IANAL, but it seems like their's only two coices 1) The GPL is valid and they need to comply 2) The GPL is invalid and they arein violation of copyright. Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot arguing that it's invalid?
The solution is to do what they have been doing in the past: banning players for violating their Terms of Use.
4. Limitations on Your Use of the Service.
A. Only Blizzard or its licensees have the right to host the Game. You may not host or provide matchmaking services for the Game, or intercept, emulate or redirect the proprietary communication protocols used by Blizzard in connection with the Program, regardless of the method used to do so. Such prohibited methods may include, but are not limited to, protocol emulation, reverse engineering, modifying the Program, adding unauthorized components to the Program, or using a packet sniffer while the Program is running.
B. You agree that you will not (i) modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Program or the Service; (ii) create or use cheats, bots, "mods", and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience; or (iii) use any third-party software that intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through the Program or the Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may update the Program with authorized patches and updates distributed by Blizzard, and Blizzard may, at its sole and absolute discretion, allow the use of certain third party user interfaces.
People using this program are violating the ToU that they agreed to when they signed up for blizzard's online service. As such:
7. Blizzard's Absolute Right to Suspend, Terminate and/or Delete the Account.
BLIZZARD MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE THE ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME WITH ANY REASON OR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most account suspensions, terminations and/or deletions are the result of violations of this Terms of Use or the EULA. Obviously this is a pain for them as they have to develop methods of determining that the user is in violation, so they're trying to go after the company that developed the software. I think their case is shaky at best and I don't agree with them, but I understand why they're trying to do it.
Actually, yes that looks pretty close. I think 50 cents/song is closer to market value (they don't have media/transport costs normally associated with CD distribution). Unfortunately it's not available to everyone.
From their Terms of Use for mp3 downloads:
5. Territorial Restrictions
As required by our Digital Content providers, Digital Content will, unless otherwise designated, be available only to customers located in the United States.
No, I completely agree with you. What the major labels need to do it offer a good quality, reasonably priced, non-DRM'd, easy to search downloads. -Anything- less will not curb downloading. They don't seem willing to even try and compete in the digital distribution arena without clinging to something above that's kneecapping them. Especially the DRM.
I'd think it's easier to differentiate between known responses than pick out an arbitrary word though. What I mean is, in those IVR situations the software is usually just trying to differential between yes/no, accounts/support etc. The most advanced I've seen it is one where you could speak your credit card number, which is still just differentiating between a larger set (0-9). That was -going- to be my response as I assumed the audio CAPTCHA just played a recording of the word displayed in the normal CAPTCHA, but I just went and tried out google's and it does exactly what my credit card example describes except even shorter (6 digit number with background noise). So yeah... not that surprising.
Erm... 4 hours? Starbuck's coffee is bad. Cold coffee is horrible. Cold Starbuck's coffee? I'd rather eat regurgitated baby-food peas. I also drink around 6-8 coffee's a day so they wouldn't have to worry about me sitting around not buying drinks in any event.
Lots of things in programming have the -potential- to be bad. Pointers and references, constructors and destructors can be horrible if not handled properly. So an alternative to manually handling those elements came about: automatic garbage collection to free up unused memory. The problem is, garbage collection itself can be a pig.
The same goes for threading. If not handled properly it can be a nightmare, but in a time where processors are growing cores faster than rabbits can breed it makes the most sense to take advantage of that with parallel programming. Whenever there's options that have pros and cons, the best alternative is chosen based on them.
If you have a good programmer that understands threading, an application that has a lot of concurrent connections and/or multiple, concurrent CPU intensive tasks, and a server that can take advantage multi-threading it makes the most sense to go that route.
If you have a rinky-dink, single user application and a developer that has trouble using negatives in conditional statements, by all means don't use threading.
Just don't claim that threading is unequivocally always the wrong option.
I'm not sure this holds water. There's a perception that young entrepreneurs are successful, but it's basically a myth, perpetuated because of all the attention that a few (rare) successes bring. I agree, and it's not just limited to young entrepreneurs. The media focuses on the rare successes (and failures) to the point where they seem commonplace. If you were to believe what they feed us, you'd think that all today's schools are filled with prodigy, gang member, anorexic, obese, and and suicidal students taught by sex fiend teachers. It's news because it's -not- ordinary, so thinking of the news as representative of the average world is obviously going to be wrong.
It's spam really. Spam we like, but nonetheless, spam. That was the point. I'm interested in essentially a movie "ad" that explores the science of Iron Man, which is why I clicked. What I'm -not- interested in is the ads for subscriptions and such that came with it.
Yeah, I got that from some other people's comments after I posted. The article was light on details since they're sealed, and I misunderstood what was going on.
To be fair, eBay's intentions in buying those shares wasn't noble. I would think starting Kijiji.com while being a share holder in Craiglist is anti-competitive. I can't blame Craigslist for trying to push them out (if that's what they did).
Craigslist executives took actions that 'unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10%'." So Craigslist became popular enough to affect eBay's bottom line and that warrants a lawsuit. No mention even of patent infringement or anything legally relevant. Just, "They took 10% of our business so we're suing." IANAL, but I'm thinking this falls under frivolous.
