m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of gaming & our rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
vote with your money people, don't pay for the destruction of your rights
the next anti consumer move will be, charging for hmmm, netflix, lets say, rentals that charge per person sitting in the room & calculated by always on connect..!
also does the nsa have back-doors into the xbox, the same as windows 0day exploits handed to them by m$?
m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of gaming & our rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
vote with your money people, don't pay for the destruction of your rights
the next anti consumer move will be, charging for hmmm, netflix, lets say, rentals that charge per person sitting in the room & calculated by always on connect..!
also does the nsa have back-doors into the xbox, the same as windows 0day exploits handed to them by m$?
Will the US now bomb Israel toà force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of
Depends. Is there a UNSC resolution authorizing the use of military force against Israel? There was one for Libya.
The problem with this is the USA, whom acts as the peace broker, keeps blocking any attempts for action by virtually the rest of the world, while supplying arms to Israel, paid for by the USA tax payer, recently a package of $30 was awarded.
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
One of those doesn't exist.
sry for the typo, well imagine if a civil war started in the USA, aimed at removing the war criminals bush & obama, whom both have torturer/d and murder/ed innocent ppl happened, would the government step down or send out the police and national guard as soon as the protesters became heavily armed?
Well we (USA, UK) fund the genocide of Palestinians and veto any action to stop illegal war crimes, we fund brutal dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, if thats what you mean!
Will the US now bomb Israel to force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
Will the US now bomb Israel toï force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
Will the US now bomb Israel toï force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
The imperial march further into the police state continues, soon you'll lose your right to trial by jury, be logged on some huge data base, sections of the population will be segregated, forced to move from the desirable areas into slums then the trains to the gas/torture chambers will start.......
i hear plenty of talk about how evil wikileaks are, for releasing the info, but not much talk in the corporate media or from our governments about the war crimes committed & subsequently covered up by the USA & UK.
so them inflated numbers of insurgents include how many woman, children and innocent men murdered exactly?
sony and co (all the large game corps) have all got together and are simply trying to destroy the second hand market which is why they are trying to force us to only accept digital distribution laden with DRM like steam where all your purchases are not allowed to be resold.
they simply want to force everyone to have to purchase new which is why they have continually tried to get us to stop using the PC and move onto the kiddie toy consoles.
but now they are not happy with the consoles and are trying to block second hand games being traded on them.
more sony media with "frickin" DRM, i think i'll pass.. until sony stop being anti consumer and treating us all as criminals they deserve no pro news stories.
i think most countries are guilty of out and out propaganda.
the USA and UK are far more slick than other countries but apply the same Orwellian police state brain washing tactics.
Lets hope so, as PC games have been dumbed down to suit arcade button bash style for consoles, with a stream of terrible lazy titles over the last few years, & now you only purchase half a game & are sold the rest via micro payments.
Added to this, is that once FREE user created content, is in the process of being blocked & turned into a micro payment hell.
Also, you are now sold just a licence like the PSP Go titles & all downloaded content, so you can no longer sell, lend, take around to a friends house to play easily, give your software away for free or even sell the software when you sell your console as Sony's EULA for both the PS3 & PSP Go states you have to wipe your hard drive before you sell it or you could face criminal prosecution.
Game consoles & greedy corporations like sony, microsoft, EA, etc are destroying the gaming industry through greed.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate Orwellian hardware DRM designed to take away rights not to stop piracy anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the corporate globalists from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
============
If Sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
the bbc is government line propaganda which we are forced to pay for if we want a television
EXAMPLES of BBC Stooges.
Palestine, the bbc continually refers to the FREE, DEMOCRATIC, elected government Hamas as, "since they seized power" suggesting that it was coup d'état. The BBC also fails to give balanced time to the plight of the Palistinions or mention that the "occupied states" by Israel is illegal & internationally condemned except for Israel's ally & supplier of FREE weapons the USA
South Ossetia conflict, the BBC constantly ran the news stories with David Miliband & other scum blaming Russia for the aggression even though videos & information was widely available showing this to be utter bull crud, yet again "The official line".
Murder of Ian Tomlinson at the G20, the BBC have not once stated that Ian was struck with a batton even though this was plain to anyone that watch the video.
