If EA or whomever they bought the IP from failed to make reasonable efforts to protect their copyrights, then they can lose them. If these games existed for quite a while and EA or the original holder knew of them and did NOTHING to stop them, then it's possible that a judge could throw the works into public domain.
This is so incorrect. You can't lose your copyright because you don't defend it. You can lose trademarks that way, but nothing will ever force the work into the public domain.
If this law passes, I will convert my laptop over to an illegal copy of Windows just on principle (it came with OEM W7 Home Premium so I'm currently one of those who is running legal Windows). Civil disobedience and the like.
It's to keep a 12 year old from seeing 4 midgets gangbang a woman while pissing in her mouth and defecating on her chest while a hairy dwarf eats ice cream out of her anus.
Um, I'm pretty sure that's not ice cream there dude...
And the complaint makes you look like a douche. Who made you the arbiter of what things could be attached to music in an attempt to create something fun? Because you deem Guitar Hero dumb, you call the players "morons" and "non-musical people". What about all the people who started out playing GH, then picked up a real guitar and started learning it? Why do they conveniently get ignored during these stupid arguments? The elitist argument against GH was "waaaah, it's not real guitar, it's for posers, waaaah". Now, the argument against games using a real guitar (like this "Rocksmith" and RB3 pro mode) is "waaaah, it's dumb like GH even though it's a real guitar, it's for posers and idiots, waaaah".
We get it. You dislike it when other people are enjoying something that you either don't get, or that you suck at. Quit trying to piss all over everyone else who does enjoy the GH games. Get off my lawn, fucker.
Right, that would work well. So the headline would be "Alleged Pedo Teach Sues Student" so now, not only is he an asshole for diddling kids (in the public mindset), he's an asshole for suing kids. Do you like to encourage suicides or something?
Piracy had nothing to do with the Amiga failing - the C64 was even more full of piracy than the Amiga and it's still the best-selling model of home computer EVER. The Amiga failed because Commodore fucked it up, plain and simple. Even the OS devs knew this, and snuck an easter egg into WB/KS 1.2 saying so - Commodore made them remove it for 1.3.
So they should work to at least try to get something set up like Rock Band Audition mode, it IS possible, even if there are restrictions along the way.
If you can detect pirated games, sure, go ahead and ban people from playing the pirated game.
One snag - it is impossible to differentiate between legal backup and illegal warez. Both would be in the form of an ISO (or other disc image) and are indistinguishable. Now what do you say to the person who has a huge game collection and all his discs backed up legitimately?
Ok, people, I don't care if you agree with the man or not, but at least have the common decency to spell his fucking name right. A good chunk of the time I hear someone railing against him, they can't spell, where seriously guts their argument (if they even have one, if they're not saying "Glenn Beck is a doodiehead who farted on my mom" or something equally void of intellect).
What also amazes me is that people feel they are somewhat superior to others because they don't. And that they think they'll actually get people to listen to them by treating them as such.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Unfortunately, most anti-religious people are covered in vinegar nowadays.
The difference between a whistleblower and a snitch is the reason they report illegal behavior. A whistleblower does it because it's the ethical thing to do. A snitch does it because he got into trouble and is trying to save his own ass or cut a deal.
At least based on the "VOID" test image they released, I did a bit of analysis and found that the pixels in the word "VOID" were only off by one compared to the rest of the image (whether light or dark pixels). This suggests that this technique (at least in its current form) may be defeated easily (while still recompressing as JPG) if you are willing to quantize each RGB value to either the nearest even or odd value (such that these small variations can be removed). While this reduces the color space quite a bit (it would basically be the equivalent of 21-bit RGB instead of 24-bit), for most photographic imagery, this will be virtually imperceptible. I await further results of this technique to see how it can be improved for photographs (since that does seem to be the primary intended use).
Wow, I read this, and it says nothing about actual content, only the rating that the ESRB gives a game. That means we're going to see violent video game warnings and labels on fucking GUITAR HERO and ROCK BAND games. What the fuck? Text of the bill:
A BILL
To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(a) Regulation- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall promulgate regulations to require the warning label described in subsection (b) to be placed on the packaging of any video game that is rated T (Teen) or higher by the Electronics Software Ratings Board.
