Yes, they were using actual WoW data files, including player and enemy models, sound effects and all that.
It's easy enough to do this without exposing yourself to the same liability. Host the protocol only and let the player download models/sounds/maps elsewhere. The protocol can redirect all requests for this material to the player's models or a 3rd party IP while hosting only interactive features, timing, chat, etc.
Offload copyright infringement to the individual (who in many cases already has a Blizzard license), and you really haven't done anything except permit a set of IP addresses to interact in a very protocol-heavy chat room using a functional game client of their choosing.
People who pay for dope should realize that they are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the more familiar flavor of terrorist does.
I believe that is reasonable, as long as alcoholics realize what it does to their families and neighborhoods, and cigarette smokers realize what it does to the environment and children and big tobacco, and caffeine drinkers realize what a neurotic society we are becoming...
Everything has a side effect, whether it's legal or not. So maybe we should get off the bandwagon of who caused the drug war.
...its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy....to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world...
AOL is representative of the Recently Unintended but now Omnipresent American Dream: Continue to fail miserably and pretend it didn't happen.
I tend to think of myself as being connected to what's happening in the internet universe but I am completely unaware of any strategy coming forth from AOL. Ten years after the giant Time Warner AOL merger and these guys spend their dollars taking owners of Advertising.com and Ad.com to court because their domain (not the use of the domain) infringes on AOL's prior use of Advertise.com which they branded Ad.com. What?
Of course AOL has already lost the case in district court against Advertising.com which is noted by the courts as "A generic and descriptive term to the Advertising industry, such that any agency might say they are in the Advertising.com business". Advertising.com loses against Advertise.com
What else are they working on that would make everyone in America feel so proud to be a part of? I want to give these guys my money. Send me some 1995-era blue-green CDs!
Since when did not helping your former employer result in federal prosecution? Okay the guy was an ass, and deserves to be sued beyond his recognition to be able to repay but.. really...
I can understand how that case can go to civil trial where both parties can represent themselves. But exactly how does being a dick to your former employer, failing to do your job properly, and making it difficult for people to reset your configurations constitute criminal activity?
If Jimbo Jones operates heavy machinery he may choose to make it difficult for everyone else to operate the same machinery. After being fired, he refuses to tell anyone how to get around his mechanical hack and is now a criminal? Never has technology been so poorly represented of what it is. Just a bunch of machinery and with forks and knives stuck in the gears.
On Thursday, the FCC dropped plans to build a framework for Net Neutrality
"The FCC had been engaged in closed-door meetings with companies such as Google Inc., Skype, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to work out a compromise.
But on Wednesday, rumors surfaced that Google and Verizon were close to hammering out their own separate deal on how to manage Web content.
The FCC warned against such a deal Thursday.
"Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable," Chairman Julius Genachowski said at a news conference after an FCC meeting Thursday.
Honestly, there's just too many comments about "jumping down Google's throat" and "NYTimes is disreputable" for my personal taste. People do need to harass Google because they are essentially the public doorway to the internet for 90% of all users. As esteemed techs and monitors of all things internet we have a responsibility to be aggravated about:
Invasion of Privacy
Net neutrality disruption
Overtly capitalist policies
Most people don't think of the internet as anything except where you search for your friends and funny videos. Without some vigilant bastards watching what everyone else does to the ignorant, we'll all lose both our rights and our gateways. There is no reason to trust The Great Google anymore than you would trust The Great Gatsby. It all looks pretty as a peach on paper but no one knows what's inside a man, or a beast, until it's undone.
It seems there is no doubt that this will be used the wrong way. Just look at all the domains that don't resolve which your ISP tries to "help" by sending you to lots of lovely ad pages. What if Wikileaks gets on the Blacklist? No matter what this is goodbye net neutrality.
Agreed, who cares what the vulnerability is - exploits are never-ending. The digitally signed certificate is a sure-fire method of defeating a number of defense mechanisms and penetrate the MS core even further. As always, the benefit to the code writer is that any MS OS can be fooled, including server systems.
The fact that so few domain criminals are arrested is frightening at the least. I know of at least 20 domains stolen this past year which had open market value of over $10,000 and not a single charge could be brought forward on any of the thieves. Daniel must have been uber-stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Yet another reason to use the new RPZ in BIND to blacklist all parked pages. Not really what anyone was hoping for though.
Like most 15 year old dogs, IE is slower and more prone to disease than younger browsers.
However it is not due to be put down anytime soon.
Yes, they were using actual WoW data files, including player and enemy models, sound effects and all that.
It's easy enough to do this without exposing yourself to the same liability. Host the protocol only and let the player download models/sounds/maps elsewhere. The protocol can redirect all requests for this material to the player's models or a 3rd party IP while hosting only interactive features, timing, chat, etc.
