Look, this isn't about the eighteen dollar ticket money anymore. This about being able to hold bad filmmakers responsible. This is just like when we got our money back for BASEketball.
Any prime-time show that manages to incorporate an Oscar Wilde reference is worth keeping.
"How shall I put this...in an attic somewhere, there's a portrait of you getting prettier."
A quick summary for those who don't want to click
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Small Webcasters Sue RIAA
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The complaint goes like this:
Prior to when the current webcaster royalty rates were determined, the RIAA met with Yahoo! to work out rates seperate from those put forth by the Librarian of Congress, or LOC. The LOC, in turn, used the Yahoo! rates as the baseline for a "fair market" royalty value.
A similar case occured between SoundExchange (a wholly owned subsidiary of the RIAA) and the Voice of Webcasters (VOW) organization, except that the rate was now four times what the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (what the LOC based the final decision on) had deemed okay.
The lawsuit alleges that the RIAA unfairly inflated the Yahoo! royalties to the point where they would not legitmately be a 'fair market value'...it was price-fixing, with Yahoo! as (possibly) an unsuspecting ally.
But what about Voice of Webcasters? Good question. The suit also claims that the RIAA/VOW negotiations were in bad faith on the part of the RIAA, and that the RIAA forced those VOW members who remained for the entire negotiation to enter into an agreement, later encoded into law as the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002, that would make it even harder for webcasters to survive.
Basically, the Webcaster Alliance wants the RIAA to be barred from enforcing their copyrights against webcasters until a legitimate, non-abusive rate can be found, and that the RIAA pay for their legal fees.
They're also asking for a jury trial. IANAL (duh), so I don't know if that's a good or bad idea.
Playing "nice" with the isp's who knowingly harbor spammers is no longer an option.
So screwing over the customers of such an ISP is?
Let's offer a hypothetical situation. Let's assume the RIAA found out that someone from a certain/19 was distributing, oh, let's say a Spider-Man 2 workprint. In order to put a stop to it, they subpoena the ISP for the names of everyone accessing the Internet through that/19, and then sue everyone on the list they get.
That's about what SPEWS is doing. They don't care about stopping spam while letting legitimate e-mail through. To them, ALL e-mail from a so-called "spam-friendly ISP" (which could mean anything from an ISP that activately recruits spammers to simply one that doesn't kick spammers off fast enough for some power-drunk netadmin in Bumfuck, TX) is spam. Don't like it? Find a different ISP!
Why should we support SPEWS when they do this, but hate the RIAA when they do it?
I had to do that for Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights myself...luckily, the SafeDisc was later removed.
Most games I buy nowdays, I never touch the CD...I pay the cash, download an ISO, install the crack, and usually get better performance in the bargain.
And the companies wonder why they're losing money.
Filters are a form of censorship, which is authoritarian in nature. This exists both as left-authoritarian (commonly viewed as communism), and right-authoritarian (commonly viewed as fascism or Nazism).
In addition to ARK, FunCom has an AO program called "The Professionals", where they choose two of the most well-known players of each class (usually the most helpful and knowledgeable) and ask them for input on how to balance the various classes.
I'm impressed by how much effort FunCom puts into Anarchy Online's CS personally...it's actually a lot better than most MMOGs I've played. *cough*"I cannot help thee with that."*cough*
Like I've argued before, no technology can be considered entirely good or entirely evil. Only the way it is used can be.
There's a technology out there that, in the US alone, costs people trillions of dollars a year from damage to property, and kills hundreds of thousands of people yearly - against, just in the US. Should such a technology be banned?
If so, then let's head back to the Stone Age, because you just outlawed fire! Sure, it can be used to kill people, but it can also be used for numerous good deeds.
So it is with even Palladium. Will it be used for evil deeds? Almost certainly. Does that make it evil in and of itself? Of course not.
People are going to complain...people HAVE been complaining...about Static not being a point-and-click adventure game like the first TLJ. And there's a good reason for that, too -- that type of game has a long and glorious history in computer gaming. Monkey Island, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle...heck, pretty much ANYTHING LucasArts is famous for that doesn't involve lightsabers.
