Except that the people who will mostly be discovering these bugs and exploits are not students. They are going to be professionals that can get upwards of $10,000+ depending on the severity of the exploit they find.
Bullshit. You can buy a $500 dollar computer that can play pretty much any game at medium settings if not slightly better. Now if by "gaming capable" you meant play Cyrsis at 1920x1200 at highest settings then yes you'd have a point.
If a local official wanted to leak something anonymously to the paper they wouldn't do it through the website's comment section. They would talk to a reporter directly.
An Executive agreement still requires majority support from both Houses to be implemented. But since the DMCA was passed with unanimous support in the Senate and with little to no opposition in the House there is no chance in hell that ACTA is going to face any real opposition from Congress.
No, they shouldn't. I'm not for DRM, but I'm very much against these cheapskates who make up constant bogus excuses for why they download games especially when some of the games they are downloading have never had DRM and have sales where they are practically given away for free. These are the people who claim to be making some sort of moral/ethical point but then go off and download the game and make the lives of those of us who don't believe in taking things we haven't paid for more miserable.
I would have been included in the group of "people who will not buy that game", but if I found a pirated copy laying around, I may well have played those games.
Or how about just skipping the games entirely? This would send a real message to the game companies. Continuing to download games for free does nothing but further encourage them to come up with worse and worse DRM schemes.
Why is it that none of these solutions involve making a product that people are happy/willing to pay for to begin with?
Because people show that they are still unwilling to buy something even if it's DRM-free and you can purchase it at any price you want (even as little as a penny)? Just look at how widely shared World of Goo is on torrent sites and it has never had DRM and it has had a number of "pay what you want" sales.
offering non-DRM games for a single cent don't even necessarily work.
Which proves in many ways that the people who claim they don't buy games cause of DRM or that they're too expensive or just BS excuses. World of Goo never used DRM and yet you could see it being shared all over the place on torrent sites. It boils down to people just not wanting to pay people for their work.
Except then he then details a system that could only be described as DRM.
Except that DRM doesn't mean what you apparently think it does. DRM is about preventing someone from making unauthorized copies or restricting using content on devices the copyright holder doesn't want you to. Having to pay something in order to get access to it is not a DRM scheme.
The idea is the same; somehow make it so that you can't play the full version without paying for it...
Except it's not. DRM is about preventing you from copying or using content in ways or on devices that the copyright owner doesn't want you to. It has no relation to having to pay for something as you can stick DRM on content you give away for free and never charge for.
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Unfortunately even Taco has succumbed to this kind of shit.
Except that the people who will mostly be discovering these bugs and exploits are not students. They are going to be professionals that can get upwards of $10,000+ depending on the severity of the exploit they find.
Gaming capable computers aren't that cheap.
Bullshit. You can buy a $500 dollar computer that can play pretty much any game at medium settings if not slightly better. Now if by "gaming capable" you meant play Cyrsis at 1920x1200 at highest settings then yes you'd have a point.
Because purchasing an Xbox Live gold account is necessary in order to play 360 games? Oh wait... Exactly what was your statement supposed to show?
How long until a conservatard tries to bring Obama up in regards to this...
Oh wait.
If a local official wanted to leak something anonymously to the paper they wouldn't do it through the website's comment section. They would talk to a reporter directly.
An Executive agreement still requires majority support from both Houses to be implemented. But since the DMCA was passed with unanimous support in the Senate and with little to no opposition in the House there is no chance in hell that ACTA is going to face any real opposition from Congress.
Because your non-nerdy friends care about flashing a new ROM onto their phone?
Because they are going to be supplying information on the website of a small town paper that 99.9% of the world has never heard of until today?
Except that you never had free speech rights on someone else's website?
No, they shouldn't. I'm not for DRM, but I'm very much against these cheapskates who make up constant bogus excuses for why they download games especially when some of the games they are downloading have never had DRM and have sales where they are practically given away for free. These are the people who claim to be making some sort of moral/ethical point but then go off and download the game and make the lives of those of us who don't believe in taking things we haven't paid for more miserable.
I would have been included in the group of "people who will not buy that game", but if I found a pirated copy laying around, I may well have played those games.
Or how about just skipping the games entirely? This would send a real message to the game companies. Continuing to download games for free does nothing but further encourage them to come up with worse and worse DRM schemes.
Why is it that none of these solutions involve making a product that people are happy/willing to pay for to begin with?
Because people show that they are still unwilling to buy something even if it's DRM-free and you can purchase it at any price you want (even as little as a penny)? Just look at how widely shared World of Goo is on torrent sites and it has never had DRM and it has had a number of "pay what you want" sales.
offering non-DRM games for a single cent don't even necessarily work.
Which proves in many ways that the people who claim they don't buy games cause of DRM or that they're too expensive or just BS excuses. World of Goo never used DRM and yet you could see it being shared all over the place on torrent sites. It boils down to people just not wanting to pay people for their work.
Except then he then details a system that could only be described as DRM.
Except that DRM doesn't mean what you apparently think it does. DRM is about preventing someone from making unauthorized copies or restricting using content on devices the copyright holder doesn't want you to. Having to pay something in order to get access to it is not a DRM scheme.
The idea is the same; somehow make it so that you can't play the full version without paying for it...
Except it's not. DRM is about preventing you from copying or using content in ways or on devices that the copyright owner doesn't want you to. It has no relation to having to pay for something as you can stick DRM on content you give away for free and never charge for.
Support a community well and it will pay you back.
The former shareholders of Sun would probably disagree with you.
How are they going to win? This is a pretty clear cut case of the statute of limitations barring such a lawsuit.
But the FBI isn't going to care over such a low value crime.
Most states also allow prosecution of Internet crimes in either the place of the victim OR suspect.
Except that stealing a laptop is not an "internet crime". It's just normal theft.
He said the person was in another state. County and state police don't have jurisdiction in other states.
And you assume they've expired or that Oracle doesn't provide the same indemnification based on what evidence? Oh wait, you have none.
Since when was "American" a race?
And the cost will be what? $5 billion a piece?
Schwartz may not exist but Sun does and the contracts its customer's made before Oracle bought them don't magically disappear.