Yes, it?s easy to find out the IP?s of the corporate parents, but they need only get a consumer level DSL/Cable line or have some of their employees run their pirate hunting software at home... and they will be virtually impossible to track down.
They will also be much less effective. Someone's DSL or cable connection isn't going to be nearl as effective as the corporate T3 when it comes to searching out file swappers.
Most of my money goes to the Feed Kano Foundation. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and the various other needs of myself take so much of my money that I don't have enough for anything else.
Exactly. Apple is a business, nothing more and nothing less. Like any other business they will do whatever they have to in order to protect their revenue stream.
Just because they have the coolest toys doesn't make Apple any less of a business or any different than any other business.
I believe the reason the original Napster was brought down was because it was proven that the administrators of the Napster servers *could* monitor and control the content of the network.
Not exactly. It was "found" as in by a judge that they could do such filtering. As I'm sure we know the "finding" of a judge doesn't always have a basis in reality, in practice it was proven that they couldn't. People who were determined to swap copyrighted material using the site were able to do just that. Napster filtered by file name so people started naming their files in reverse. 3pm.enO - acillateM would evate the filter. Then if they added reverse filtering, people would do things like ROT13 their filenames. Or shift the order of the letters by one or encode them with 31337 5p34k and post them that way.
In the end Naptster was NOT able to control what was traded over a P2P network. No one can. The only way to stop it is to stop ALL P2P trading, but that isn't likely to happen.
If it becomes hard enough, people will go underground and trade in private rings.
I nearly got fired from a job once because "IT" locked the machines down too tight.
I needed to be able to see and change file extensions. Our accounts didn't allow this. I went to my my supervisors and asked for our accounts to be allowed to do these things. My requests were ignored.
I had to find a creative way to get around the idiotic limitations that were imposed by "IT". The assumption that no one had any experience with DOS were my way. I would get a DOS prompt and manually change file extensions as I needed to.
While plumbing around in DOS I found some things that "IT" didn't think we would. For example, all of the machines were running file servers, but we weren't supposed to share any files.
I shared this with the supervisors and as a result my employment was threatened for using "unauthorized functions".
See, by paying IGE $50 for 500 million gold pieces harvested by a room-full of starved Chinese children, you are cheating.
Wow, you raise elements of racism and child exploitation in your objection. I reject both. It doesn't matter how the gold or items in question are obtained as long as they're created through actual in game activity.
It's no different than encountering a friend online and having him or her give you the items that he or she isn't using.
I think that it's idiotic for Blizzard or anyone else to try to regulate your conduct outside of their game. Blizzard's reputation for being heavy handed and in general real assholes is just going to grow because of this.
IMHO, if you want to pay someone for the time they need to spend to go and find an in game item and bring it back to you, that's between the two of you. Blizzard has no standing to attempt to punish you for conduct outside of their game. Ban cheaters, that's fine, but real world business transactions are none of their business.
It isn't so much the items that are being sold as the time needed to acquire them. Spend 10 days of your life to gain the experience necessary to go into the dangerous places that have the item in question and then spend another 2 days looking for the item or spend $20 in the real world to save yourself all of that time.
It isn't about Blizzard IP because none of the items will ever turn up outside of the game.
I wish Sony well, but history shows that they do face an uphill battle. It's going to be HARD to unseat Nintendo. They are currently and have been for about 15 years now, the king of the handheld hill.
Sega, Atari, NEC, SNK, Nokia, and a few others have had their asses thoroughly kicked by Nintendo in the handheld market.
In all seriousness. Jury nullification and a willingness to spill blood will prevent bureaucrats from fucking the people while hiding behind the auspices of government.
Will any politician really fuck the people over if it means that he'll have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life?
The morality here is pretty complicated but I don't see how uploading could be imoral but downloading not.
It's Clinton-think. In a world where someone can have sexual relations with you while at the same time you're not having sexual relations with them, you can claim anything.
In such a world uploading can be immoral while downloading is not.
Seems to me like these "reforms" will only serve to lock out the small guy even more. Extra hurdles and extra expense will mean that only those who can afford the best patent attorney can get patents.
The system DOES need to change, but let's make sure that we change to a better system, not just a different one.
I was upgrading my linux box from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0, I had other things that I needed to get running before Sendmail so it was not running for 3 or 4 days. After I turned Sendmail back on my spam volume was much lower.
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Yes, it?s easy to find out the IP?s of the corporate parents, but they need only get a consumer level DSL/Cable line or have some of their employees run their pirate hunting software at home... and they will be virtually impossible to track down.
They will also be much less effective. Someone's DSL or cable connection isn't going to be nearl as effective as the corporate T3 when it comes to searching out file swappers.
LK
Most of my money goes to the Feed Kano Foundation. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and the various other needs of myself take so much of my money that I don't have enough for anything else.
LK
Exactly. Apple is a business, nothing more and nothing less. Like any other business they will do whatever they have to in order to protect their revenue stream.
Just because they have the coolest toys doesn't make Apple any less of a business or any different than any other business.
LK
I believe the reason the original Napster was brought down was because it was proven that the administrators of the Napster servers *could* monitor and control the content of the network.
