In fact, any game that disables standard Windows shortcuts such as Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Esc is not a conforming Windows application and may not carry the "Compatible with Microsoft Windows" logo.
Every patch can change the license. How often am I expected to read it all.
I am not a lawyer, but I see how this could potentially be used in court: A user agreed to a contract under the reasonable expectation that Sony did not materially change its spirit.
at this point he can indeed click i disagree, but then he's pretty much up the creek since the store wont take the opened game back.
Then, if EULAs are enforceable, the store is in violation of the EULA for not giving you the full refund. Report the store to the software publisher's legal department.
If the store won't exchange the title for a different title, then exchange one copy for another of the same title until you've gone through the store's stock of that title. Rinse and repeat, return and deplete. It's the same as with not-CD audio discs.
For any normal contract you are told the terms before you pay.
I agree that most EULAs are on shaky ground because they break the "terms before money" rule, but aren't you shown the terms before you sign up for a monthly EverQuest account?
information about visual user interfaces (which would likely contain screen shots of proposed interfaces) is difficult to convey to vision-impaired users; it may not even be relevant to them.
Not relevant? What about a blind manager with reasonably-sighted employees, who is trying to decide what IDE on which to standardize?
Insert joke about the blind leading the blind here.
But I still wonder how to make a feature film accessible to the blind (descriptive video service doesn't cut it for fast action movies), or music accessible to the deaf.
Sony explicitly expressed a desire that the DMCA would trump Sega vs. Accolade
The DMCA's circumvention ban doesn't seem written to trump USA antitrust law.
Section 1201(b) is directly tied to copyright infringement and the presence of substantial non-infringing use. The DeCSS case seemed to primarily involve 1201(b) because the way it was packaged (i.e. as a Windows executable) didn't fit the alleged intended use (i.e. playback of DVDs on BSD and Linux). On the other hand, if a mod chip is marketed as being designed for homebrew software development, and it comes with a CD containing a compiler toolchain and source code for example games, then it has a most obvious non-infringing use in line with its marketing, which is enough to satisfy 1201(b).
Only section 1201(a) of the DMCA seems to ban fair use in any way, and I'm not sure 1201(a) is even constitutional. It seems more of a trade secret issue than a copyright issue, and trade secret law is generally the states' job. Has the constitutionality of 1201(a) with respect to game console BIOS been tested in court?
They can punish the players if the are able to detect it, but that still does not prevent them from doing it.
What if the punishment includes not being able to do it again, such as a network-wide ban (from a game-world court) or an injunction (from a real-world court)? Then the court has prevented future cheating from happening. If you can no longer access your account nor sign up for a new account, you can't cheat.
And if your PC is not in the same room as your PS2, and you can't pull CAT5 cable through your walls (either you don't own your home or bringing the rest of your wiring up to the current code is prohibitively expensive), then what do you do?
Typically modchips also allow playing of pirated discs.
Do you know of a good way to distinguish homebrew software from pirated software?
Sony may also manage to convince the court that there are legal restrictions on allowing unlicenced software to use the software inside the PS2 ROMs.
That'll be somewhat difficult in light of the Sega v. Accolade decision. It'll be difficult for the plaintiffs' counsel to argue that the DMCA trumps Sega.
But how do you get things on and off that hard drive? Let me rephrase that:
PS2 Linux can't read CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, or DVD+RW media. Its only removable storage device large enough to hold a feature-length DivX movie is the network connector (and possibly the IEEE 1394 connector).
They ARE preventing you from shitting up their servers with your modified game, which seems perfectly fine to me.
Then why not provide the ability to run a server that players can choose to shit up? This is a problem unique to massively-multiplayer real-time gaming, that there is only one game world to play in.
Like calculate line of sight on client A for client B?
That would be even worse, as it would become possible for a modified client to affect other users' experiences even more negatively than the current cheats do.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any divx players for linux that have been ported to the ps2 yet
PS2 Linux can't read CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, or DVD+RW media. Its only storage devices are the 8 MB memory card and the network connector (and possibly the IEEE 1394 connector).
Grounds? What particular copyrighted work are you circumventing access controls on by using a mod chip? The DMCA's circumvention ban applies only with respect to a copyrighted work.
No grounds? Barratry can get a lawyer disbarred.
Learn that your Web server's disk died, bringing all of your research from the past couple of years down with it
A developer who is not smart enough to keep backups deserves it.
The "Forsaken" video game...
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but on the previews for this they said it like 'car.'
