You'll find that the arena is not all that it is cracked up to be. 1v1 has no balance, and therefor is no fun, SGvSG is a lot more fun but takes a lot of coordination.
After the inital novelty wears off, things will go back to normal. I personally can't wait for SGvSG, because the tactics that these matches will entail...
I do not think this article belongs on Slashdot.
Just becuase you use the words "net" and "irc" on in the article does not make it anything but a silly sounding political rant.
Lets not make Slashdot a political soapbox for a select few. There are other sites for that.
With todays less than friendly legal climate, and more and more countries trying to gain a strangle hold on electronic communication, it is getting harder and harder to act in the liberal spirit of the Net of Old.
For example take the ever popular Napster, they are just providing the service, however they are the ones getting sued. You also are just providing a service. Do you have a plan worked out in case say, a ceartain sold out "heavy" metal band, sues you for housing their copyrighted works on your servers for a client? In the US ISP's are not responsible for any illegal activity that passes throught their gates. But you are not in the US and copyright law exists internationally.
Along a similar vein just because you can claim soverignty doesn't mean that you will be treated with love and respect from the international community. When the Big 8 says open up to our assorted policing organizations or we will cut your bandwidth off. Or just making it illegal for their citizens to do business with you, like offshore banks. Do you have a plan to protect your exisiting customers assets in case (or more likely, when) such a situation occurs?
Speakerftd -Nothing is worse than flying monkey crap on your windshield.
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You'll find that the arena is not all that it is cracked up to be. 1v1 has no balance, and therefor is no fun, SGvSG is a lot more fun but takes a lot of coordination.
After the inital novelty wears off, things will go back to normal. I personally can't wait for SGvSG, because the tactics that these matches will entail...
I do not think this article belongs on Slashdot. Just becuase you use the words "net" and "irc" on in the article does not make it anything but a silly sounding political rant. Lets not make Slashdot a political soapbox for a select few. There are other sites for that.
With todays less than friendly legal climate, and more and more countries trying to gain a strangle hold on electronic communication, it is getting harder and harder to act in the liberal spirit of the Net of Old.
For example take the ever popular Napster, they are just providing the service, however they are the ones getting sued. You also are just providing a service. Do you have a plan worked out in case say, a ceartain sold out "heavy" metal band, sues you for housing their copyrighted works on your servers for a client? In the US ISP's are not responsible for any illegal activity that passes throught their gates. But you are not in the US and copyright law exists internationally.
Along a similar vein just because you can claim soverignty doesn't mean that you will be treated with love and respect from the international community. When the Big 8 says open up to our assorted policing organizations or we will cut your bandwidth off. Or just making it illegal for their citizens to do business with you, like offshore banks. Do you have a plan to protect your exisiting customers assets in case (or more likely, when) such a situation occurs?
Speakerftd
-Nothing is worse than flying monkey crap on your windshield.