First, 24 years is quite a long time and not necessarily representative of today's climate. Second, I'm fairly certain that if businesses moved out of California to Montana, the tables would turn drastically.
Seriously this. So someone gave a government-funded website some shit for toeing the government line. It's not like they silenced it or deleted it from the internet.
This isn't akin to any serious crime. This is about as dangerous as someone writing a funny phrase on a wall with a marker (and takes just about as much effort to clean up after), and people should treat it as such.
What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read In every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television. This message must resound throughout the entire interlink! I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want every man woman and child to understand how close we are to chaos.
They could have made a new Thief, a new Hitman, Legacy of Kain, or Timesplitters. What did we get?
A couple of lackluster entries from the tired Tomb Raider franchise while everything else sat on the back burner. They held back some of the most revered franchises of all time, and for what? What were they waiting for?
And if you think every other government doesn't do exactly the same thing, then you're a fucking retard.
Everyone hiding secrets doesn't make hiding secrets the right thing to do, so you gotta start somewhere. Also, I don't think he claimed that nobody else was doing it.
Let's say filing fee was $200 a suit, then they spent another $100 to pay someone to serve each defendant.
That's $6,900,000 before they even get to court. What if they spent $2000 per defendant in prosecution? That's $55,200,000 in court costs altogether, for a movie that netted $190 million. Even if every single one of the defendants bought the damn blu-ray and the studio got $20 for every copy sold, that's still only $460,000 in total revenues. This is an obvious shakedown; get more money hoping for settlements than actually prosecuting. I hope all their lawyers get disbarred as a lesson.
I wish you could be modded to 10. They're playing this off like we should be slobbering all over ourselves in gratitude that the police aren't blasting bullet holes through people for using an unsecured wifi connection.
Don't get me wrong--I'm all for spending money on the education of our youth and I'd love to see the government spend a LOT more on it (maybe shave a couple hundred billion off the military budget or something...). But their parents are already getting paid $2,000+ per year per child (Federal Rabbit-Like Breeding Subsidy) and get a higher amount of deductions to boot--and my property taxes largely go toward the local schools as well. I would like to buy an iPad 2, but apparently I already did. It just wasn't mine.
If you refused to let the government regulate corporations, your power bill in a four bedroom house would be $500 a month, your water bill would be $200 a month, your garbage would be $100 a month, and your taxes would go WAAAAAAAAAY up when the contractors who maintain your roads charge the government even more ludicrous sums of money than they already do.
Corporations and government should keep each other in check, not collude against little people like you and me.
DRM only (marginally) benefits one party, and it is intrusive to varying degrees depending on the method used. It does strongly resemble malware those respects. If I got a piece of malware on my computer that required that I connect to the internet or worse, pop a specific disc into my computer every time I ran the program, I'd be pretty pissed.
1. Refusing to move to the back of a bus for a white person.
Geez, it's just a seat! Come on, why don't you just move? You're ruining it for other bus passengers by disrupting their ride.
2. Throwing hundreds of crates of someone else's tea into the harbor
Geez, it's just a small tax! Come on, why don't you just stop drinking tea? You're ruining it for other tea drinkers by disrupting their supply of tea.
3. DDoS on Sony.
Geez, it's just video games! Come on, why don't you just stop buying from Sony? You're ruining it for PSN users by disrupting their service.
I don't care if it's balanced; it can be slapped together for all I care, just as long as I don't lose connection with the other player(s). That's a multiplayer mode that I can get into. Can't say I like all the weak competitive multiplayer in games that don't need it.
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First, 24 years is quite a long time and not necessarily representative of today's climate. Second, I'm fairly certain that if businesses moved out of California to Montana, the tables would turn drastically.
Seriously this. So someone gave a government-funded website some shit for toeing the government line. It's not like they silenced it or deleted it from the internet.
This isn't akin to any serious crime. This is about as dangerous as someone writing a funny phrase on a wall with a marker (and takes just about as much effort to clean up after), and people should treat it as such.
What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read In every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television. This message must resound throughout the entire interlink! I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want every man woman and child to understand how close we are to chaos.
Nobody was seriously harmed in the hack. My amusement has made up for your lack thereof.