But at the same time, such complaints miss the point. The Longest Journey was good not because it was a point-and-click adventure game, but because of its story. It may not be Lord of the Rings, but anyone who didn't feel even slightly sad when Cortez died has no heart whatsoever.
Will Static play differently from Longest Journey? Duh. Will it be worse because of that? Not necessarily. To think it will be is to be too focused on the choice of chisels to see the sculpture being created.
DRM, AS IT SEEMS LIKELY TO BE APPLIED (lol M$ lol), is evil. DRM itself is not. It is a tool, and like any tool, can be used for good or evil. Would you call a screwdriver evil? Would you call a C++ compiler evil?
What you described would be a case where DRM can be used for good. Good for you...if we threw out any technology just because it could possibly be used for evil, we wouldn't even have fire, let alone the Internet.
Actually, that's just one of the two explainations for that.
Another was that Han Solo was bragging to "uneducated rubes", and was basically pulling stuff out of his ass. According to this hypothesis, the "bullshit bragging" claim is supported by Obi-Wan Kenobi's knowing grin - he wasn't fooled, but Luke was.
Re:I can see a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Yeah. I mean, unless you've got the Sabbat acting as PENTEX enforcers in exchange for a fresh cup of blood every week, you're not exactly going to see much of a war between vampires and werewolves.
You might see a vamp get his fanged butt kicked if he tries to feed on a homid, but other than that...
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I see I wasn't the only one to think "James Randi will get a kick out of this for his weekly commentary".
As does Trillian, actually.
Look, this isn't about the eighteen dollar ticket money anymore. This about being able to hold bad filmmakers responsible. This is just like when we got our money back for BASEketball.
Any company that installs software designed to harm the functionality of your computer hardly qualifies as "honest".
Amusingly enough, it looks like France will be saving our asses this time.
Maybe not, but it'd be hilarious if they did.
Any prime-time show that manages to incorporate an Oscar Wilde reference is worth keeping.
"How shall I put this...in an attic somewhere, there's a portrait of you getting prettier."
The complaint goes like this:
Prior to when the current webcaster royalty rates were determined, the RIAA met with Yahoo! to work out rates seperate from those put forth by the Librarian of Congress, or LOC. The LOC, in turn, used the Yahoo! rates as the baseline for a "fair market" royalty value.
A similar case occured between SoundExchange (a wholly owned subsidiary of the RIAA) and the Voice of Webcasters (VOW) organization, except that the rate was now four times what the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (what the LOC based the final decision on) had deemed okay.
The lawsuit alleges that the RIAA unfairly inflated the Yahoo! royalties to the point where they would not legitmately be a 'fair market value'...it was price-fixing, with Yahoo! as (possibly) an unsuspecting ally.
But what about Voice of Webcasters? Good question. The suit also claims that the RIAA/VOW negotiations were in bad faith on the part of the RIAA, and that the RIAA forced those VOW members who remained for the entire negotiation to enter into an agreement, later encoded into law as the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002, that would make it even harder for webcasters to survive.
Basically, the Webcaster Alliance wants the RIAA to be barred from enforcing their copyrights against webcasters until a legitimate, non-abusive rate can be found, and that the RIAA pay for their legal fees.
They're also asking for a jury trial. IANAL (duh), so I don't know if that's a good or bad idea.
Playing "nice" with the isp's who knowingly harbor spammers is no longer an option.
/19 was distributing, oh, let's say a Spider-Man 2 workprint. In order to put a stop to it, they subpoena the ISP for the names of everyone accessing the Internet through that /19, and then sue everyone on the list they get.
So screwing over the customers of such an ISP is?
Let's offer a hypothetical situation. Let's assume the RIAA found out that someone from a certain
That's about what SPEWS is doing. They don't care about stopping spam while letting legitimate e-mail through. To them, ALL e-mail from a so-called "spam-friendly ISP" (which could mean anything from an ISP that activately recruits spammers to simply one that doesn't kick spammers off fast enough for some power-drunk netadmin in Bumfuck, TX) is spam. Don't like it? Find a different ISP!