Offload copyright infringement to the individual (who in many cases already has a Blizzard license), and you really haven't done anything except permit a set of IP addresses to interact in a very protocol-heavy chat room using a functional game client of their choosing.
People who pay for dope should realize that they are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the more familiar flavor of terrorist does.
I believe that is reasonable, as long as alcoholics realize what it does to their families and neighborhoods, and cigarette smokers realize what it does to the environment and children and big tobacco, and caffeine drinkers realize what a neurotic society we are becoming...
Everything has a side effect, whether it's legal or not. So maybe we should get off the bandwagon of who caused the drug war.
Reality is policies cause wars, not people.
Was he watching hot gay porn while writing this?
Please amend "Do No Evil" to read "You'd better 'Do No Evil' or we'll get you!"
AOL is representative of the Recently Unintended but now Omnipresent American Dream: Continue to fail miserably and pretend it didn't happen.
.com business". Advertising.com loses against Advertise.com
I tend to think of myself as being connected to what's happening in the internet universe but I am completely unaware of any strategy coming forth from AOL. Ten years after the giant Time Warner AOL merger and these guys spend their dollars taking owners of Advertising.com and Ad.com to court because their domain (not the use of the domain) infringes on AOL's prior use of Advertise.com which they branded Ad.com. What?
Of course AOL has already lost the case in district court against Advertising.com which is noted by the courts as "A generic and descriptive term to the Advertising industry, such that any agency might say they are in the Advertising
What else are they working on that would make everyone in America feel so proud to be a part of? I want to give these guys my money. Send me some 1995-era blue-green CDs!
Since when did not helping your former employer result in federal prosecution? Okay the guy was an ass, and deserves to be sued beyond his recognition to be able to repay but .. really...
I can understand how that case can go to civil trial where both parties can represent themselves. But exactly how does being a dick to your former employer, failing to do your job properly, and making it difficult for people to reset your configurations constitute criminal activity?
If Jimbo Jones operates heavy machinery he may choose to make it difficult for everyone else to operate the same machinery. After being fired, he refuses to tell anyone how to get around his mechanical hack and is now a criminal? Never has technology been so poorly represented of what it is. Just a bunch of machinery and with forks and knives stuck in the gears.
Anything that can be used as a weapon, will eventually be used as a weapon.
I predict Erik Schmidt will make George Bush look like Mother Teresa.
On Thursday, the FCC dropped plans to build a framework for Net Neutrality
"The FCC had been engaged in closed-door meetings with companies such as Google Inc., Skype, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to work out a compromise. But on Wednesday, rumors surfaced that Google and Verizon were close to hammering out their own separate deal on how to manage Web content.
The FCC warned against such a deal Thursday.
"Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable," Chairman Julius Genachowski said at a news conference after an FCC meeting Thursday.
Google and Verizon have denied the rumors."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fcc-broadband-20100806,0,298861.story
Honestly, there's just too many comments about "jumping down Google's throat" and "NYTimes is disreputable" for my personal taste. People do need to harass Google because they are essentially the public doorway to the internet for 90% of all users. As esteemed techs and monitors of all things internet we have a responsibility to be aggravated about:
Invasion of Privacy
Net neutrality disruption
Overtly capitalist policies
Most people don't think of the internet as anything except where you search for your friends and funny videos. Without some vigilant bastards watching what everyone else does to the ignorant, we'll all lose both our rights and our gateways. There is no reason to trust The Great Google anymore than you would trust The Great Gatsby. It all looks pretty as a peach on paper but no one knows what's inside a man, or a beast, until it's undone.
"The past was erased," Schmidt said. "the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth". .
What ever happened to Do No Evil
It got beat up by The 3 Laws of Profit.
One stainless steel tongue depressor and two copper wires.
1) Create Secret Agency 2) Assert rights of Feds 3) Profit!
It seems there is no doubt that this will be used the wrong way. Just look at all the domains that don't resolve which your ISP tries to "help" by sending you to lots of lovely ad pages. What if Wikileaks gets on the Blacklist? No matter what this is goodbye net neutrality.
SSL isn't rep, it's security if you can call it that. And it's opt-in, not forced.
Or it could be that Slashdot is really the NSA!
Agreed, who cares what the vulnerability is - exploits are never-ending. The digitally signed certificate is a sure-fire method of defeating a number of defense mechanisms and penetrate the MS core even further. As always, the benefit to the code writer is that any MS OS can be fooled, including server systems.
I still stand by my original perspective on this device in perpetuity.
And we're impressed? I can make this for $1 and it will do nothing.
Jackeey = HiJack + HackeySac! Whooda thunkit?
The fact that so few domain criminals are arrested is frightening at the least. I know of at least 20 domains stolen this past year which had open market value of over $10,000 and not a single charge could be brought forward on any of the thieves. Daniel must have been uber-stupid.