"The Department of Justice has sent a letter to Texas legislative leaders warning that the rule would run counter to federal laws."
What ever happened to the 4th amendment? Isn't that federal law?
Did you see the other Slashdot story about the senate vote on extending the Patriot Act?
On the off chance that Christ does not take me home, I would like to have my lawn green up in a couple of weeks.
This should be the big story. Uganda, anyone?
Sounds a lot like chasing witches, communists, drugs, and terrorists. And wind. And their own tails.
Why do governments love chasing what they can't catch?
Why couldn't you just say it's "a bit over two leagues"?
They could have made a new Thief, a new Hitman, Legacy of Kain, or Timesplitters. What did we get?
A couple of lackluster entries from the tired Tomb Raider franchise while everything else sat on the back burner. They held back some of the most revered franchises of all time, and for what? What were they waiting for?
And if you think every other government doesn't do exactly the same thing, then you're a fucking retard.
Everyone hiding secrets doesn't make hiding secrets the right thing to do, so you gotta start somewhere. Also, I don't think he claimed that nobody else was doing it.
If I had information I wanted to leak, I'd want them legally bound to secrecy too.
Let's say filing fee was $200 a suit, then they spent another $100 to pay someone to serve each defendant.
That's $6,900,000 before they even get to court. What if they spent $2000 per defendant in prosecution? That's $55,200,000 in court costs altogether, for a movie that netted $190 million. Even if every single one of the defendants bought the damn blu-ray and the studio got $20 for every copy sold, that's still only $460,000 in total revenues. This is an obvious shakedown; get more money hoping for settlements than actually prosecuting. I hope all their lawyers get disbarred as a lesson.
Watch as Comcast and other ISPs claim how much HD film watchers are "degrading the quality of their networks".
I wish you could be modded to 10. They're playing this off like we should be slobbering all over ourselves in gratitude that the police aren't blasting bullet holes through people for using an unsecured wifi connection.
Don't get me wrong--I'm all for spending money on the education of our youth and I'd love to see the government spend a LOT more on it (maybe shave a couple hundred billion off the military budget or something...). But their parents are already getting paid $2,000+ per year per child (Federal Rabbit-Like Breeding Subsidy) and get a higher amount of deductions to boot--and my property taxes largely go toward the local schools as well. I would like to buy an iPad 2, but apparently I already did. It just wasn't mine.
If you refused to let the government regulate corporations, your power bill in a four bedroom house would be $500 a month, your water bill would be $200 a month, your garbage would be $100 a month, and your taxes would go WAAAAAAAAAY up when the contractors who maintain your roads charge the government even more ludicrous sums of money than they already do.
Corporations and government should keep each other in check, not collude against little people like you and me.
If we cut that back to 1/6th of our spending on military, we'd still be the top spender in the world.
If we cut 90%, we'd be the world's second-highest spender.
If we cut back 95%, we'd be 10th.
You, sir, have too much faith in the intelligence, responsibility, and rationality of the average citizen.
My kingdom for a mod point!
DRM only (marginally) benefits one party, and it is intrusive to varying degrees depending on the method used. It does strongly resemble malware those respects. If I got a piece of malware on my computer that required that I connect to the internet or worse, pop a specific disc into my computer every time I ran the program, I'd be pretty pissed.
A little off topic, but did anyone see they recently added Realms of the Haunting?
...by giving graf_chokolo and geohot money. My household is free of Sony products too, and has been that way since the rootkits.
1. Refusing to move to the back of a bus for a white person.
Geez, it's just a seat! Come on, why don't you just move? You're ruining it for other bus passengers by disrupting their ride.
2. Throwing hundreds of crates of someone else's tea into the harbor
Geez, it's just a small tax! Come on, why don't you just stop drinking tea? You're ruining it for other tea drinkers by disrupting their supply of tea.
3. DDoS on Sony.
Geez, it's just video games! Come on, why don't you just stop buying from Sony? You're ruining it for PSN users by disrupting their service.
I don't care if it's balanced; it can be slapped together for all I care, just as long as I don't lose connection with the other player(s). That's a multiplayer mode that I can get into. Can't say I like all the weak competitive multiplayer in games that don't need it.