I'd like to add that since the comment sections of Slashdot regularly feature pornographic, racist, and homophobic content, Slashdot is most likely violating the moral rights of captaincopyright.ca.
I'm sure a cease-and-desist letter will be forthcoming.
"Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own website to www.accesscopyright.ca or any of its pages with the following exception: in order to protect the moral rights associated with this site, permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of Access Copyright. Specifically, permission to link is explicitly withheld from sites featuring pornographic, racist or homophobic content."
To start this off, let me say that after reading this discussion I uninstalled pirated versions of SecureCRT, WinZip, WinRAR (I know:P), Homesite, FTP Voyager (the best shareware FTP client I have tried for Windows), mIRC, UltraEdit, Paint Shop Pro, GetRight, Paragon CD-Emulator, Partition Magic, Tag&Rename (mp3 id3 tagger), and ACDSee. I have used most of these programs for anywhere between 1-8 years and never once have I believed that it was 'Right' for me to be pirating the software.
So why did I use them for so long? I got my first home computer when I was in 8th grade, 8 years ago. It did not take long for me to become a 'Power User', and to be able to use my computer to the fullest I downloaded all sorts of useful utilities, most of them shareware. At the time I did not have the financial means ($2 a week allowance which I usually spent with my friends at the arcade or whatever), and besides I was a teenager and it was kind of cool to be "pirating" software!
As time went on I got so used to using the best that shareware had to offer that even though I began to realize it was wrong, I was so comfortable with the software that I never let the thought grow in my head. It is very easy for me, and I suspect most people, to ignore something that does not directly affect me in any way. And thats what I did, I just ignored it and went right on installing the pirated copies of all this software everytime I installed/re-installed an OS because it was all very useful to me.
Now I am 21 and graduating college in 2 months with a Computer Science degree. I certainly have the monetary means to purchase a few shareware programs, and the free software that is available now is far superior to what was available eight years ago. I am now in the process of looking carefully at every pirated program that I use and either: 1.) paying for it or 2.) finding a free alternative.
I do not consider myself a bad person and I will not try to convert people to my way of thinking. I just wrote this to state that for me there is no reason that I can justify my use of these products without paying for them.
The standard for QTV was a 20-30 second delay for people viewing on the proxy. For the new GTV, which is a seperate project from the now defunct QTV, the default is also 20 seconds, but it can be customized by the person running the GTV server.
Generally speaking, 20 seconds if enough to prevent useful spectator cheating in Quake3, but I dunno in Counter-Strike. Do people camp in one place for more then 20seconds?:)
-Louis
With the apparent death of the organized Quake3 TeamDM scene, more and more people are starting to look into good 'ole CTF again. Hey, we've been here the whole time and CTF is still going strong.
If you want to talk about an interesting online game to watch, try watching a league match of q3ctf. For most announced matches that have GTV, there is usually always at least 15-20 spectators watching, and even clan to clan scrims will usually garner 5-6 spectators. This is all for good reason: q3ctf is exciting to watch.
Whereas Camper-Strike is slow and battles are fought in brief spurts, and team dm is confusing and uninteresting to watch, CTF is all about the big plays, the teamwork, and yes, the luck. But hey, thats what makes it so exciting. Last night our clan played an intense matchup that was decided in the last 10 secods of the game. Down 1-0 and at a flag standoff with 10 seconds left in the match (each team has the other's flag so neither can cap), one of my teammates surprised the enemy flag carrier with haste and plasma gun, drilling him dead and returning our flag with 2 seconds left in the match. I had the enemy flag and was sitting on our flag platform waiting, and with 1 second left the score was tied and the game immediately went into overtime. The other team was shocked (they had thought it was over;) ), and in the confusion we a back-to-back cap and the sudden death was over before anyone even knew what happened.
Its stuff like this that makes CTF so damn fun. Check it out.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd like to add that since the comment sections of Slashdot regularly feature pornographic, racist, and homophobic content, Slashdot is most likely violating the moral rights of captaincopyright.ca.