The Iraq war, the BBC constantly ran propaganda and reiterated the WMD's could be launched in 45mins regardless of the weapon inspectors stating this was utter rubbish.
i could go on but please check out the few recent references i have highlighted.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media, & avoid all sony products as much as possible, why allow these scum suits to dictate hardware/software DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the corporate globalists gatekeepers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
========
If Sony payola (google it) wasn't already bad enough to destroy all indie competition already you have this scam.
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
That's the problem, ppl just don't give a dam any-more, we have all been demoralised into mindless consumers while corporations & government do what they like.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the fucking capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, PRS, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
If sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the fucking capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
If sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
An analysis of Section 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is a piece of UK law that, among a range of other things, contains a section that is meant to require the surrender of cryptographic keys to certain authorised parties (which are in effect instruments of the government). If such a request is made as part of an investigation, then the party who disclosed the key is not allowed to tell anyone that the authorities have that key or they face up to two years in prison. Equally, if the party fails to disclose the key, they also face up to two years in prison.
FTA: Even on the same PC, extra copies needed for each family member who wants a new profile.
As if there was any need to further incite angry gamers with Spore's DRM issues, The Consumerist yesterday ran a story on how -- in addition to the many other restrictions the game's DRM presents gamers with -- a copy of Spore provides you with only a single game account. In other words, if you've got multiple people in the same house who want to play Spore and have their own individual online personas, you'll have to buy an additional copy of Spore for each person.
Forget what you may have read on the manual -- particularly that part on page 53 which reads, "You may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the game." An EA spokesperson going by the name "EA_Violet" has clarified questions regarding the matter on the official Spore forums, providing us this disappointing revelation:
"That section in the manual was a misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual. There is one Spore registration/account per game/serial code so you are correct in that you cannot make multiple accounts at this time. I have sent your guys' feedback to the game team though since I can understand the desire to share a game on a system that you entire family uses."
For a "misprint" the language seems pretty clear, and it is common practice for games to allow different user profiles so you can login and play with your own data/saves(naturally, with only one instance of the game running at any given time). One can't help but wonder whether this feature was removed so late in the process that the manual had already gone to print. Regardless, if this policy sticks after the game team reviews the feedback noted in the post it will only fan the fires of gamers frustrated with EA's handling of Spore. While we stand staunchly against piracy, requiring each member of a household to buy their own individual copy of the game seems like one of those policies that could backfire, driving people who otherwise wouldn't dream of it to potentially consider it as an alternative. But maybe this is simply an example of not having thought things through.
Should it hold true, this revelation also calls the game's strict installation restrictions into question. If each game serial code only authorizes a single account registration that should render how many times you install the game fairly moot.
We've contacted EA for a comment on the story but have yet to receive a response.
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it infects your system with a rootkit.
That alone is a reason you shouldn't buy it. Just Say No to DRM.
What else do you expect from Sony made DRM?
what this is basically doing, is reducing the value of the product to zero as now you cannot sell it on. Thus destroying the second hand game market
Shame on EA for using this anti-consumer DRM that gives you 3 installs then you have the joy of purchasing it again, sounds like MPAA/RIAA tactics to me.
Shame on you EA and shame on you Will Wright for not speaking out.
well is this Sony's second attempt to kill off the second hard game market after their patent they tried to keep very quiet!
FTA: At the start of the year Sony filed a patent that could threaten the second hand games market and independent retailers alike.
The patent would allow Sony to lock a game to the first console that it was played on, meaning that if you sold the game or lent it to a friend they would be unable to play it on their console.
Sony stated at the time that the aim is to protect itself from counterfeit software, but were aware that the same technology would also prevent the re-sale of used games.
At the time many people shrugged it off not really thinking Sony would go through with the idea as it would kill the second hand games market, the games rental market and seriously hurt independent retailers. All of which could damage PS3 console and games sales.
However retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar that "high street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought"
What do you expect from the masters of rootkits other than anti-consumer propertarian bull shit.
RIAA:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
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m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of gaming & our rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
vote with your money people, don't pay for the destruction of your rights
the next anti consumer move will be, charging for hmmm, netflix, lets say, rentals that charge per person sitting in the room & calculated by always on connect..!
also does the nsa have back-doors into the xbox, the same as windows 0day exploits handed to them by m$?
m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of gaming & our rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
vote with your money people, don't pay for the destruction of your rights
the next anti consumer move will be, charging for hmmm, netflix, lets say, rentals that charge per person sitting in the room & calculated by always on connect..!
also does the nsa have back-doors into the xbox, the same as windows 0day exploits handed to them by m$?
