Oh I know all about that, having written at least one (proof of concept, buggy as hell, fake architecture) emulator myself.
Essentially, I've found VirtualBox can run some windows games that don't run in wine (not really a virtualizer or an emulator, it reimplements parts of the Windows API on top of Linux libs), at least not for me. (Diablo may be listed as working but I've followed all the instructions and...nope)
I use dosbox for anything that goes in dos, it's not like XP can play most of those anyway.
Also can be used to install things like iTunes in a sandbox for requiem. Which, apparently, is actually legal, since from my understanding of the DMCA you just can't/distribute/ DRM bypass tools or do it for other people.
Then add a featured app category or something, and only give the "Apple Fanboi Approved" stamp to it. Or don't require crippled signing to run, and only host the things you like on the store.
iPhone is neat hardware. As soon as linux for it is stable I might consider one. Or I could just pay less for an FreeRunner. I can afford to wait for a year or two.
I've been burned by apple's poor worksmanship and terrible tech support/warranty too many times to consider their platform again.
I also found that the encryption hit can such a fair bit in HL2. If you use a cracked version, the content is decrypted in advance rather than on the fly. Of course this was on hardware that could barely handle the game cpu-wise, so ymmv.
For me it's mostly fear that I won't be able to play in the future. If it's a single player game I want to install it on as many of my computers as I can without phoning home. Luckily most of the games I play were released before I was born (3 microprose), so I don't have to deal with this DRM crap much on either side of the law.
Then you clearly don't understand how computer security works. If people don't disclose security flaws they find, then software gets no more secure and your windows box keeps churning out spam.
Seriously. If people learn that finding vulnerabilities means they get fixed they'll go white hat. If people learn that companies are incompetent, lazy fools who would rather look good then to their jobs they'll sell the info to crackers who can make money off it.
I've seen it go both ways. The kid did the right thing to disclose it, and breaking in without damaging anything was amoral.
Because you don't want your school to have a broken network. Sometimes you encounter a system that's so wide open that "breaking in" is the same as just trying to use it. Think so-called "url hacking". I have to change URLs all the time to get buggy sites to work. People have been punished for that (MIT business school scandal a while back, though I don't disagree there it's an important point)
That's why when I broke into 's computer network a few years ago I left an anonymous note on how to fix the vulnerability on their wide-open company-wide Samba.
The problem is that the average incompetent IT codemonkey just wants to make a problem "go away" and to them and those managing them that just means lawyers.
There is no excuse for not testing your app if you claim to support a system. There is no excuse for allowing an unprivileged userspace program (or evne most root programs) to cause a kernel panic.
Pretty sure you're renting, not buying, if you get from library, so I'd be surprised if you were allowed to. If it's legal at all I'd suspect you are required to delete the rips after you return the CDs.
As to my original post, not a joke. I am genuinely curious. I don't think it's likely mix tapes/ CDs are (or, frankly, ever were) legal but would love to see evidence to the contrary, both for aesthetic and practical reasons
Well IIRC the DMCA only makes helping someone else/distributing a tool to circumvent, for any reaosn including legal ones, a crime. Receiving such a tool is not illegal, nor is having, using, or creating one.
So if I download requiem off the tubes (before it moved to freenet) I'm not breaking the law but the guy who is hosting it is.
So offer a FreeDOS version like Dell does (used to?). Maybe I want to install an older version of linux/already have a copy of XP/Vista (legally)
Just because Microsoft chooses to ignore the right of first sale and your right to move Windows to another machine doesn't mean you can't legally do so (and if you just do it once, it's unlikely the activation/validation/registration/assimilation process will stop you, IIRC)
Does anyone know, is this the most restrictive DRM yet on a mainstream title? I'm curious why people are so hateful against spore's DRM over that on other games.
Then again, I can't think of any other games that has a hard limit of installs. Great way to eliminate right of first sale.
I don't know that it's any slower on windows (and I'm a linux fanboi). It depends how much ram your computer cares about at the time, on linux at least. (I do believe, but could be completely wrong, that newer chipsets can power ram selectively, to only maintain chips in use.)
But yeah, I've found it takes 30s-1m to go in/come out in windows and linux on similar hardware. Then again, the linux was to 256 bit encrypted with Serpent swap.
My computers, new, have always gotten about 30 mins past what they claim it will, when I turn down brightness, wireless and ethernet off, and let it sit in a dark room with soothing music playing on my desktop without having to do any work.
Since battery life depends so wildly on wifi, brightness, load, etc, hours is a silly measure. It's like all those idiotic solid-state music players that list "XXXX" songs, assuming a certain bitrate and length. Of course, thanks to iTunes/Amazon and MTV, those last two are fairly constant.
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Oh I know all about that, having written at least one (proof of concept, buggy as hell, fake architecture) emulator myself.
Essentially, I've found VirtualBox can run some windows games that don't run in wine (not really a virtualizer or an emulator, it reimplements parts of the Windows API on top of Linux libs), at least not for me. (Diablo may be listed as working but I've followed all the instructions and...nope)
I use dosbox for anything that goes in dos, it's not like XP can play most of those anyway.
