If marketers are going to collect stats on me, at least send me something I could use. There's only so many 100 hours of AOL FREE cds a person can take without going raving mad.
I also work in the game industry. I understand what a pain it is to develop for x amount of cards... however, that still does not justify collecting data without my permission. Where do you draw the line? ips, macs... maybe I should just install a copy of vnc or back orifice so they can collect even a bit more data for "our benefit".
Not to sound like a privacy fanatic... regardless of the intentions, if someone is collecting data about my machine without my consent.. it should not be tolerated. Remember all the well known Quake mod conversions that were shutdown by id.. basically on the grounds that if they don't stop them now, no matter how small a project, regardless if it has no intention to go retail... they could lose their footing in court later on if someone does severely abuse it. This is the same matter.. if something isn't done now, what's to stop them from collecting "a little more information" down the road. cheers
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If marketers are going to collect stats on me, at least send me something I could use. There's only so many 100 hours of AOL FREE cds a person can take without going raving mad.
We'll reach a point where the term "he passed away" will be replaced with "blue screen of death".
I also work in the game industry. I understand what a pain it is to develop for x amount of cards... however, that still does not justify collecting data without my permission. Where do you draw the line? ips, macs... maybe I should just install a copy of vnc or back orifice so they can collect even a bit more data for "our benefit".
Not to sound like a privacy fanatic... regardless of the intentions, if someone is collecting data about my machine without my consent.. it should not be tolerated. Remember all the well known Quake mod conversions that were shutdown by id.. basically on the grounds that if they don't stop them now, no matter how small a project, regardless if it has no intention to go retail... they could lose their footing in court later on if someone does severely abuse it. This is the same matter.. if something isn't done now, what's to stop them from collecting "a little more information" down the road. cheers