I'd like someone to give me a free pony. It has to be brown with white spots and answer to the name, "Bart." If you do, I'll consider letting you put a brand on it somewhere unnoticeable. Thanks.
People have of course screwed with filenames just to see what happens (much more in Kazaa/Limewire than Bit-torrent), probably to test Rule 34, with interesting results; Yeah, I love that bash.org entry too: http://bash.org/?572066
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IANAL, but it seems like their's only two coices 1) The GPL is valid and they need to comply 2) The GPL is invalid and they arein violation of copyright. Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot arguing that it's invalid?
Give me an bed that can incline and a computer that can play WoW with a net connection and I'm in.
- A. Only Blizzard or its licensees have the right to host the Game. You may not host or provide matchmaking services for the Game, or intercept, emulate or redirect the proprietary communication protocols used by Blizzard in connection with the Program, regardless of the method used to do so. Such prohibited methods may include, but are not limited to, protocol emulation, reverse engineering, modifying the Program, adding unauthorized components to the Program, or using a packet sniffer while the Program is running.
- B. You agree that you will not (i) modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Program or the Service; (ii) create or use cheats, bots, "mods", and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience; or (iii) use any third-party software that intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through the Program or the Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may update the Program with authorized patches and updates distributed by Blizzard, and Blizzard may, at its sole and absolute discretion, allow the use of certain third party user interfaces.
People using this program are violating the ToU that they agreed to when they signed up for blizzard's online service. As such: 7. Blizzard's Absolute Right to Suspend, Terminate and/or Delete the Account. BLIZZARD MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE THE ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME WITH ANY REASON OR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most account suspensions, terminations and/or deletions are the result of violations of this Terms of Use or the EULA. Obviously this is a pain for them as they have to develop methods of determining that the user is in violation, so they're trying to go after the company that developed the software. I think their case is shaky at best and I don't agree with them, but I understand why they're trying to do it.Last I checked we (I'm Canadian as well) are allowed to download legally as long as we don't upload: http://www.news.com/2100-1025_3-5121479.html. The wikipedia article on Candian copyright law explains it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_copyright_law#Music_Recordings. We have a levy on blank media that gives us carte blanche to copy music. Basically as far as the law is concerned, we've already paid for it.
/. article related to p2p in Canada: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/066200&from=rss
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From their Terms of Use for mp3 downloads: 5. Territorial Restrictions
As required by our Digital Content providers, Digital Content will, unless otherwise designated, be available only to customers located in the United States.
No, I completely agree with you. What the major labels need to do it offer a good quality, reasonably priced, non-DRM'd, easy to search downloads. -Anything- less will not curb downloading. They don't seem willing to even try and compete in the digital distribution arena without clinging to something above that's kneecapping them. Especially the DRM.
Erm... 4 hours? Starbuck's coffee is bad. Cold coffee is horrible. Cold Starbuck's coffee? I'd rather eat regurgitated baby-food peas. I also drink around 6-8 coffee's a day so they wouldn't have to worry about me sitting around not buying drinks in any event.
Lots of things in programming have the -potential- to be bad. Pointers and references, constructors and destructors can be horrible if not handled properly. So an alternative to manually handling those elements came about: automatic garbage collection to free up unused memory. The problem is, garbage collection itself can be a pig.
The same goes for threading. If not handled properly it can be a nightmare, but in a time where processors are growing cores faster than rabbits can breed it makes the most sense to take advantage of that with parallel programming. Whenever there's options that have pros and cons, the best alternative is chosen based on them.
If you have a good programmer that understands threading, an application that has a lot of concurrent connections and/or multiple, concurrent CPU intensive tasks, and a server that can take advantage multi-threading it makes the most sense to go that route.
If you have a rinky-dink, single user application and a developer that has trouble using negatives in conditional statements, by all means don't use threading.
Just don't claim that threading is unequivocally always the wrong option.
Erm... I guess less ads seeing as they seem to include one in the print version. -.-
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn13815&print=true
Without the ads and other extraneous stuff.
I don't know... an XML based open document format registered with ISO?
Come on now, it's obvious they meant Warcraft 3. I, for one, welcome the addition of Undead and Night Elves to the HTML 5 spec.
Yeah, I got that from some other people's comments after I posted. The article was light on details since they're sealed, and I misunderstood what was going on. To be fair, eBay's intentions in buying those shares wasn't noble. I would think starting Kijiji.com while being a share holder in Craiglist is anti-competitive. I can't blame Craigslist for trying to push them out (if that's what they did).
I keep everything encoded in ROT26. Stick it to the man!
Not nearly as hot as you would think it is.
I'd like someone to give me a free pony. It has to be brown with white spots and answer to the name, "Bart." If you do, I'll consider letting you put a brand on it somewhere unnoticeable. Thanks.
It's a lie...
But one was seen headed back to the States muttering about "John Connor."
But... sharks don't have hands.
Anyone know what the chords would be to, "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?
Somehow I have doubts as to the reliability of this...