Except the new Core 2 Quads and the 4 core AMDs of tomorrow will have a hard time with this part:
"You may install one copy of the software on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not use the software on any other device."
Despite the above posts that seem to be completely clueless about the modding communities, yes, this and the Oblivion kerfluffle have indeed killed an awful lot of interest in modding. 6 weeks after Morrowind's release, we had skins that replicated the toplessness you found in Arena and Daggerfall. Was it a big deal? Nope. Just about everyone who had the game then remembered playing the first two.
Now? If you patch Oblivion, you can't modify models or skins without SERIOUS work because of, well, mostly because of Jack Thompson and his problems with sexuality, nudity, and a spot of violence.
It isn't so much a fear of asshats like him on the boards and in chat, or the difficulty of hacking the new patches, but a fear of killing the game that we like. Is it too racy? Is it too violent? Do we mention Jack Thompson without his permission?
Not all of us are up for a legal battle, or the notoriety of destroying a very awesome game and community. And although I loved playing game developer in Morrowind, I'll just have to stick to modding X3 or something that has ZERO possibility of offending someone...
Well, so would drawing and quartering him. I'm sure some 14-year-old downloader somewhere would be deterred, but would that fit into our constitution?
It's simple. The man is being deprived of liberty for 5 months. Did he deprive ANYONE of liberty for his crime? No. He deprived them of property. The fact that we are talking about the harshness of this crime tells you it's cruel and unusual. I haven't kept strict tabs on our government recently, but I don't think they've repealed that amendment yet. At least not without repealing the second amendment first.
Actually, as a former local Republican campaign strategist, you really can't be sued for libel. Sure, if you say something patently untrue, you can get sued, but we were never that dumb. You can't get sued for saying "Yea, SURE candidate X will (clean up the environment, help the poor, etc), just look at his lousy record," and show some strong counter visuals. Sure his record might NOT suck, but one in hundreds of thousands of viewers will actually look it up.
Here's a good idea of how it works http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n4_ v22/ai_8993183
Through such visual tricks, campaigns duck the libel laws they would face in print advertising...
The problem with that argument is that they have only removed certain sites as news. It also doesn't just apply to the right like your link claims either. DailyKos was removed from Google News LONG before LGF. Do a plain Google search. Those sites show up JUST fine.
Now, I'm all for citizen journalism, but DailyKos, Michelle Malkin's rambling blog, and Little Green Footballs do not classify as news in any objective sense. The only idea they are foisting with their "censorship" is that opinion blogs do not count as news.
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Except the new Core 2 Quads and the 4 core AMDs of tomorrow will have a hard time with this part:
"You may install one copy of the software on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not use the software on any other device."
Despite the above posts that seem to be completely clueless about the modding communities, yes, this and the Oblivion kerfluffle have indeed killed an awful lot of interest in modding. 6 weeks after Morrowind's release, we had skins that replicated the toplessness you found in Arena and Daggerfall. Was it a big deal? Nope. Just about everyone who had the game then remembered playing the first two.
Now? If you patch Oblivion, you can't modify models or skins without SERIOUS work because of, well, mostly because of Jack Thompson and his problems with sexuality, nudity, and a spot of violence.
It isn't so much a fear of asshats like him on the boards and in chat, or the difficulty of hacking the new patches, but a fear of killing the game that we like. Is it too racy? Is it too violent? Do we mention Jack Thompson without his permission?
Not all of us are up for a legal battle, or the notoriety of destroying a very awesome game and community. And although I loved playing game developer in Morrowind, I'll just have to stick to modding X3 or something that has ZERO possibility of offending someone...
Well, so would drawing and quartering him. I'm sure some 14-year-old downloader somewhere would be deterred, but would that fit into our constitution? It's simple. The man is being deprived of liberty for 5 months. Did he deprive ANYONE of liberty for his crime? No. He deprived them of property. The fact that we are talking about the harshness of this crime tells you it's cruel and unusual. I haven't kept strict tabs on our government recently, but I don't think they've repealed that amendment yet. At least not without repealing the second amendment first.
The problem with that argument is that they have only removed certain sites as news. It also doesn't just apply to the right like your link claims either. DailyKos was removed from Google News LONG before LGF. Do a plain Google search. Those sites show up JUST fine.
Now, I'm all for citizen journalism, but DailyKos, Michelle Malkin's rambling blog, and Little Green Footballs do not classify as news in any objective sense. The only idea they are foisting with their "censorship" is that opinion blogs do not count as news.
Wait, wait, I know the answer to this one! Is it zero?