Naah, I don't intend to/justify/ it. I just object to claiming piracy is no different from theft (deprivation of sale/versus deprivation of a good AND a sale). Most of my objections are on a PC market, where you have to worry about tons of viri on legally purchased games. I usually "justify" my own piracy, when I do it (not common) by spending an equal amount of money on DRM-free companies' products, and playing both. This way I can protect myself from dangerous malware, ensure I can always play the game in the future even if they decide to turn off the DRM, and still support the industry. I know this doesn't make it right, but it's the best compromise I can find in my moral principles.
I do like that console games are a physical dongle, so they really can't stop you from reselling it and the like, though with the new switch to DLC I'm afraid that first sale might go right out the window.
Yes. But rather than focusing on the needs, wants, and desires of those who would never give you money and will get it for free no matter what you do, the companies would do better to make better products.
Though I've always wondered how even the most pro-piracy people could claim 'slew of inferior games' is a justification to pirate...if it sucks, wouldn't you/not/ want to waste time playing it?
It's kind of naive the way you blame pirates for the excesses of the industry. As if any kind of "lock out" can stop people in it for the thrill combined with nearly endless freetime, or an audicence of many people who are willing to pirate because they just want nice things for free.
On the other hand, such lock out can easily prevent honest customers from exercising their rights (first sale), and create difficulties for them that they just won't easily resolve. May even drive some to piracy to avoid all the headaches.
Region codes have nothing to do with piracy, they exist solely to support price discrimination by region and prevent first sale doctrine. There's a reason Australia's otherwise-draconian DMCA-equivalent explicitly allows disabling DRM to eliminate such structures.
My solution to the crap the industry pulls is more on the stop playing games side than the piracy side, but it's pretty easy to see how this goes.
Disclaimer: This was on top of a 45 minute each way commute.
I found it killed my day. I still ahd to get there at 8am, but had to stay until 6pm. Every. Day. That extra hour makes a HUGE difference, at least to me. Even though my job had decently flexible hours on top the 9/80, there are limits to that. It changes the time you get home from evening to night.
The non-off fridays got out at 5pm instead of 6pm, and I felt so much better I couldn't even believe it. The off fridays were usually spent too exhausted from the week to do anything but sleep and catch up on errands.
YMMV. I'm usually someone who likes to work long periods of time without interruption, but this was absolutely miserable.
Since they reward cheaters, the entire company quickly gets filled by manipulative assholes.
Alas, far too many medical professionals:-( I have to look pretty hard to find a doctor who actually wants to help people. Once you find one they can usually refer you to more of the same when it comes to specialists though.
Identd can be configured to send out the username (or UID, forget which) of the current user whenever they initiate a connection from their account on a UNIX system. That hash can then be supplied to the sysadmins who can decrypt it to see which user did something.
I don't see why a similar principle couldn't be used here, especially since Apple isn't limited to a very small size for the ID (I believe 64 bits, could be wrong). Just have a bunch of keys, encrypt it with strong symmetric encryption, and put it in. You ever want to trace it back, quick and easy.
The problem is that there is quite a bit of prior art to this. For example, Dungeon Keeper in which you can just sit there after building a dungeon, or you can take over a creature using first-person controls.
Well if you want to go there, most modern linux filesystems support ACLs as well, they're just not generally needed since programs only ask for root if they need it...
Oh data mining can sift through threats to the status quo---erm I mean freedom! quite easily, believe me. Machine learning is capable of quite a bit of strange magic.
If OP is happily employed than I don't think it has anything to do with a waaahmbulance I think it has to do with him being lucky/skilled/etc enough to find a job he likes that pays an amount that is mutually agreeable to him and his employer.
Each employee gets some quantity of demands. I'm not picky on pay but I'm quite picky on what I do. It works out for me. Or did until we hit this economic shitstorm.
Well this is why you use something like LUKS. The key storage is carefully mapped out to prevent defect mapping (or rather make it very unlikely) and the rest of the drive is encrypted.
So even if they manage to grab an entire block, a single bitflip anywhere would render the contents unusable if you're using a proper chaining algorithm.
