When those countries have wanted to use their native letters (such as A/AE) they had to pay some obscure american company some money because they had some sort of patent.
The wonderfull European Union has added tax on internet services (even things like Everquest) - if you buy something from the US via the Internet, it is thought to be the duty if the seller to account for the tax - but if this becomes illegal in the US.. what then?
Really? I didn't know that, i though it only worked that way for LAN servers.
And i don't mind (much) buying a good game, though most are milking the copyright concept with too high prices, but what i do object to is this big brother attitude some seem to be taking.
Wasn't Half Life the first big game that required a unique key for each player that was submitted back to the mothership before allowing online play?
Sounds like Activation to me.
I haven't bought HalfLife;-)
But no, its not "real" Activation. real activation is where the program will not work at all (or only for a brief period) before you need to communicate with the mothership, and get authentication keys based on your hardware/software configuration.
You can play single player HalfLife forever. You can play LAN games of HalfLife forever.
I'm not sure you can play on the internet without your CD key being validated by WON servers though - this is borderline, but not quite as bad since its just a key you got when you bought the CD(and not something calculated based on the system set) - of course you have the problem if the servers go down, or gets taken down. As we can see now, they are changing to their new EvilWare system "Steam" and will remove the Won servers, at that point most people will be forced to use steam (or quite likely someone will hack the game so it can play without)
ID as usual did it better, they had a CD key as well, but if the game was unable to authenticate with the server it would still allow you to play (presumably there was some other penalty, such as you couldn't join some servers who insisted on a validated id)
SBC realizes that if a case can be brought against many of their subscribers for downloading mp3's - then by extension they were facilitating theft knowingly by advertising how to do it
Downloading music isn't theft - though sometimes it's a copyright violation. The two are not interchangeable.
Which sounds confusing and incomprehensible, but that's mac for you. And it doesn't answer the question everybody is dying to know: If you don't want to install flash, what happens when you encounter a page that wants it?
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The Academy members will just download the movies from the internet instead!
20 years ago, oil was supposed to run out in 50 years. A few weeks ago, I read a report that said that oil will run out in 50 years.
That's because the rest of the world learned to cut down on their oil spending, except the US of course who build SUV's instead.
... that was the most boring trailer i've seen...
I dont know why duality was posted, its almost three years old
Because the slashdot editors hadn't heard about it before now!
Great, "more than 60 million U.S. citizens ... use file-sharing software" - so they can't be wrong either then? ;-)
... why this never works when i'm trying it - ie the redirect ... are they blocking some domains?
.... soemcompany.com redirects to a pron site ;-)
...if whoever wrote this up told us (us as in the rest of the world) what the heck Vonager is, and why the charge money?
When those countries have wanted to use their native letters (such as A/AE) they had to pay some obscure american company some money because they had some sort of patent.
(yeah vauge, but i can't find a link right now)
... they'll start working on the script!
The wonderfull European Union has added tax on internet services (even things like Everquest) - if you buy something from the US via the Internet, it is thought to be the duty if the seller to account for the tax - but if this becomes illegal in the US.. what then?
Really? I didn't know that, i though it only worked that way for LAN servers.
And i don't mind (much) buying a good game, though most are milking the copyright concept with too high prices, but what i do object to is this big brother attitude some seem to be taking.
I had a Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I didn't have a hard drive... I had a cassette tape drive.
:)
Yeah, but that was then - this is now
The downside is that you'll fill up the harddrive in 5 seconds!
If the domain name isn't registered to begin with - does it matter?
Wasn't Half Life the first big game that required a unique key for each player that was submitted back to the mothership before allowing online play?
;-)
Sounds like Activation to me.
I haven't bought HalfLife
But no, its not "real" Activation. real activation is where the program will not work at all (or only for a brief period) before you need to communicate with the mothership, and get authentication keys based on your hardware/software configuration.
You can play single player HalfLife forever. You can play LAN games of HalfLife forever.
I'm not sure you can play on the internet without your CD key being validated by WON servers though - this is borderline, but not quite as bad since its just a key you got when you bought the CD(and not something calculated based on the system set) - of course you have the problem if the servers go down, or gets taken down. As we can see now, they are changing to their new EvilWare system "Steam" and will remove the Won servers, at that point most people will be forced to use steam (or quite likely someone will hack the game so it can play without)
ID as usual did it better, they had a CD key as well, but if the game was unable to authenticate with the server it would still allow you to play (presumably there was some other penalty, such as you couldn't join some servers who insisted on a validated id)
VUshitgames.com requires you to use Flash?! Does the Linux communite have Flash?
It's sadly amusing that we get lessons in morality from somone that doesn't even have the wherewhital to use their name.
Oh, wait... this is Slashdot.
Its also irrelevant for what his opinions are. He's not running for president.
Valves new slowdown/bloatware system "Steam" ? They are going to chance over from the Won servers in a couple of weeks (alledgely)
SBC realizes that if a case can be brought against many of their subscribers for downloading mp3's - then by extension they were facilitating theft knowingly by advertising how to do it
Downloading music isn't theft - though sometimes it's a copyright violation. The two are not interchangeable.
Which will probably end when NYTimes gets tired of people leeching on them - get a free req instead.
Get a life kid ;)
That's great, you can actually read it :)
(No, moderator, don't waste a point on modding this redundant, do your job and find something interesting to mod UP instead)
PLEASE MOM, I WANT TO KNOW? WHY? WHY?
It's another way for lazy bums to keep making money for not or little work.
Which sounds confusing and incomprehensible, but that's mac for you. And it doesn't answer the question everybody is dying to know: If you don't want to install flash, what happens when you encounter a page that wants it?