Seriously, more parents need balls enough to take measures like that.
Kids must learn first and foremost that their parents are in charge no matter how much they whine. Period!
The only way I see this being a problem is if my kid were to, using his own hard earned money (and NOT through an allowance), purchase a Wii, and I were to seize it, I could be guilty of larceny.
Think that would work against a giant corporation like EA?
You'll probably get sued...and crashing servers deliberately may even get you thrown in jail for awhile.
And not only are you screwing with already subdued gamers desperately trying to milk every bit of use they can out of a game they were swindled into buying, but you'd give EA an excuse to weasel out of stuff.
1. It succeeds. Your boss, being devious enough to foist this on you in the first place, is going to grab all the glory anyway and your efforts will be of no benefit to yourself. You'll be so sick of yourself your performance will decline, and/or your boss, knowing how easy you are to manipulate, will make your job such a living hell that you come to case 3 anyway.
2. It blows up in his face, his company gets hosed/sued/banned, you don't get the results...yada yada yada. Shit indeed rolls downhill, and as your boss has more benefit of doubt than you, anything goes wrong and you'll eat it. Again, because he was sleazy enough to foist this on you. Result?
3. You stand up for yourself, and your boss promptly fires you for insubordination, or starts cooking up bad reviews of your performance, or otherwise exacts revenge in a way that is toxic and probably fatal to your career.
4. You get in touch with someone honest enough to bring this nonsensical scheme to a crashing halt, and nobody is the wiser. At best, you get accolades for saving the company, and at worst, your boss gets vindictive at you for blowing the whistle and you get shown the door.
So either you'll get screwed on credit if it works, turn into a scapegoat if it blows up, get booted for having morals, or possibly get rewarded for saving the company.
Refusing to compromise your integrity will not cause any harm that wasn't already going to happen.
Worst case is the same no matter what you do, and best case absolutely depends on you doing the right thing.
The number one injury to alleged infringers is attorney's fees.
Make it criminal and you give the hapless RIAA victims the benefit of public defenders, the advantage of having a burden of proof high at beyond a reasonable doubt, tougher standards on evidence, searches and seizures, and last but not least the requirement of a unanimous jury vote to convict.
Indeed. How civil are you being letting line cutters embolden themselves cutting in front of you only to wind up cutting in front of others?
Nip them in the bud and you do the next guy the favor of not dealing with line cutting cretins.
Tolerating wrongness is itself uncivil if you aren't the only victim.
Similiarly, OP, consider that you are being watched. Your coworkers may have heard of this ethical dilemma you are having. Inspire them, or corrupt them. Just remember, they're probably watching you.
Stand up for your morals and you may inspire your peers to put pressure on your boss to rethink his plan of action.
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omg...
metamod funny.
You're banned fucktard!
Seriously though, I think a good portion of bans in forums and chatrooms and whatnot are due to fits of rage by staff.
I know from experience.
Way to go.
Seriously, more parents need balls enough to take measures like that.
Kids must learn first and foremost that their parents are in charge no matter how much they whine. Period!
The only way I see this being a problem is if my kid were to, using his own hard earned money (and NOT through an allowance), purchase a Wii, and I were to seize it, I could be guilty of larceny.
If you're an island, you're an island.
No amount of "route around" will fix your only connection to upstream.
Multiple cores would IMHO benefit hypervisors like vmware and Xen so that they have more cores to spread around the machines.
What's funny is that I'm not even a player of any EA games.
Your attacks are about as useful as a psychic assault on Sir Hemingford Gray
Think that would work against a giant corporation like EA?
You'll probably get sued...and crashing servers deliberately may even get you thrown in jail for awhile.
And not only are you screwing with already subdued gamers desperately trying to milk every bit of use they can out of a game they were swindled into buying, but you'd give EA an excuse to weasel out of stuff.
Furthermore, you are an asshat.
The only way such a CYA measure would even be tolerable for me is if they boot out the jackass mod that made the threat in the first place.
Anything less and you're complicit. All that stuff about agency and respondent superior and all.
The irony of your response is tangible indeed.
Didn't we already have an article on this already?
There are four situations
1. It succeeds. Your boss, being devious enough to foist this on you in the first place, is going to grab all the glory anyway and your efforts will be of no benefit to yourself. You'll be so sick of yourself your performance will decline, and/or your boss, knowing how easy you are to manipulate, will make your job such a living hell that you come to case 3 anyway.
2. It blows up in his face, his company gets hosed/sued/banned, you don't get the results...yada yada yada. Shit indeed rolls downhill, and as your boss has more benefit of doubt than you, anything goes wrong and you'll eat it. Again, because he was sleazy enough to foist this on you. Result?
3. You stand up for yourself, and your boss promptly fires you for insubordination, or starts cooking up bad reviews of your performance, or otherwise exacts revenge in a way that is toxic and probably fatal to your career.
4. You get in touch with someone honest enough to bring this nonsensical scheme to a crashing halt, and nobody is the wiser. At best, you get accolades for saving the company, and at worst, your boss gets vindictive at you for blowing the whistle and you get shown the door.
So either you'll get screwed on credit if it works, turn into a scapegoat if it blows up, get booted for having morals, or possibly get rewarded for saving the company.
Refusing to compromise your integrity will not cause any harm that wasn't already going to happen.
Worst case is the same no matter what you do, and best case absolutely depends on you doing the right thing.
It seems a little "flat" to me too.
As long as all they do is bill you and hand you over to a collection agency it can be civil.
The minute they try to jail you for unpaid tolls, then it becomes criminal.
That would be a good thing.
The number one injury to alleged infringers is attorney's fees.
Make it criminal and you give the hapless RIAA victims the benefit of public defenders, the advantage of having a burden of proof high at beyond a reasonable doubt, tougher standards on evidence, searches and seizures, and last but not least the requirement of a unanimous jury vote to convict.
Bug off. You post crap like that in public you deserve whatever shame you get.
Or you get fired by your boss and almost literally kicked out the door by security.
I agree though, since his hesitance has almost certainly already doomed him.
Indeed. How civil are you being letting line cutters embolden themselves cutting in front of you only to wind up cutting in front of others?
Nip them in the bud and you do the next guy the favor of not dealing with line cutting cretins.
Tolerating wrongness is itself uncivil if you aren't the only victim.
Similiarly, OP, consider that you are being watched. Your coworkers may have heard of this ethical dilemma you are having. Inspire them, or corrupt them. Just remember, they're probably watching you.
Stand up for your morals and you may inspire your peers to put pressure on your boss to rethink his plan of action.
5) Profit!
Funny thing though...
If copyright haters know that, they could effectively DDoS the copyright holder into croaking.
DRM hampers rights you already have. I.e., denial of access and inconvenience with something you already own.
This is different.
Hello Zippy :)
congratulations, you have successfully trolled me
*rimshot*
Since the US already sues $124,700 I think a similiar move versus patents would actually be feasible.
It's not censorship if someone other than the government does it.
No no no.
GIMP is described by a six letter word that should apply to trolls like you.
The word is...ready for it?
BANNED
That's right. He doesn't use gimp because his bosses BANNED it. The only way he's going to use gimp is by risking termination for insubordination.
That's why he would need photoshop.