Of course if you're actually concerned about the cleanroom as I see from your post below, then maybe helping starving orphans help the Soviets isn't worth the risk of doing so;)
Having a tank would make technical support a lot more satisfying:
C: "Hello, is this technical support?" M: "Yes. May I help you?" C: "There's a big black thing where my Internet Windower Vista should be" M: "Very well sir. Did you turn your computer on?" C: "....is that under the start menu?"
Personally if I had national-security level things, I'd:
1) Only buy hard drives made in America. Yes spies exist here too, but less national pressure. The non-paranoid may skip this step. 2) Overwrite the encryption key storage area with 32 passes of shred 3) Overwrite the entire disk with 4-7 passes of shred then zero it 4) Smash it and/or melt it down
Here's the thing. I don't really want to trust either a completely software or completely hardware solution to minimize potential attack vectors. That said, for personal use I just use steps 2 and 3 above.
Simple. Obama represents a larger set of AMERICA than/. Some of those people are rich and make large campaign donations.
When I voted for him I knew I was compromising. I knew he'd do all kinds of things I wouldn't like. But I also knew that the alternative was going to fuck up everything at least as badly, if not far worse. Even this included, and with the AG appt, I like Obama more now than I did before the election. He'd have to appoint Jack Valenti* to the Supreme Court or AG or Copyright Czar or something for me to dislike him too much, and what would it take for him to suck as much as McCain or, god forbid, Dubya?
Sure. Politicians sell out. They support bridges to nowhere (Obama did vote for it, after all. Riders suck). They make compromises and cut deals to get things done. Some of those deals suck for some people.
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Naah, I don't intend to /justify/ it. I just object to claiming piracy is no different from theft (deprivation of sale/versus deprivation of a good AND a sale). Most of my objections are on a PC market, where you have to worry about tons of viri on legally purchased games. I usually "justify" my own piracy, when I do it (not common) by spending an equal amount of money on DRM-free companies' products, and playing both. This way I can protect myself from dangerous malware, ensure I can always play the game in the future even if they decide to turn off the DRM, and still support the industry. I know this doesn't make it right, but it's the best compromise I can find in my moral principles.
I do like that console games are a physical dongle, so they really can't stop you from reselling it and the like, though with the new switch to DLC I'm afraid that first sale might go right out the window.
Yes. But rather than focusing on the needs, wants, and desires of those who would never give you money and will get it for free no matter what you do, the companies would do better to make better products.
Though I've always wondered how even the most pro-piracy people could claim 'slew of inferior games' is a justification to pirate...if it sucks, wouldn't you /not/ want to waste time playing it?
It's kind of naive the way you blame pirates for the excesses of the industry. As if any kind of "lock out" can stop people in it for the thrill combined with nearly endless freetime, or an audicence of many people who are willing to pirate because they just want nice things for free.
On the other hand, such lock out can easily prevent honest customers from exercising their rights (first sale), and create difficulties for them that they just won't easily resolve. May even drive some to piracy to avoid all the headaches.
Region codes have nothing to do with piracy, they exist solely to support price discrimination by region and prevent first sale doctrine. There's a reason Australia's otherwise-draconian DMCA-equivalent explicitly allows disabling DRM to eliminate such structures.
My solution to the crap the industry pulls is more on the stop playing games side than the piracy side, but it's pretty easy to see how this goes.
Way to drink the flavor-aid.
Thank you for reminding me of why I hate "free" markets.
I was wondering how we were going to win the War on Tourism!
Disclaimer: This was on top of a 45 minute each way commute.
I found it killed my day. I still ahd to get there at 8am, but had to stay until 6pm. Every. Day. That extra hour makes a HUGE difference, at least to me. Even though my job had decently flexible hours on top the 9/80, there are limits to that. It changes the time you get home from evening to night.
The non-off fridays got out at 5pm instead of 6pm, and I felt so much better I couldn't even believe it. The off fridays were usually spent too exhausted from the week to do anything but sleep and catch up on errands.
YMMV. I'm usually someone who likes to work long periods of time without interruption, but this was absolutely miserable.
No one ever got fired for installing MMPI on the server maintenance employees.
Since they reward cheaters, the entire company quickly gets filled by manipulative assholes.