Also can be used to install things like iTunes in a sandbox for requiem. Which, apparently, is actually legal, since from my understanding of the DMCA you just can't /distribute/ DRM bypass tools or do it for other people.
Because it costs a lot
Then add a featured app category or something, and only give the "Apple Fanboi Approved" stamp to it. Or don't require crippled signing to run, and only host the things you like on the store.
iPhone is neat hardware. As soon as linux for it is stable I might consider one. Or I could just pay less for an FreeRunner. I can afford to wait for a year or two.
I've been burned by apple's poor worksmanship and terrible tech support/warranty too many times to consider their platform again.
And to retro video game players like me;)
I also found that the encryption hit can such a fair bit in HL2. If you use a cracked version, the content is decrypted in advance rather than on the fly. Of course this was on hardware that could barely handle the game cpu-wise, so ymmv.
For me it's mostly fear that I won't be able to play in the future. If it's a single player game I want to install it on as many of my computers as I can without phoning home. Luckily most of the games I play were released before I was born (3 microprose), so I don't have to deal with this DRM crap much on either side of the law.
Then you clearly don't understand how computer security works. If people don't disclose security flaws they find, then software gets no more secure and your windows box keeps churning out spam.
Seriously. If people learn that finding vulnerabilities means they get fixed they'll go white hat. If people learn that companies are incompetent, lazy fools who would rather look good then to their jobs they'll sell the info to crackers who can make money off it.
I've seen it go both ways. The kid did the right thing to disclose it, and breaking in without damaging anything was amoral.
Because you don't want your school to have a broken network. Sometimes you encounter a system that's so wide open that "breaking in" is the same as just trying to use it. Think so-called "url hacking". I have to change URLs all the time to get buggy sites to work. People have been punished for that (MIT business school scandal a while back, though I don't disagree there it's an important point)
That's why when I broke into 's computer network a few years ago I left an anonymous note on how to fix the vulnerability on their wide-open company-wide Samba.
The problem is that the average incompetent IT codemonkey just wants to make a problem "go away" and to them and those managing them that just means lawyers.
I actually really like wx GUIs. But I'm a programmer, which makes any opinions I hold on GUIs automatically flawed.
Anyone who has more than once contemplated if maybe he should forget X and just switch to a VT and screen doesn't get a vote.
"Dude, video-taping this crime spree was the best idea we ever had!"
There is no excuse for not testing your app if you claim to support a system.
There is no excuse for allowing an unprivileged userspace program (or evne most root programs) to cause a kernel panic.
It's a bug in both Vista and iTunes.
Pretty sure you're renting, not buying, if you get from library, so I'd be surprised if you were allowed to. If it's legal at all I'd suspect you are required to delete the rips after you return the CDs.
As to my original post, not a joke. I am genuinely curious. I don't think it's likely mix tapes/ CDs are (or, frankly, ever were) legal but would love to see evidence to the contrary, both for aesthetic and practical reasons
The frustrating part is they already have the songs as legally as I do; the cool part is the order and audio effects applied to them.
*nerd rage*
Well IIRC the DMCA only makes helping someone else/distributing a tool to circumvent, for any reaosn including legal ones, a crime. Receiving such a tool is not illegal, nor is having, using, or creating one.
So if I download requiem off the tubes (before it moved to freenet) I'm not breaking the law but the guy who is hosting it is.
Those are legal? Are they still? I mean if it's actually a mix tape/CD as opposed to a complete copy.
I have a lot of emo friends with birthdays coming up
So offer a FreeDOS version like Dell does (used to?). Maybe I want to install an older version of linux/already have a copy of XP/Vista (legally)
Just because Microsoft chooses to ignore the right of first sale and your right to move Windows to another machine doesn't mean you can't legally do so (and if you just do it once, it's unlikely the activation/validation/registration/assimilation process will stop you, IIRC)
Not mine.
You're right, newspapers should have datelines.
Does anyone know, is this the most restrictive DRM yet on a mainstream title? I'm curious why people are so hateful against spore's DRM over that on other games.
Then again, I can't think of any other games that has a hard limit of installs. Great way to eliminate right of first sale.
As soon as I pirate windows I plan to buy Democracy II. Thanks for the cool products:-)
the US is the best democracy in the world! One dollar, one vote.
I don't know that it's any slower on windows (and I'm a linux fanboi). It depends how much ram your computer cares about at the time, on linux at least. (I do believe, but could be completely wrong, that newer chipsets can power ram selectively, to only maintain chips in use.)
But yeah, I've found it takes 30s-1m to go in/come out in windows and linux on similar hardware. Then again, the linux was to 256 bit encrypted with Serpent swap.
My computers, new, have always gotten about 30 mins past what they claim it will, when I turn down brightness, wireless and ethernet off, and let it sit in a dark room with soothing music playing on my desktop without having to do any work.
Since battery life depends so wildly on wifi, brightness, load, etc, hours is a silly measure. It's like all those idiotic solid-state music players that list "XXXX" songs, assuming a certain bitrate and length. Of course, thanks to iTunes/Amazon and MTV, those last two are fairly constant.
Doesn't the US have a blank media levy too in the form of music CD-Rs? Of course, you can just buy the cheaper, physically-identical "data cd-r"
Yarr! *waves pirate hook*