Will the US now bomb Israel toà force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of
Depends. Is there a UNSC resolution authorizing the use of military force against Israel? There was one for Libya.
The problem with this is the USA, whom acts as the peace broker, keeps blocking any attempts for action by virtually the rest of the world, while supplying arms to Israel, paid for by the USA tax payer, recently a package of $30 was awarded.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9418922.stm
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
One of those doesn't exist.
sry for the typo, well imagine if a civil war started in the USA, aimed at removing the war criminals bush & obama, whom both have torturer/d and murder/ed innocent ppl happened, would the government step down or send out the police and national guard as soon as the protesters became heavily armed?
Well we (USA, UK) fund the genocide of Palestinians and veto any action to stop illegal war crimes, we fund brutal dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, if thats what you mean!
oil, oil, oil, gas...
Will the US now bomb Israel to force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
oil, oil, oil, gas...
Will the US now bomb Israel toï force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
Will the US now bomb Israel toï force them to comply with the hundreds of UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of?,
OFC not as the USA funds & veto's (blocks) all intervention at stopping Israel's illegal occupation, illegal constructions, genocide, torture, assassinations...
what's the difference between Yemen, Bahrain & lybia?
two of them have pro USA puppets & are allowed to murder civilians...
The imperial march further into the police state continues, soon you'll lose your right to trial by jury, be logged on some huge data base, sections of the population will be segregated, forced to move from the desirable areas into slums then the trains to the gas/torture chambers will start.......
hear hear... these corporations are a blight on society.
i hear plenty of talk about how evil wikileaks are, for releasing the info, but not much talk in the corporate media or from our governments about the war crimes committed & subsequently covered up by the USA & UK.
so them inflated numbers of insurgents include how many woman, children and innocent men murdered exactly?
sony and co (all the large game corps) have all got together and are simply trying to destroy the second hand market which is why they are trying to force us to only accept digital distribution laden with DRM like steam where all your purchases are not allowed to be resold.
they simply want to force everyone to have to purchase new which is why they have continually tried to get us to stop using the PC and move onto the kiddie toy consoles.
but now they are not happy with the consoles and are trying to block second hand games being traded on them.
i hate scum bag anti consumer corporations.
more sony media with "frickin" DRM, i think i'll pass.. until sony stop being anti consumer and treating us all as criminals they deserve no pro news stories.
i think most countries are guilty of out and out propaganda. the USA and UK are far more slick than other countries but apply the same Orwellian police state brain washing tactics.
pc titles are far cheaper as no licence fee is demanded by sony, microsoft or nintendo!
Lets hope so, as PC games have been dumbed down to suit arcade button bash style for consoles, with a stream of terrible lazy titles over the last few years, & now you only purchase half a game & are sold the rest via micro payments.
Added to this, is that once FREE user created content, is in the process of being blocked & turned into a micro payment hell.
Also, you are now sold just a licence like the PSP Go titles & all downloaded content, so you can no longer sell, lend, take around to a friends house to play easily, give your software away for free or even sell the software when you sell your console as Sony's EULA for both the PS3 & PSP Go states you have to wipe your hard drive before you sell it or you could face criminal prosecution.
Game consoles & greedy corporations like sony, microsoft, EA, etc are destroying the gaming industry through greed.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate Orwellian hardware DRM designed to take away rights not to stop piracy anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the corporate globalists from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
============
If Sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/14132
the bbc is government line propaganda which we are forced to pay for if we want a television
EXAMPLES of BBC Stooges.
Palestine, the bbc continually refers to the FREE, DEMOCRATIC, elected government Hamas as, "since they seized power" suggesting that it was coup d'état. The BBC also fails to give balanced time to the plight of the Palistinions or mention that the "occupied states" by Israel is illegal & internationally condemned except for Israel's ally & supplier of FREE weapons the USA
South Ossetia conflict, the BBC constantly ran the news stories with David Miliband & other scum blaming Russia for the aggression even though videos & information was widely available showing this to be utter bull crud, yet again "The official line".
Murder of Ian Tomlinson at the G20, the BBC have not once stated that Ian was struck with a batton even though this was plain to anyone that watch the video.
The Iraq war, the BBC constantly ran propaganda and reiterated the WMD's could be launched in 45mins regardless of the weapon inspectors stating this was utter rubbish.
i could go on but please check out the few recent references i have highlighted.