The "Forsaken" video game, for PC, N64, and PSX, pronounces heat-seeking missile as "Soh-LAR-is" as in car, like on the TV commercial for the movie.
I pronounce the Sun operating systems' name as "Sun Oh Ess".
UT3K?? Wow, you must have a pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-release!
I want UT802K. In UT802K, you control Precious Moments people who have just learned that they have been bred as food for hordes of RMS-monsters for centuries.
but do they have a review of nethack or moria or any other rogue-like?
"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" has been ported to the GBA platform. That should be similar enough to the rogue clones to pacify you until somebody ports one of the more popular roguelikes.
you're assuming that there are any games worth anyone's attention on teh lunix.
Assuming you have the appropriate cartridges and cart readers, you can run almost all NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy Advance games on Linux through emulation.
Nintendo doesn't make PC games. If you want to play Kirby on your PC, then buy a GBA, an MBV2 cable, and Kirby for GBA. Then space-shift the game to your PC (mb -1 kirby.gba -w 300) and enjoy in VBA.
Now, if you're looking for Linux on a Nintendo GameCube console, you're out of luck: that's the only one that can boot only from a completely proprietary storage medium. There's currently no way to get homebrew code to run on the thing. If it could boot off one of the ports on the bottom (like the GBA can), the situation would be somewhat different.
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Instead disabling Alt-Tab just irritates me
In fact, any game that disables standard Windows shortcuts such as Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Esc is not a conforming Windows application and may not carry the "Compatible with Microsoft Windows" logo.
Every patch can change the license. How often am I expected to read it all.
I am not a lawyer, but I see how this could potentially be used in court: A user agreed to a contract under the reasonable expectation that Sony did not materially change its spirit.
at this point he can indeed click i disagree, but then he's pretty much up the creek since the store wont take the opened game back.
Then, if EULAs are enforceable, the store is in violation of the EULA for not giving you the full refund. Report the store to the software publisher's legal department.
If the store won't exchange the title for a different title, then exchange one copy for another of the same title until you've gone through the store's stock of that title. Rinse and repeat, return and deplete. It's the same as with not-CD audio discs.
For any normal contract you are told the terms before you pay.
I agree that most EULAs are on shaky ground because they break the "terms before money" rule, but aren't you shown the terms before you sign up for a monthly EverQuest account?
information about visual user interfaces (which would likely contain screen shots of proposed interfaces) is difficult to convey to vision-impaired users; it may not even be relevant to them.
Not relevant? What about a blind manager with reasonably-sighted employees, who is trying to decide what IDE on which to standardize?
Insert joke about the blind leading the blind here.
But I still wonder how to make a feature film accessible to the blind (descriptive video service doesn't cut it for fast action movies), or music accessible to the deaf.
the program in question was written in Russia. As far as I know, the DMCA has no authority there.
However, Russian law cannot grant authority to sell Russian products to U.S. residents, which Elcomsoft did.
Sony explicitly expressed a desire that the DMCA would trump Sega vs. Accolade
The DMCA's circumvention ban doesn't seem written to trump USA antitrust law.
Section 1201(b) is directly tied to copyright infringement and the presence of substantial non-infringing use. The DeCSS case seemed to primarily involve 1201(b) because the way it was packaged (i.e. as a Windows executable) didn't fit the alleged intended use (i.e. playback of DVDs on BSD and Linux). On the other hand, if a mod chip is marketed as being designed for homebrew software development, and it comes with a CD containing a compiler toolchain and source code for example games, then it has a most obvious non-infringing use in line with its marketing, which is enough to satisfy 1201(b).
Only section 1201(a) of the DMCA seems to ban fair use in any way, and I'm not sure 1201(a) is even constitutional. It seems more of a trade secret issue than a copyright issue, and trade secret law is generally the states' job. Has the constitutionality of 1201(a) with respect to game console BIOS been tested in court?
They can punish the players if the are able to detect it, but that still does not prevent them from doing it.
What if the punishment includes not being able to do it again, such as a network-wide ban (from a game-world court) or an injunction (from a real-world court)? Then the court has prevented future cheating from happening. If you can no longer access your account nor sign up for a new account, you can't cheat.
The network connector?
And if your PC is not in the same room as your PS2, and you can't pull CAT5 cable through your walls (either you don't own your home or bringing the rest of your wiring up to the current code is prohibitively expensive), then what do you do?
Typically modchips also allow playing of pirated discs.
Do you know of a good way to distinguish homebrew software from pirated software?