Alas, far too many medical professionals:-( I have to look pretty hard to find a doctor who actually wants to help people. Once you find one they can usually refer you to more of the same when it comes to specialists though.
Identd can be configured to send out the username (or UID, forget which) of the current user whenever they initiate a connection from their account on a UNIX system. That hash can then be supplied to the sysadmins who can decrypt it to see which user did something.
I don't see why a similar principle couldn't be used here, especially since Apple isn't limited to a very small size for the ID (I believe 64 bits, could be wrong). Just have a bunch of keys, encrypt it with strong symmetric encryption, and put it in. You ever want to trace it back, quick and easy.
Only thing more we could ask for is a warning hwen you download it, but that's not important.
It'll play on anything I put it on, I can share a copy with a friend or burn a few mix CDs.
I'm usually a big Apple critic and I hate DRM, but this is fine by me.
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The problem is that there is quite a bit of prior art to this. For example, Dungeon Keeper in which you can just sit there after building a dungeon, or you can take over a creature using first-person controls.
It's about as likely to infect your computer with spyware/trojans/viri as a legally purchased copy.
Well if you want to go there, most modern linux filesystems support ACLs as well, they're just not generally needed since programs only ask for root if they need it...
Oh data mining can sift through threats to the status quo---erm I mean freedom! quite easily, believe me. Machine learning is capable of quite a bit of strange magic.
I'm the opposite when it comes to trusting authenticity. Remember how often meth labs blow up...
If OP is happily employed than I don't think it has anything to do with a waaahmbulance I think it has to do with him being lucky/skilled/etc enough to find a job he likes that pays an amount that is mutually agreeable to him and his employer.
Each employee gets some quantity of demands. I'm not picky on pay but I'm quite picky on what I do. It works out for me. Or did until we hit this economic shitstorm.
Once again we see it's not size, but how you use it. Come on, it fits in any normal PCI slot!
Someone's compensating for his compensation...
Well this is why you use something like LUKS. The key storage is carefully mapped out to prevent defect mapping (or rather make it very unlikely) and the rest of the drive is encrypted.
So even if they manage to grab an entire block, a single bitflip anywhere would render the contents unusable if you're using a proper chaining algorithm.
Of course if you're actually concerned about the cleanroom as I see from your post below, then maybe helping starving orphans help the Soviets isn't worth the risk of doing so;)
Having a tank would make technical support a lot more satisfying:
C: "Hello, is this technical support?"
M: "Yes. May I help you?"
C: "There's a big black thing where my Internet Windower Vista should be"
M: "Very well sir. Did you turn your computer on?"
C: "....is that under the start menu?"
*rumble rumble*.....BOOM!
Personally if I had national-security level things, I'd:
1) Only buy hard drives made in America. Yes spies exist here too, but less national pressure. The non-paranoid may skip this step.
2) Overwrite the encryption key storage area with 32 passes of shred
3) Overwrite the entire disk with 4-7 passes of shred then zero it
4) Smash it and/or melt it down
Here's the thing. I don't really want to trust either a completely software or completely hardware solution to minimize potential attack vectors. That said, for personal use I just use steps 2 and 3 above.
And healthcare costs drop suddenly...
Fox 2 News Headline:
TERRORISTS might strike next at our WATER supplies
Fixed that for you.
Simple. Obama represents a larger set of AMERICA than /. Some of those people are rich and make large campaign donations.
When I voted for him I knew I was compromising. I knew he'd do all kinds of things I wouldn't like. But I also knew that the alternative was going to fuck up everything at least as badly, if not far worse. Even this included, and with the AG appt, I like Obama more now than I did before the election. He'd have to appoint Jack Valenti* to the Supreme Court or AG or Copyright Czar or something for me to dislike him too much, and what would it take for him to suck as much as McCain or, god forbid, Dubya?
Sure. Politicians sell out. They support bridges to nowhere (Obama did vote for it, after all. Riders suck). They make compromises and cut deals to get things done. Some of those deals suck for some people.
* It's funnier if I wait for someone to point out he's dead first, but I'm going away after I post this. http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eler-highlights-2008