Globalisation and the Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HRt1bH_dw
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+biased&search_type=&aq=0&oq=bbc+bias
news is supposed to be subjective, the lie of the "liberal media" needs to be dispelled.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media, & avoid all sony products as much as possible, why allow these scum suits to dictate hardware/software DRM anymore.
... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the corporate globalists gatekeepers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
========
If Sony payola (google it) wasn't already bad enough to destroy all indie competition already you have this scam.
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326/870
That's the problem, ppl just don't give a dam any-more, we have all been demoralised into mindless consumers while corporations & government do what they like.
because the companies hide behind their trade body names & are very active at promoting themselves to be just and right.
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the fucking capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, PRS, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
If sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326/870
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the fucking capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
If sony payola (google it) wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326/870
so no public accountability yet again by our government.
http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Articles/article01.html
An analysis of Section 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is a piece of UK law that, among a range of other things, contains a section that is meant to require the surrender of cryptographic keys to certain authorised parties (which are in effect instruments of the government). If such a request is made as part of an investigation, then the party who disclosed the key is not allowed to tell anyone that the authorities have that key or they face up to two years in prison. Equally, if the party fails to disclose the key, they also face up to two years in prison.
they are trying to destroy the second hand game market.
have you read this?
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169899
FTA: Even on the same PC, extra copies needed for each family member who wants a new profile.
As if there was any need to further incite angry gamers with Spore's DRM issues, The Consumerist yesterday ran a story on how -- in addition to the many other restrictions the game's DRM presents gamers with -- a copy of Spore provides you with only a single game account. In other words, if you've got multiple people in the same house who want to play Spore and have their own individual online personas, you'll have to buy an additional copy of Spore for each person.
Forget what you may have read on the manual -- particularly that part on page 53 which reads, "You may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the game." An EA spokesperson going by the name "EA_Violet" has clarified questions regarding the matter on the official Spore forums, providing us this disappointing revelation:
"That section in the manual was a misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual. There is one Spore registration/account per game/serial code so you are correct in that you cannot make multiple accounts at this time. I have sent your guys' feedback to the game team though since I can understand the desire to share a game on a system that you entire family uses."
For a "misprint" the language seems pretty clear, and it is common practice for games to allow different user profiles so you can login and play with your own data/saves(naturally, with only one instance of the game running at any given time). One can't help but wonder whether this feature was removed so late in the process that the manual had already gone to print. Regardless, if this policy sticks after the game team reviews the feedback noted in the post it will only fan the fires of gamers frustrated with EA's handling of Spore. While we stand staunchly against piracy, requiring each member of a household to buy their own individual copy of the game seems like one of those policies that could backfire, driving people who otherwise wouldn't dream of it to potentially consider it as an alternative. But maybe this is simply an example of not having thought things through.
Should it hold true, this revelation also calls the game's strict installation restrictions into question. If each game serial code only authorizes a single account registration that should render how many times you install the game fairly moot.
We've contacted EA for a comment on the story but have yet to receive a response.
it infects your system with a rootkit. That alone is a reason you shouldn't buy it. Just Say No to DRM.
What else do you expect from Sony made DRM?
what this is basically doing, is reducing the value of the product to zero as now you cannot sell it on. Thus destroying the second hand game market
Shame on EA for using this anti-consumer DRM that gives you 3 installs then you have the joy of purchasing it again, sounds like MPAA/RIAA tactics to me.
Shame on you EA and shame on you Will Wright for not speaking out.
well is this Sony's second attempt to kill off the second hard game market after their patent they tried to keep very quiet!
http://itvibe.com/news/4063/
Sony to make it illegal to sell second hand PS3 games
FTA: At the start of the year Sony filed a patent that could threaten the second hand games market and independent retailers alike.
The patent would allow Sony to lock a game to the first console that it was played on, meaning that if you sold the game or lent it to a friend they would be unable to play it on their console.
Sony stated at the time that the aim is to protect itself from counterfeit software, but were aware that the same technology would also prevent the re-sale of used games.
At the time many people shrugged it off not really thinking Sony would go through with the idea as it would kill the second hand games market, the games rental market and seriously hurt independent retailers. All of which could damage PS3 console and games sales.
However retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar that "high street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought"
What do you expect from the masters of rootkits other than anti-consumer propertarian bull shit.
RIAA:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom--(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)