Sony may also manage to convince the court that there are legal restrictions on allowing unlicenced software to use the software inside the PS2 ROMs.
That'll be somewhat difficult in light of the Sega v. Accolade decision. It'll be difficult for the plaintiffs' counsel to argue that the DMCA trumps Sega.
the linux kit comes with a hard drive too.
But how do you get things on and off that hard drive? Let me rephrase that:
PS2 Linux can't read CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, or DVD+RW media. Its only removable storage device large enough to hold a feature-length DivX movie is the network connector (and possibly the IEEE 1394 connector).
They ARE preventing you from shitting up their servers with your modified game, which seems perfectly fine to me.
Then why not provide the ability to run a server that players can choose to shit up? This is a problem unique to massively-multiplayer real-time gaming, that there is only one game world to play in.
Like calculate line of sight on client A for client B?
That would be even worse, as it would become possible for a modified client to affect other users' experiences even more negatively than the current cheats do.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any divx players for linux that have been ported to the ps2 yet
PS2 Linux can't read CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, or DVD+RW media. Its only storage devices are the 8 MB memory card and the network connector (and possibly the IEEE 1394 connector).
But nobody, can _ever_ stop the players from reading anything you send them or sending you whatever they want.
Not even the judicial branch of the real-world or game-world government?
Get phone call from Sony's lawyers
Grounds? What particular copyrighted work are you circumventing access controls on by using a mod chip? The DMCA's circumvention ban applies only with respect to a copyrighted work.
No grounds? Barratry can get a lawyer disbarred.
Learn that your Web server's disk died, bringing all of your research from the past couple of years down with it
A developer who is not smart enough to keep backups deserves it.
but on the previews for this they said it like 'car.'
The "Forsaken" video game, for PC, N64, and PSX, pronounces heat-seeking missile as "Soh-LAR-is" as in car, like on the TV commercial for the movie.
I pronounce the Sun operating systems' name as "Sun Oh Ess".
buying a new SMS is useless! u can play SMS, Neo Geo, GBA and lots of other roms and emulators
Except for the GBA (which connects to a PC with the MBV2 link cable) it's pretty dang hard to find mass produced cart readers for game consoles.
in your PC
Most PCs do not have television output nor large (25-inch or larger) displays.
so why would u buy a new SMS if u can get it and all the games for free on the internet?
Because the SMS hasn't existed for 50 years. Brazil has a copyright law.
OK, I guess this Tectoy SMS is probably licensed, but now I'm curious about Brazilian copyright and patent law.
Here we have patent law just like in the us.
In Brazil, do you also have software patents?
Do you have companies that apply for a patent, get it, hide it for years, and then enforce it, so as to harm other firms in the industry?
Do you have broad look-and-feel copyrights, which the USA had until Lotus v. Borland?
Do you have life+70 jail s^H^H^H^H^H^H copyright terms?
Do you have lawsuits over copying a mere four notes?
9 cents a minute DAMN!
Even the UK has calling plans with unlimited access to the ISP's phone number.
If I were you, I'd wait a couple years, save up a couple hundred thousand euros, and get out of that
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UT3K?? Wow, you must have a pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-release!
I want UT802K. In UT802K, you control Precious Moments people who have just learned that they have been bred as food for hordes of RMS-monsters for centuries.
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but do they have a review of nethack or moria or any other rogue-like?
"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" has been ported to the GBA platform. That should be similar enough to the rogue clones to pacify you until somebody ports one of the more popular roguelikes.
you're assuming that there are any games worth anyone's attention on teh lunix.
Assuming you have the appropriate cartridges and cart readers, you can run almost all NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy Advance games on Linux through emulation.
Why don't they make a Kirby PC game?
Nintendo doesn't make PC games. If you want to play Kirby on your PC, then buy a GBA, an MBV2 cable, and Kirby for GBA. Then space-shift the game to your PC (mb -1 kirby.gba -w 300) and enjoy in VBA.
So you want "Linux for game cube". You didn't specify "Nintendo" or capitalize "GameCube". Thus, any generic "game cube" is OK.
First of all, a "game cube" with a similar architecture to Nintendo's, the Power Macintosh G4 Cube, can run Yellow Dog Linux.
This roughly cube-shaped gaming PC and this even smaller PC can probably run Mandrake.
Now, if you're looking for Linux on a Nintendo GameCube console, you're out of luck: that's the only one that can boot only from a completely proprietary storage medium. There's currently no way to get homebrew code to run on the thing. If it could boot off one of the ports on the bottom (like the GBA can), the situation would be somewhat different.