Ha!
My parents had that on a Technics multi-deck hi-fi system
as a kid, I'd press the volume controls on the remote while holding the dial in place
cause it made a cool clicking sound (plastic gears jumping over each other)
Open Source Software - Pointing out gaping-security-holes-that-you-can't-do-much-about -until-the-software-is-updated-in-a-week's-time-by -some-volunteer-on-the-friendly-
community-forum-of-said-software
you mean that OSS?
Expert witnesses are often called in by the courts to give their opinion on technical matters, and the judge will usually follow the opinion in his ruling
maybe overkill in this case
but there is certainly provisions in place for complex technical issues
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AFAIK, IANAL, Etc.
copyright infringement is a civil offence (in the UK, at least)
It is not a criminal offence - it does not carry any custodial sentence
you can only be sued for infringement in a civil court
emulators emulate hardware
/* directX code */
/* minor rejigging to make it work with equivalent OpenGL API call */
examples are vmware, virtualbox, et al
Wine is a compatibility layer
meaning it just redirects win32 API calls to the equivalent linux API calls
AFIAK (never really looked into the source of wine, or I'm guessing a bit here), but
void direct3D_DoSomething(args)
{
}
becomes
void direct3D_DoSomething(args)
{
openGL_DoSomething(args);
}
games have levels for the same reason books have chapters
any substantial storyline has natural breaks and scenery changes contained within it
what's the problem?
and maybe it's due to the novelty of it.
would artists make the same sort of profits (eclipsing POS sales) if this model was more common place?
dunno
but it's a bit shortsighted to take one positive example and treat it as a working model
oops,
I'm a retard and deserve modding down....
Link to MS KB page for XP SP3
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832671
"brand the software w/ the name and credit card number used to purchase the software"
Using the credit card info would be very foolish, for obvious reasons...
but simply branding the firms name would probably be enough to discourage casual copying
No firm wants the embarrassment of being linked with piracy
If the purchasing company's name can be derived from the key, then any copied keys would brand the copy as belonging to the same firm
They invented firmware
Ha! My parents had that on a Technics multi-deck hi-fi system as a kid, I'd press the volume controls on the remote while holding the dial in place cause it made a cool clicking sound (plastic gears jumping over each other)
Open Source Software - Pointing out gaping-security-holes-that-you-can't-do-much-about -until-the-software-is-updated-in-a-week's-time-by -some-volunteer-on-the-friendly-
community-forum-of-said-software
you mean that OSS?
Expert witnesses are often called in by the courts to give their opinion on technical matters, and the judge will usually follow the opinion in his ruling maybe overkill in this case but there is certainly provisions in place for complex technical issues
mod parent up TFA states that the key has been revoked so why is it necessary to hunt people down for distributing a (now) redundant key?