You got to be a that character that is an INTERNET nerd and goes around doing rare stuff to prove points, like buying a domain to show how shitty xkcd is.
I wonder if corporations, Game studious and even organizations like the RIAA read this stories and above all, its reactions, had they read the way people reacted to Bioshocks copy protection, they would have gained even more revenue. People on other countries (3rd world countries mostly)that cant be sued by these companies, for copying the game and giving it to an entire circle of friends, downloading them from Torrent sites or Edonkey networks dont care about what the legal problems, so making it harder for them to own a game will simply hurt their sales worldwide too. These companies should be investing the money they spend on DRM, on knowing their customers.
You know something is utterly wrong when corporations decide to bypass the users and go directly to(enforce) "propose" a law to the same politicians they support with money in their campaigns to help them selfs convince you that they have the right solution for the economy your wealth and the good of the community. "Sick of the oil prices? the economy is bad, so consider this as a new law that will help the economy and benefit you!" (sarcasm)
So? I'll be broke after the lawsuit anyway. And before my money goes to the RIAA, I'd prefer it to be in the hands of a lawyer with the chuzpah to fight them.
Don't forget what amounts of money we're talking here, and what people. We're not talking about the average 50ish person building a nestegg. The average defendant is someone who is in or just out of college, deeply enough in debt that they have to work their way out for 20 or so years anyway and for whom it doesn't really matter if you stack 8k or 80k on top of that. He is in bankrupcy after that.
So why not fight it? Any good reasons? ^True, Corporations kinda take advantage of those in desperate situations, but they dont seem to understand that if you corner someone and leave him no choice, they will react and fight to the death. I also dont understand why in the US college seems so expensive, restricting education (information) for those who can pay thousands of dollars or those who are dumm enough to go into debt for it, its just the wrong way to do it; (germany will barely charge you for education), But oh well, The Us is not my country so i should not judge. So college students with great debts seem like an easy catch, but a single piranha in a bowl is still dangerous. I say fight in court, give them nothing and take from them everything, never retreat, never surrender.
I though about the same thing when i saw it. Perhaps the Mayans had much more knowledge than just pure mathematics. The apocalypse seems near, it would happen when they predicted it, with a huge sun glare, and perhaps a "color" president in the US. Sounds pretty familiar.
i think everyone is still here, just the numbers of morons grows more and more every day
"let's make technology accessible" they said... lmao, true and i guess its proportional to global warning.
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Really mankind? After http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html are we really in the position to waste our helium on a freaking flying house? I weep for humanity.
Don't know, it would take me exponential time to figure it out...
I am with stupid?
On other news, kids have been caught on a new trend sniffing pepper from a prostitutes ass. They claim its to relieve their asthma.
I guess CERN is too afraid to be responsible for doomsday in 2012 after all...
How autonomous can it be if you need to manually refill the tank? Or maybe they discovered some perpetual machine to power the cars!
You got to be a that character that is an INTERNET nerd and goes around doing rare stuff to prove points, like buying a domain to show how shitty xkcd is.
and like all parties it will go into corruption as time goes by, people cant be trusted for long. But its a good start for now.
I am batman!
can they create them while not marketing them? as research meanwhile?
anyone else considered what if cout > had been patented? rofl stupid example, try innovating around building blocks...
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i am having a flashback to 1984
in the future they will all look like this trying to increase that limited scope http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/2008/04/23/captcha.jpg
I wonder if corporations, Game studious and even organizations like the RIAA read this stories and above all, its reactions, had they read the way people reacted to Bioshocks copy protection, they would have gained even more revenue. People on other countries (3rd world countries mostly)that cant be sued by these companies, for copying the game and giving it to an entire circle of friends, downloading them from Torrent sites or Edonkey networks dont care about what the legal problems, so making it harder for them to own a game will simply hurt their sales worldwide too. These companies should be investing the money they spend on DRM, on knowing their customers.
You know something is utterly wrong when corporations decide to bypass the users and go directly to(enforce) "propose" a law to the same politicians they support with money in their campaigns to help them selfs convince you that they have the right solution for the economy your wealth and the good of the community. "Sick of the oil prices? the economy is bad, so consider this as a new law that will help the economy and benefit you!" (sarcasm)
I though about the same thing when i saw it. Perhaps the Mayans had much more knowledge than just pure mathematics. The apocalypse seems near, it would happen when they predicted it, with a huge sun glare, and perhaps a "color" president in the US. Sounds pretty familiar.