(b) Warning Label Content- The warning label required under a regulation issued under subsection (a) shall be placed in a clear and conspicuous location on the packaging of the applicable video game and shall state: `WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.'.
(c) Video Game Defined- As used in this Act, the term `video game' means any product, whether distributed electronically or through a tangible device, consisting of data, programs, routines, instructions, applications, symbolic languages, or similar electronic information (collectively referred to as `software') that controls the operation of a computer or telecommunication device and that enables a user to interact with a computer controlled virtual environment for entertainment purposes.
They're working on closing the analog hole. Ever heard of Cinavia? It's analog copy-protection added to the audio track before encoding that survives even recording via microphone. Remember the old "horror story" people warned about, where you'll have devices that won't let you record if copyrighted media is playing in the background? Well, that's what this is, except it kicks in on the playback end with devices that support Cinavia (and such support is required on all newly-manufactured Blu-ray players). I await the dark day when they try to make ALL devices that can play media support Cinavia, regardless of Blu-ray support - except professional equipment of course.
You're wrong, at least in the US. The original purpose of copyright was to promote the progress of science and useful arts. The copyright clause in the US Constitution says nothing about money.
Nothing can EVER compel someone to keep a GPL'd work available if they are found to be in violation. There are always two options - make source available, or stop making the binaries available.
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If EA or whomever they bought the IP from failed to make reasonable efforts to protect their copyrights, then they can lose them. If these games existed for quite a while and EA or the original holder knew of them and did NOTHING to stop them, then it's possible that a judge could throw the works into public domain.
This is so incorrect. You can't lose your copyright because you don't defend it. You can lose trademarks that way, but nothing will ever force the work into the public domain.
If countries are jumping off bridges then I've gotta see that, must be one hell of a bridge.
If this law passes, I will convert my laptop over to an illegal copy of Windows just on principle (it came with OEM W7 Home Premium so I'm currently one of those who is running legal Windows). Civil disobedience and the like.
It's to keep a 12 year old from seeing 4 midgets gangbang a woman while pissing in her mouth and defecating on her chest while a hairy dwarf eats ice cream out of her anus.
Um, I'm pretty sure that's not ice cream there dude...
And the complaint makes you look like a douche. Who made you the arbiter of what things could be attached to music in an attempt to create something fun? Because you deem Guitar Hero dumb, you call the players "morons" and "non-musical people". What about all the people who started out playing GH, then picked up a real guitar and started learning it? Why do they conveniently get ignored during these stupid arguments? The elitist argument against GH was "waaaah, it's not real guitar, it's for posers, waaaah". Now, the argument against games using a real guitar (like this "Rocksmith" and RB3 pro mode) is "waaaah, it's dumb like GH even though it's a real guitar, it's for posers and idiots, waaaah".
We get it. You dislike it when other people are enjoying something that you either don't get, or that you suck at. Quit trying to piss all over everyone else who does enjoy the GH games. Get off my lawn, fucker.
http://xkcd.com/359/
Right, that would work well. So the headline would be "Alleged Pedo Teach Sues Student" so now, not only is he an asshole for diddling kids (in the public mindset), he's an asshole for suing kids. Do you like to encourage suicides or something?
I stare down every man around if we're out in public. Whether they're looking at her or their back is turned to us. I'm paranoid.
You're more than paranoid, you're part of the problem. Get fucked.
PS3 is already BD-compliant. 360 is not, and I can't imagine it'll ever be, but that doesn't mean MS won't add Cinavia support in the future.
Notice how it says that Bea's Facebook page was updated at the same time Veloz's cellphone called 911.
No, I don't. I notice how it says that Beas' Facebook page was updated. Not Bea's. Unless this woman was channeling the spirit of Bea Arthur, that is.
