Add to that the fact that most of these cases start out as "RIAA vs unidentified defendant" and they used court ressources to have the defendant's name and address be known to them, so now they can run off and send them a "give us 2,000$ or we'll sue you into utter destitution" threatening extortion letter. They've been doing that for years.
When even the Florida Bar Association has expelled him for life with no possibility of being reinstated, you know that Thompson must clearly be unhinged. Then again, you'd expect that from a guy who has been consistently been suing his own bar association, all the judges he can name and tried to get criminal charges pressed against Penny Arcade for the heinous act of (GASP!) giving money to a children's charity.
This is the legal equivalent of threatening to mug someone at knifepoint, but saying "ha ha ha it was just a joke!" when the person calls the cops, and being let off free.
I do not claim a "god given right" to an ISP account (as you so eloquently put it - your words, not mine) but rather I decry the fact that the MUSIC industry has taken a position where it can choose to disconnect people's INTERNET service without having to bother with minor technicalities like "due process" or "evidence". Their argument to using a "graduated response" is rather flimsy, since you don't get to defend yourself from being on the receiving end of ANY of those steps.
... when you can have the ISPs act as your own personal police and be above the law? Guilty upon accusation shall be the law of the land, and there shall be neither trials nor appeals. The music industry has become its own level of authority sitting on the side of the judicial, and shall not be accountable for any of the many, many abuses of power that are sure to follow.
I find it scary that school authorities will take the word of a child caught in th eact breaking the rules and automatically assume that a kid accusing others is necessarily telling the truth. It wasn't me who made all those Tsarkon Rep posts on slashdot sir I swear! Go strip search Anonymous Coward!!!
That means that you can't go patenting "a visual display to transmit data in visual form over a rapidly updated and refreshed rectangular optical screen" and then go sue every television and LCD display maker under the sun. So much for my idea to patent breathing.
Oh yeah, snake oil.
Between these "gravity waves" I've never heard about (despite college my level quantum physics classes), the nearly magical (and unexplained) use of superconductivity effect and the obvious HHGTG reference, I smell a rat.
It was only a matter of time before another total nutjob stood up to take his place as the anti-gaming figurehead, really. I'm just surprised it took this long.
It's exactly this sort of thing that buttresses my doubts about democracy. I know you were going for catchy headlines, but both of them are grossly oversimplified.
I don't see why it wouldn't work, Fox News has been doing that for years!
Because without direct access to the physical computer, it requires (as any other malware or virus does) an entryway from the internet and cooperation from the operating system. Anyone can destroy my laptop with the keys to my appartment and a sledgehammer, but doing it from a distance requires a windows flaw to exploit.
...but this should show them that their previous business model has failed. It simply cannot function in an Internet-enabled society. How are they going to succeed? I have no idea...I don't have any idea.
The solution is clear! The RIAA simply needs to shut down the internet permanently so hard-working folks like Kanye West and Britney Spears can maintain their well-deserved lap of luxury.
Agreed. It's when my opponent acts confused and shocked when I pull some unexpected crap that I know I'm facing off a human being. That and getting spammed with insults about my skill, my family, my dating gender preference and that I'm cheating.
Now even Microsoft enters this sad, pathetic game. One day, no one will work anymore and no new ideas will be created - there will only be people suing each other over their patents on thinking, breathing and being alive.
Some years ago, I saw a printed ad for some Kingston RAM for sale, pretty cheap too, so of course I stop by the store and ask for that specific model. The sales guy puts a package with generic RAM in front of me, and asks for the 20$ higher regular price on that one. "That's not what's in the ad, or what I asked for at all." I said, to which he replied "That's what you're going to buy." I sneered at him and never stepped in that store again. In a way, I'm grateful he acted that way because as a result of his attitude, I found a smaller shop an hour later that had better prices and technically qualified sales clerks.
The problem with the speed throttling to the lowest active player is that within the first week, you'll start seeing speed griefers who will willingly overload their connection with 50 active bittorrent streams in order to bring down every other player to 1 second and higher ping times. Say goodbye to playing your game with any decent kind of speed ever again!
... let`s put a tax on GETTING stabbed. When people wake up in intense care with a sidewalk washing bill, maybe they`ll be more careful next time about letting young whippersnappers stab them while on a video game fueled rampage.
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Add to that the fact that most of these cases start out as "RIAA vs unidentified defendant" and they used court ressources to have the defendant's name and address be known to them, so now they can run off and send them a "give us 2,000$ or we'll sue you into utter destitution" threatening extortion letter. They've been doing that for years.