Why should we support SPEWS when they do this, but hate the RIAA when they do it?
>> Isn't the prevailing opinion that MS is bankrolling this whole debacle to discredit Linux
Dude, you're paranoid.
Now if you'll excuse me, the black helicopters are coming to steal my brainwaves again. Let's hope this tinfoil hat works...
I seriously doubt that even Microsoft can make the USENET spam problem worse than it already is.
I had to do that for Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights myself...luckily, the SafeDisc was later removed.
Most games I buy nowdays, I never touch the CD...I pay the cash, download an ISO, install the crack, and usually get better performance in the bargain.
And the companies wonder why they're losing money.
No, this is more like "Commence primary ignition" than anything else.
lol manbabies
Incorrect.
Filters are a form of censorship, which is authoritarian in nature. This exists both as left-authoritarian (commonly viewed as communism), and right-authoritarian (commonly viewed as fascism or Nazism).
In addition to ARK, FunCom has an AO program called "The Professionals", where they choose two of the most well-known players of each class (usually the most helpful and knowledgeable) and ask them for input on how to balance the various classes.
I'm impressed by how much effort FunCom puts into Anarchy Online's CS personally...it's actually a lot better than most MMOGs I've played. *cough*"I cannot help thee with that."*cough*
Like I've argued before, no technology can be considered entirely good or entirely evil. Only the way it is used can be.
There's a technology out there that, in the US alone, costs people trillions of dollars a year from damage to property, and kills hundreds of thousands of people yearly - against, just in the US. Should such a technology be banned?
If so, then let's head back to the Stone Age, because you just outlawed fire! Sure, it can be used to kill people, but it can also be used for numerous good deeds.
So it is with even Palladium. Will it be used for evil deeds? Almost certainly. Does that make it evil in and of itself? Of course not.
People are going to complain...people HAVE been complaining...about Static not being a point-and-click adventure game like the first TLJ. And there's a good reason for that, too -- that type of game has a long and glorious history in computer gaming. Monkey Island, Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle...heck, pretty much ANYTHING LucasArts is famous for that doesn't involve lightsabers.
But at the same time, such complaints miss the point. The Longest Journey was good not because it was a point-and-click adventure game, but because of its story. It may not be Lord of the Rings, but anyone who didn't feel even slightly sad when Cortez died has no heart whatsoever.
Will Static play differently from Longest Journey? Duh. Will it be worse because of that? Not necessarily. To think it will be is to be too focused on the choice of chisels to see the sculpture being created.
>> I know DRM is evil and all...
DRM, AS IT SEEMS LIKELY TO BE APPLIED (lol M$ lol), is evil. DRM itself is not. It is a tool, and like any tool, can be used for good or evil. Would you call a screwdriver evil? Would you call a C++ compiler evil?
What you described would be a case where DRM can be used for good. Good for you...if we threw out any technology just because it could possibly be used for evil, we wouldn't even have fire, let alone the Internet.
Actually, only ONE year. Well, more like seven months.
According to Whois.sc, the domain name was registered in October 18, 1995. The Sex.Com trademark, however, was registered on May 20, 1996.
Slight difference there.
That's four negatives, so it works like a double negative. Click yes to disable DRM, click no to enable it.
(How sad it is that I actually counted those?)
Actually, that's just one of the two explainations for that.
Another was that Han Solo was bragging to "uneducated rubes", and was basically pulling stuff out of his ass. According to this hypothesis, the "bullshit bragging" claim is supported by Obi-Wan Kenobi's knowing grin - he wasn't fooled, but Luke was.
Yeah. I mean, unless you've got the Sabbat acting as PENTEX enforcers in exchange for a fresh cup of blood every week, you're not exactly going to see much of a war between vampires and werewolves.
You might see a vamp get his fanged butt kicked if he tries to feed on a homid, but other than that...
I bonked him oppositely by NOT bonking him.
Start singing.
I'd say it's less "big government" and more "Welcome to CorpWorld, today's special is three senators for a million dollars, Republican or Democrat!"