Per person? They'll just cycle through people. Per company? Oh, look... we went out of business last night and...wouldn't you know it...reopened for business today under a new name.
There is no easy fix that does not involve pouring tons of man hours (money) into oversight, and no one is going to pony up the dough to do so. The real problem now is that starting from scratch with the law really is the best alternative available, but so many political people have so much invested up to this point that they'd never back down.
All anyone can do at this point is make sure stories like this get out in the open so that people are aware of just how twisted and unequal our laws are applied when money gets involved.
Several years ago if you tried running a server on one of the major ISPs in the US using a residential connect and your usage was spiking they'd contact you and point out that your 'agreement' with them prohibits hosting servers. I don't know if they still do that.
Us little guys are supposed to consume, not produce.
I made the mistake of buying Diablo 3 without doing my homework. I didn't know about the always online requirement. Never again will I participate in a game that forces you to connect to a server to play by yourself. There is no benefit to the consumer, only headache and inconvenience. I'm sorry that they are having problems with piracy, but there are limits to how much I will inconvenience myself over someone else's problem. When a game causes more stress than it relieves it is no longer worth playing.
That's without even taking into account the fact that I will not buy an EA game any time soon, no matter what the title or how much I loved the franchise in years past. I have had nothing but had experiences with them for years now. I really don't want to boycott ANY game company. Even SOE has redeeming moments. EA though, has consistently screwed me over each and every time I've given them a chance.
Yes, it feels like soon they'll devolve to blaming the consumers for daring to not consume their products. "This would have been a success if only more consumers jumped on board!" No shit, Sherlock.
They took a chance in going in a new direction, and the lost the bet. Now they're just trying to use their size to muscle the change in anyway instead of backtracking, because that would be admitting failure.
"Once Invisible Tracck comes within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of a cellular network it will 'wake up' and alert authorities."
There is no reason for fancy EMPs or trying to trace the devices themselves... This doesn't do ANYTHING while out in the forest. It activates when it comes within range of a network. You could knock down every tree in the forest and this would do nothing until you actually move the lumber. The simplest solution would be to run a metal detector over each tree as it's loaded for moving. From there you either leave the offending tree there or search for and remove the device.
In the EU, apparently all meat ingredients should be traceable as well. Why don't we just pull up *those* records and...oh wait, that's kind of the point of this whole mess...
If horses are mysteriously ending up in consumer grade beef at this rate, I somehow doubt that the people doing it care much for those records either.
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And it wouldn't be possible to introduce that "safe harbor" under a new law because....?
Per person? They'll just cycle through people. Per company? Oh, look... we went out of business last night and...wouldn't you know it...reopened for business today under a new name.
There is no easy fix that does not involve pouring tons of man hours (money) into oversight, and no one is going to pony up the dough to do so. The real problem now is that starting from scratch with the law really is the best alternative available, but so many political people have so much invested up to this point that they'd never back down.
All anyone can do at this point is make sure stories like this get out in the open so that people are aware of just how twisted and unequal our laws are applied when money gets involved.
Several years ago if you tried running a server on one of the major ISPs in the US using a residential connect and your usage was spiking they'd contact you and point out that your 'agreement' with them prohibits hosting servers. I don't know if they still do that.
Us little guys are supposed to consume, not produce.
This just in - Steam offers 100 year video game rentals in Germany...
(Something tells me it isn't that simple)
I made the mistake of buying Diablo 3 without doing my homework. I didn't know about the always online requirement. Never again will I participate in a game that forces you to connect to a server to play by yourself. There is no benefit to the consumer, only headache and inconvenience. I'm sorry that they are having problems with piracy, but there are limits to how much I will inconvenience myself over someone else's problem. When a game causes more stress than it relieves it is no longer worth playing.
That's without even taking into account the fact that I will not buy an EA game any time soon, no matter what the title or how much I loved the franchise in years past. I have had nothing but had experiences with them for years now. I really don't want to boycott ANY game company. Even SOE has redeeming moments. EA though, has consistently screwed me over each and every time I've given them a chance.
Yes, how tasteless... Now if you don't mind, I have a game to play. http://www.koboldsatemybaby.com/
Yes, it feels like soon they'll devolve to blaming the consumers for daring to not consume their products. "This would have been a success if only more consumers jumped on board!" No shit, Sherlock. They took a chance in going in a new direction, and the lost the bet. Now they're just trying to use their size to muscle the change in anyway instead of backtracking, because that would be admitting failure.
The memory is always the first thing to go...
"Once Invisible Tracck comes within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of a cellular network it will 'wake up' and alert authorities." There is no reason for fancy EMPs or trying to trace the devices themselves... This doesn't do ANYTHING while out in the forest. It activates when it comes within range of a network. You could knock down every tree in the forest and this would do nothing until you actually move the lumber. The simplest solution would be to run a metal detector over each tree as it's loaded for moving. From there you either leave the offending tree there or search for and remove the device.
While I don't believe this is in any way viable to enforce, I think it would be hilarious to sit back and watch the aftermath.
In the EU, apparently all meat ingredients should be traceable as well. Why don't we just pull up *those* records and...oh wait, that's kind of the point of this whole mess... If horses are mysteriously ending up in consumer grade beef at this rate, I somehow doubt that the people doing it care much for those records either.
Thank you.