When even the Florida Bar Association has expelled him for life with no possibility of being reinstated, you know that Thompson must clearly be unhinged. Then again, you'd expect that from a guy who has been consistently been suing his own bar association, all the judges he can name and tried to get criminal charges pressed against Penny Arcade for the heinous act of (GASP!) giving money to a children's charity.
This is the legal equivalent of threatening to mug someone at knifepoint, but saying "ha ha ha it was just a joke!" when the person calls the cops, and being let off free.
I do not claim a "god given right" to an ISP account (as you so eloquently put it - your words, not mine) but rather I decry the fact that the MUSIC industry has taken a position where it can choose to disconnect people's INTERNET service without having to bother with minor technicalities like "due process" or "evidence". Their argument to using a "graduated response" is rather flimsy, since you don't get to defend yourself from being on the receiving end of ANY of those steps.
So when is Cyberdyne planning on officially launching Skynet?
... when you can have the ISPs act as your own personal police and be above the law? Guilty upon accusation shall be the law of the land, and there shall be neither trials nor appeals. The music industry has become its own level of authority sitting on the side of the judicial, and shall not be accountable for any of the many, many abuses of power that are sure to follow.
I find it scary that school authorities will take the word of a child caught in th eact breaking the rules and automatically assume that a kid accusing others is necessarily telling the truth. It wasn't me who made all those Tsarkon Rep posts on slashdot sir I swear! Go strip search Anonymous Coward!!!
How much bandwidth does it take to stream down my extra 8 gigs of RAM and 2 gig Nvidia 198000 GTXZZZ video card to play the latest Cry engine games?
That means that you can't go patenting "a visual display to transmit data in visual form over a rapidly updated and refreshed rectangular optical screen" and then go sue every television and LCD display maker under the sun. So much for my idea to patent breathing.
Oh yeah, snake oil. Between these "gravity waves" I've never heard about (despite college my level quantum physics classes), the nearly magical (and unexplained) use of superconductivity effect and the obvious HHGTG reference, I smell a rat.
It was only a matter of time before another total nutjob stood up to take his place as the anti-gaming figurehead, really. I'm just surprised it took this long.
Just when we thought that Orbo's outstanding success wouldn't be topped this century!
It's exactly this sort of thing that buttresses my doubts about democracy. I know you were going for catchy headlines, but both of them are grossly oversimplified.
I don't see why it wouldn't work, Fox News has been doing that for years!
Because without direct access to the physical computer, it requires (as any other malware or virus does) an entryway from the internet and cooperation from the operating system. Anyone can destroy my laptop with the keys to my appartment and a sledgehammer, but doing it from a distance requires a windows flaw to exploit.
Won't somebody PLEEEEEEEEASE think of the children!!!
...but this should show them that their previous business model has failed. It simply cannot function in an Internet-enabled society. How are they going to succeed? I have no idea...I don't have any idea.
The solution is clear! The RIAA simply needs to shut down the internet permanently so hard-working folks like Kanye West and Britney Spears can maintain their well-deserved lap of luxury.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I, for one, welcome our new bloodsucking bat overlords!
Agreed. It's when my opponent acts confused and shocked when I pull some unexpected crap that I know I'm facing off a human being. That and getting spammed with insults about my skill, my family, my dating gender preference and that I'm cheating.
Now even Microsoft enters this sad, pathetic game. One day, no one will work anymore and no new ideas will be created - there will only be people suing each other over their patents on thinking, breathing and being alive.
Some years ago, I saw a printed ad for some Kingston RAM for sale, pretty cheap too, so of course I stop by the store and ask for that specific model. The sales guy puts a package with generic RAM in front of me, and asks for the 20$ higher regular price on that one. "That's not what's in the ad, or what I asked for at all." I said, to which he replied "That's what you're going to buy." I sneered at him and never stepped in that store again. In a way, I'm grateful he acted that way because as a result of his attitude, I found a smaller shop an hour later that had better prices and technically qualified sales clerks.
Neverwinter Nights, the first graphical MMORPG, had all the elements most modern ones have (though far cruder of course), ran from 1991 to 1997.
Except the ability to look up at the sky.
The problem with the speed throttling to the lowest active player is that within the first week, you'll start seeing speed griefers who will willingly overload their connection with 50 active bittorrent streams in order to bring down every other player to 1 second and higher ping times. Say goodbye to playing your game with any decent kind of speed ever again!
... let`s put a tax on GETTING stabbed. When people wake up in intense care with a sidewalk washing bill, maybe they`ll be more careful next time about letting young whippersnappers stab them while on a video game fueled rampage.