Not exactly. It was "found" as in by a judge that they could do such filtering. As I'm sure we know the "finding" of a judge doesn't always have a basis in reality, in practice it was proven that they couldn't. People who were determined to swap copyrighted material using the site were able to do just that. Napster filtered by file name so people started naming their files in reverse. 3pm.enO - acillateM would evate the filter. Then if they added reverse filtering, people would do things like ROT13 their filenames. Or shift the order of the letters by one or encode them with 31337 5p34k and post them that way.
In the end Naptster was NOT able to control what was traded over a P2P network. No one can. The only way to stop it is to stop ALL P2P trading, but that isn't likely to happen.
If it becomes hard enough, people will go underground and trade in private rings.
I wonder if this will finally mean the end of http://www.piratebay.org/ (not that I'd wish that) ?
Probably not, the Pirate Bay is located in a country where it's legal do what they're doing.
I suspect that the *AA will start lobbying and suing ISPs to blacklist their address though.
LK
In TFA it's explained that he will be given a total of 60 lots than can be sold to others on his island.
If he can charge $450 each for them, he'll make his money back and get the benefit of taxing mining and hunting on the island.
This will all depend on the game being popular enough to remain active long enough for him to make his money back.
LK
I nearly got fired from a job once because "IT" locked the machines down too tight.
I needed to be able to see and change file extensions. Our accounts didn't allow this. I went to my my supervisors and asked for our accounts to be allowed to do these things. My requests were ignored.
I had to find a creative way to get around the idiotic limitations that were imposed by "IT". The assumption that no one had any experience with DOS were my way. I would get a DOS prompt and manually change file extensions as I needed to.
While plumbing around in DOS I found some things that "IT" didn't think we would. For example, all of the machines were running file servers, but we weren't supposed to share any files.
I shared this with the supervisors and as a result my employment was threatened for using "unauthorized functions".
LK
You came home to find some hung black dude plowing your woman, huh?
LK
See, by paying IGE $50 for 500 million gold pieces harvested by a room-full of starved Chinese children, you are cheating.
Wow, you raise elements of racism and child exploitation in your objection. I reject both. It doesn't matter how the gold or items in question are obtained as long as they're created through actual in game activity.
It's no different than encountering a friend online and having him or her give you the items that he or she isn't using.
LK
I don't play MMORPGS. I most likely never will.
I think that it's idiotic for Blizzard or anyone else to try to regulate your conduct outside of their game. Blizzard's reputation for being heavy handed and in general real assholes is just going to grow because of this.
IMHO, if you want to pay someone for the time they need to spend to go and find an in game item and bring it back to you, that's between the two of you. Blizzard has no standing to attempt to punish you for conduct outside of their game. Ban cheaters, that's fine, but real world business transactions are none of their business.
LK
It isn't so much the items that are being sold as the time needed to acquire them. Spend 10 days of your life to gain the experience necessary to go into the dangerous places that have the item in question and then spend another 2 days looking for the item or spend $20 in the real world to save yourself all of that time.
It isn't about Blizzard IP because none of the items will ever turn up outside of the game.
LK
In my experience most serious gamers play PC games. Many of them also play XBox, PS2, or GC as well.
LK
I wish Sony well, but history shows that they do face an uphill battle. It's going to be HARD to unseat Nintendo. They are currently and have been for about 15 years now, the king of the handheld hill.
Sega, Atari, NEC, SNK, Nokia, and a few others have had their asses thoroughly kicked by Nintendo in the handheld market.
LK
Exactly. It doesn't bother me if the police must obtain a warrant first.
This at least requires a minimum about of oversight by an authority higher than the cop who has it out for you.
LK
Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'....
I'm still digging slocate.
LK
How can you ever fight bureaucrats?
With bullets.
In all seriousness. Jury nullification and a willingness to spill blood will prevent bureaucrats from fucking the people while hiding behind the auspices of government.
Will any politician really fuck the people over if it means that he'll have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life?
I doubt it.
LK
Are you sure that he didn't die laughing at you?
LK
"Virgin Polo"
LK
Every issue always comes back to Clinton with you.
Only issues that involve intellectual dishonesty.
Did I bone your girlfriend or something? You seem to really have it out for me.
LK
The morality here is pretty complicated but I don't see how uploading could be imoral but downloading not.
It's Clinton-think. In a world where someone can have sexual relations with you while at the same time you're not having sexual relations with them, you can claim anything.
In such a world uploading can be immoral while downloading is not.
LK
Seems to me like these "reforms" will only serve to lock out the small guy even more. Extra hurdles and extra expense will mean that only those who can afford the best patent attorney can get patents.
The system DOES need to change, but let's make sure that we change to a better system, not just a different one.
LK
On my PC (Athlon XP 2800+ & Win XP) sometimes I still run games that I first played 14 years ago.
LK
97.5% for two days versus 100% for eternity. That's what I call diminished returns, any math geeks want to work that out?
LK
I did this by accident.
I was upgrading my linux box from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0, I had other things that I needed to get running before Sendmail so it was not running for 3 or 4 days. After I turned Sendmail back on my spam volume was much lower.
LK
Eye thought that eye was a loan.
LK