The blocking of material should be decided on a legal / illegal basis. Blocking a subset of legal material will, you would hope, violate some trade regulation. The law-abiding producers of legal pornography have as much right to do business, without government interference, as the charity shop selling home-made cakes.
Nothing says success like jettisoning every non-essential part of your portfolio and abandoning your greatest assets -- staff -- a week before Christmas.
It should be noted that the "maybe use a drone or something" quote is from a _former_ adviser to the Canadian prime minister, so someone whose role in politics is minimal and historical. Also note that the article you linked to was from the 1st of December, before Assange was taken in to custody.
"Two of the cases were found in default as the defendants had failed to respond, but not on the merits of ACS:Law's case."
So a lesson for us all there. If some random law firm threatens to sue you for something you haven't done, apparently you MUST respond or you're guilty.
Trademark and copyright disputes between two rights holders should be resolved in a court room, not in a letter from one rights holder to a third party.
I say "rights holder" because the owner of Pac Man holds the rights to that game, and the owner of Super Pac holds the right to that game. The issue here is that the Pac Man rights holder claims that the Super Pac rights holder cannot lawfully distribute his product, and Google (private company, not a judge) has no business deciding on the validity of that claim.
I understand that Google has acted to protect itself from being sued for hosting material that violates someone's rights. But to pull Super Pac without discussion or reasonable recourse is simply too close to Apple behaviour for me to be comfortable with.
The web will continue to be controlled by the same people that have always controlled it -- us, the users. If a minority interest such as a company or government manages to exert unwanted influence on the web, whether that be a proprietary standard or unpopular laws, then the greater community will simply migrate the web to a new form.
They've already done it without legal backing. The US-hosted, UK-centric police monitoring site FitWatch was closed by the British police, by simply asking the US host to remove it. The police officially objected to a single article, so requested that the whole site be closed for 12 months. The host complied.
Oh how I hate dishonesty. I believe that the people behind this magazine published the article with the sole intention of pointing their readers to other sources of pirated material. Now when challenged, they play coy. Cowards. They should at least defend their action for what it was, rather than tucking their tails between their legs and pleading innocence. Journalists have died to defend the freedom of the press, and now these charlatans abuse that freedom by hiding their duplicitous actions behind the good name of journalism.
Third-party satnavs cost around £100. That's for hardware and software. This car already has the hardware built-in. They're charging £1,400 for the software and possibly an antenna.
"Auto dealers are selling infotainment systems at a nice fat profit"
You're not kidding. My girlfriend was test-driving a car last week and I asked the dealer how much it would cost to get the satnav option, Keep in mind that the screen is already there (used for the radio and air-conditioning controls) so we're talking about a software switch and possibly some kind of additional antenna. Price? £1,400. Hey Mr Rip-Off Car Dealer, you can: Go. To. Hell.
I've looked at Tenebrae a few times over the years and was never all that impressed with it. Seemed to prioritise graphics effects over the actual game. I need to revisit it though, it has been a while.
Somehow I hadn't heard of Darkplaces and it does look great. Ah I love that screenshot of the Wizard's Manse! Such fond memories of 1-on-1 deathmatching with my flatmate on that level.
I'd love to see remakes of Jedi Knight and (especially) Quake. A remake of Quake with all the same levels, monsters and gameplay, but with just the rendering quality updated, would be my perfect game. Also I really liked Kingpin, although I'm not so sure it needs remade. Can't really explain why, I just have a feeling that it works best as a fond memory.
As a news photographer, who naturally believes that pictures are very important in news coverage, it blows my mind that a story about a new imaging technique would run without one single illustration.
"the framerate in that ME2 video is shockingly bad"
Perhaps not. Look again at the first few seconds of the video and you'll notice that the mouse pointer is jumpy, which suggests that it's the framerate of the video that is low. May be the recording, may be the YouTube playback. Of course this doesn't prove that the game streaming _isn't_ poor framerate, but certainly doesn't show that it is.
Slashdot Mirror
Most pornography is legal.
The blocking of material should be decided on a legal / illegal basis. Blocking a subset of legal material will, you would hope, violate some trade regulation. The law-abiding producers of legal pornography have as much right to do business, without government interference, as the charity shop selling home-made cakes.
"our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities ... inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments"
Shut up. You're a bank. Just move people's money around for them and don't try to have an opinion.
Nothing says success like jettisoning every non-essential part of your portfolio and abandoning your greatest assets -- staff -- a week before Christmas.
