I could stay at home and jack off.
I also care about treason, which is why I would love to see HRC, the DNC, and many of the Obama administration (perhaps even Obama himself) brought up on charges of treason.
After all, it's already been proven that HRC and the DNC paid a law firm to hire GPS Fusion to hire a British spy to work with Russians to create a fake dossier on Trump to leak to Yahoo for self-corroboration when presenting it under false pretenses to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on Trump and his campaign in order to undermine the election. All of this occurred under the nose of the Obama administration with many in the FBI and justice department not only aware of the goings on but deeply involved in the conspiracy as well as planning an "insurance policy" on top of it.
But hey, RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION, right?
Voter turnout was 55.7% (see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...).
It is not a record low, but it is down there with the lowest. People didn't vote "in droves" and that is not Democracy.
When someone can rule a country with about a quarter of the popular vote, that is called a farce.
(And before you say "But anony, other countries also have low voter turnouts", the USA is among the OECD countries with the lowest voter turnouts. see for example: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...)
Comrade your english is shit there is no way I'm going to believe you're an american. Why don't you tell us some more about your neighbor finland?
If you think that 13 trolls are more dangerous than Koch and Bloomberg, you really aren't thinking this shit through.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.