Piracy had nothing to do with the Amiga failing - the C64 was even more full of piracy than the Amiga and it's still the best-selling model of home computer EVER. The Amiga failed because Commodore fucked it up, plain and simple. Even the OS devs knew this, and snuck an easter egg into WB/KS 1.2 saying so - Commodore made them remove it for 1.3.
So they should work to at least try to get something set up like Rock Band Audition mode, it IS possible, even if there are restrictions along the way.
If you can detect pirated games, sure, go ahead and ban people from playing the pirated game.
One snag - it is impossible to differentiate between legal backup and illegal warez. Both would be in the form of an ISO (or other disc image) and are indistinguishable. Now what do you say to the person who has a huge game collection and all his discs backed up legitimately?
Ok, people, I don't care if you agree with the man or not, but at least have the common decency to spell his fucking name right. A good chunk of the time I hear someone railing against him, they can't spell, where seriously guts their argument (if they even have one, if they're not saying "Glenn Beck is a doodiehead who farted on my mom" or something equally void of intellect).
What also amazes me is that people feel they are somewhat superior to others because they don't. And that they think they'll actually get people to listen to them by treating them as such.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Unfortunately, most anti-religious people are covered in vinegar nowadays.
The difference between a whistleblower and a snitch is the reason they report illegal behavior. A whistleblower does it because it's the ethical thing to do. A snitch does it because he got into trouble and is trying to save his own ass or cut a deal.
Yeah, in a ten-year-old OS. I'd rather the people who might have been implementing a more secure XP Autorun instead do work on W7 or 8.
At least based on the "VOID" test image they released, I did a bit of analysis and found that the pixels in the word "VOID" were only off by one compared to the rest of the image (whether light or dark pixels). This suggests that this technique (at least in its current form) may be defeated easily (while still recompressing as JPG) if you are willing to quantize each RGB value to either the nearest even or odd value (such that these small variations can be removed). While this reduces the color space quite a bit (it would basically be the equivalent of 21-bit RGB instead of 24-bit), for most photographic imagery, this will be virtually imperceptible. I await further results of this technique to see how it can be improved for photographs (since that does seem to be the primary intended use).
Isn't the whole point of the format that it knocks back the color pallet to ~256 colors?
Actually, no. GIFs can contain multiple image blocks, each with its own palette. Ever seen a GIF with just under 16-bit color? Check this shit out.
Wow, I read this, and it says nothing about actual content, only the rating that the ESRB gives a game. That means we're going to see violent video game warnings and labels on fucking GUITAR HERO and ROCK BAND games. What the fuck? Text of the bill:
A BILL
To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION REGULATION.
(a) Regulation- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall promulgate regulations to require the warning label described in subsection (b) to be placed on the packaging of any video game that is rated T (Teen) or higher by the Electronics Software Ratings Board.
(b) Warning Label Content- The warning label required under a regulation issued under subsection (a) shall be placed in a clear and conspicuous location on the packaging of the applicable video game and shall state: `WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.'.
(c) Video Game Defined- As used in this Act, the term `video game' means any product, whether distributed electronically or through a tangible device, consisting of data, programs, routines, instructions, applications, symbolic languages, or similar electronic information (collectively referred to as `software') that controls the operation of a computer or telecommunication device and that enables a user to interact with a computer controlled virtual environment for entertainment purposes.
They're working on closing the analog hole. Ever heard of Cinavia? It's analog copy-protection added to the audio track before encoding that survives even recording via microphone. Remember the old "horror story" people warned about, where you'll have devices that won't let you record if copyrighted media is playing in the background? Well, that's what this is, except it kicks in on the playback end with devices that support Cinavia (and such support is required on all newly-manufactured Blu-ray players). I await the dark day when they try to make ALL devices that can play media support Cinavia, regardless of Blu-ray support - except professional equipment of course.
So a direct quote from the Constitution is a "marketing slogan"?
You're wrong, at least in the US. The original purpose of copyright was to promote the progress of science and useful arts. The copyright clause in the US Constitution says nothing about money.
Nothing can EVER compel someone to keep a GPL'd work available if they are found to be in violation. There are always two options - make source available, or stop making the binaries available.
You are a disgusting person.