It should be noted that the "maybe use a drone or something" quote is from a _former_ adviser to the Canadian prime minister, so someone whose role in politics is minimal and historical. Also note that the article you linked to was from the 1st of December, before Assange was taken in to custody.
"Two of the cases were found in default as the defendants had failed to respond, but not on the merits of ACS:Law's case."
So a lesson for us all there. If some random law firm threatens to sue you for something you haven't done, apparently you MUST respond or you're guilty.
The riot is the rhyme of the unheard?
I should sue the maker of Leisure Suit Larry.
"I would like to verify myself"
Euphamism?
"it's probably best to just pick the ball up and go home, imho"
While hundreds of other Pac Man clones continue to chomp their little pills, untroubled by DMCA claims.
Trademark and copyright disputes between two rights holders should be resolved in a court room, not in a letter from one rights holder to a third party.
I say "rights holder" because the owner of Pac Man holds the rights to that game, and the owner of Super Pac holds the right to that game. The issue here is that the Pac Man rights holder claims that the Super Pac rights holder cannot lawfully distribute his product, and Google (private company, not a judge) has no business deciding on the validity of that claim.
I understand that Google has acted to protect itself from being sued for hosting material that violates someone's rights. But to pull Super Pac without discussion or reasonable recourse is simply too close to Apple behaviour for me to be comfortable with.
"are the MS astroturfers out in force?"
Good question.
The web will continue to be controlled by the same people that have always controlled it -- us, the users. If a minority interest such as a company or government manages to exert unwanted influence on the web, whether that be a proprietary standard or unpopular laws, then the greater community will simply migrate the web to a new form.
They've already done it without legal backing. The US-hosted, UK-centric police monitoring site FitWatch was closed by the British police, by simply asking the US host to remove it. The police officially objected to a single article, so requested that the whole site be closed for 12 months. The host complied.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/student-anti-police-website-closed
Guessed I'd be -1 trolled to oblivion but so be it!
Oh how I hate dishonesty. I believe that the people behind this magazine published the article with the sole intention of pointing their readers to other sources of pirated material. Now when challenged, they play coy. Cowards. They should at least defend their action for what it was, rather than tucking their tails between their legs and pleading innocence. Journalists have died to defend the freedom of the press, and now these charlatans abuse that freedom by hiding their duplicitous actions behind the good name of journalism.
Third-party satnavs cost around £100. That's for hardware and software. This car already has the hardware built-in. They're charging £1,400 for the software and possibly an antenna.
"Auto dealers are selling infotainment systems at a nice fat profit"
You're not kidding. My girlfriend was test-driving a car last week and I asked the dealer how much it would cost to get the satnav option, Keep in mind that the screen is already there (used for the radio and air-conditioning controls) so we're talking about a software switch and possibly some kind of additional antenna. Price? £1,400. Hey Mr Rip-Off Car Dealer, you can: Go. To. Hell.
"five to six years in prison and a $150,000 fine"
Can you imagine how awfully unbalanced it would seem if people got lesser sentences for causing death by dangerous driving?
I've looked at Tenebrae a few times over the years and was never all that impressed with it. Seemed to prioritise graphics effects over the actual game. I need to revisit it though, it has been a while.
Somehow I hadn't heard of Darkplaces and it does look great. Ah I love that screenshot of the Wizard's Manse! Such fond memories of 1-on-1 deathmatching with my flatmate on that level.
I'd love to see remakes of Jedi Knight and (especially) Quake. A remake of Quake with all the same levels, monsters and gameplay, but with just the rendering quality updated, would be my perfect game. Also I really liked Kingpin, although I'm not so sure it needs remade. Can't really explain why, I just have a feeling that it works best as a fond memory.
As a news photographer, who naturally believes that pictures are very important in news coverage, it blows my mind that a story about a new imaging technique would run without one single illustration.
"the framerate in that ME2 video is shockingly bad"
Perhaps not. Look again at the first few seconds of the video and you'll notice that the mouse pointer is jumpy, which suggests that it's the framerate of the video that is low. May be the recording, may be the YouTube playback. Of course this doesn't prove that the game streaming _isn't_ poor framerate, but certainly doesn't show that it is.
YouTube video now says:
"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Tribune."
Round of applause for Tribune, whoever they are. Thank you for your noble efforts. /sarcasm
nought or naught, both spellings are correct.
The entire threat posed by Apple comes to nought if people don't buy Apple products. I'm doing my bit.