I'm sure a cease-and-desist letter will be forthcoming.
Haha, the best part is from http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Ipnotice.aspx :
"Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own website to www.accesscopyright.ca or any of its pages with the following exception: in order to protect the moral rights associated with this site, permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of Access Copyright. Specifically, permission to link is explicitly withheld from sites featuring pornographic, racist or homophobic content."
Not exactly what you were looking for, but this might help:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp
To start this off, let me say that after reading this discussion I uninstalled pirated versions of SecureCRT, WinZip, WinRAR (I know :P), Homesite, FTP Voyager (the best shareware FTP client I have tried for Windows), mIRC, UltraEdit, Paint Shop Pro, GetRight, Paragon CD-Emulator, Partition Magic, Tag&Rename (mp3 id3 tagger), and ACDSee. I have used most of these programs for anywhere between 1-8 years and never once have I believed that it was 'Right' for me to be pirating the software.
So why did I use them for so long? I got my first home computer when I was in 8th grade, 8 years ago. It did not take long for me to become a 'Power User', and to be able to use my computer to the fullest I downloaded all sorts of useful utilities, most of them shareware. At the time I did not have the financial means ($2 a week allowance which I usually spent with my friends at the arcade or whatever), and besides I was a teenager and it was kind of cool to be "pirating" software!
As time went on I got so used to using the best that shareware had to offer that even though I began to realize it was wrong, I was so comfortable with the software that I never let the thought grow in my head. It is very easy for me, and I suspect most people, to ignore something that does not directly affect me in any way. And thats what I did, I just ignored it and went right on installing the pirated copies of all this software everytime I installed/re-installed an OS because it was all very useful to me.
Now I am 21 and graduating college in 2 months with a Computer Science degree. I certainly have the monetary means to purchase a few shareware programs, and the free software that is available now is far superior to what was available eight years ago. I am now in the process of looking carefully at every pirated program that I use and either: 1.) paying for it or 2.) finding a free alternative.
I do not consider myself a bad person and I will not try to convert people to my way of thinking. I just wrote this to state that for me there is no reason that I can justify my use of these products without paying for them.
Too true. Look at how many people listen to The'Latest'Boy'Band and Britney Spears. For that matter, someone voted George Bush president... Damn.
The standard for QTV was a 20-30 second delay for people viewing on the proxy. For the new GTV, which is a seperate project from the now defunct QTV, the default is also 20 seconds, but it can be customized by the person running the GTV server.
:)
-Louis
Generally speaking, 20 seconds if enough to prevent useful spectator cheating in Quake3, but I dunno in Counter-Strike. Do people camp in one place for more then 20seconds?
With the apparent death of the organized Quake3 TeamDM scene, more and more people are starting to look into good 'ole CTF again. Hey, we've been here the whole time and CTF is still going strong.
;) ), and in the confusion we a back-to-back cap and the sudden death was over before anyone even knew what happened.
If you want to talk about an interesting online game to watch, try watching a league match of q3ctf. For most announced matches that have GTV, there is usually always at least 15-20 spectators watching, and even clan to clan scrims will usually garner 5-6 spectators. This is all for good reason: q3ctf is exciting to watch.
Whereas Camper-Strike is slow and battles are fought in brief spurts, and team dm is confusing and uninteresting to watch, CTF is all about the big plays, the teamwork, and yes, the luck. But hey, thats what makes it so exciting. Last night our clan played an intense matchup that was decided in the last 10 secods of the game. Down 1-0 and at a flag standoff with 10 seconds left in the match (each team has the other's flag so neither can cap), one of my teammates surprised the enemy flag carrier with haste and plasma gun, drilling him dead and returning our flag with 2 seconds left in the match. I had the enemy flag and was sitting on our flag platform waiting, and with 1 second left the score was tied and the game immediately went into overtime. The other team was shocked (they had thought it was over
Its stuff like this that makes CTF so damn fun. Check it out.
-Louis
PS. visit clan orifice @ www.orifice.org