The real question seems to be, "What benefits would consumers see if they stopped buying counterfeit games?"
This is going to continue to be a problem untill consumers have a reason to stop doing it. If that means the industry dies, its unavoidable as far as I can see.
Likewise, enforcement will never ever reach majority level, and even then won't stop the problem. Online games w/ a key-challenge kind of deal, where signifigant portions of the game logic rely on the game server would fix the problem, but what happens if the server goes down? And is this giving too much control to the game company? Methinks so.
(scratches head) I dunno. There has to be a solution?
Airborne delivered two computer cases (probably same size/nearly same weight as your package) both addressed to the correct address, across the street to the wrong appartment building. When someone stole one of them, they stonewalled me about getting a refund and I ended up losing the case. So to sum it up, don't use Airborne, use UPS or Fedex and have a tracking number and pack it well. You can save on shipping if you pack it yourself and dont take it to a Mailboxes Etc...
I am very confused as to how it is legal to promise directly, or indirectly through expectations of what a device should do (IE SideKick), features, then remove them after users have paid a premium for these very features. What would happen if your new TV with built in TV-guide (that cost an extra 200 bux on top) had that feature removed for whatever reason? Technically, its legal, but its very disturbing.
See excerpt from last link:
"T-Mobile has announced that they are "no longer supporting" the video games they bundled with the color Sidekick. Normally, this would be pretty straightforward -- you could use 'em unsupported, you could find someone else to support 'em, whatever. But because the Sidekick is a phone first and a computing device second (not a technology decision, but rather a marketing/operations one), "no longer supported" has a much more sinister meaning: when T-Mobile withdraws its "support" of the games on the color Sidekick, it wil remotely erase the games from the color Sidekicks of all of their customers.
Hard to say why they're withdrawing the games. Some say that it's because they don't want to incur the ongoing licensing costs, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. The fact is that the Sidekick's promise has been sucked dry by T-Mobile's phone-company shenanigans. You may remember that earlier this year, the long-awaited, long-overdue SDK shipped, along with the news that only that code which had been approved by T-Mobile would be installable on any device.
They still haven't delivered a synch tool that lets you download your PIM data (calendar, contacts, to-do) from your Sidekick to your PC, and what's more, this latest move shows very clearly what you can expect to happen when you stop being a T-Mobile customer: they will "withdraw their support" from your handset, erasing your personal info."
Wow. Where to begin.
Your applying initial velocity and accelleration to the one ball, thats why it lands first. What does this have to do with the speed of gravity?!
Apple did a REALLY good job keeping this info under wraps untill really recently. 64 bit desktop, affordable, 1ghz memory bandwidth.... the price/performance is definetly there!
I know this has been asked before, but now I am serious, with SCOX trading around 10 a share, and the end being in sight, how, and why, would you short sell the stock?
I just bought a ReplayTV 5040 from SonicBlue.com with lifetime subscription w/ those features as selling points. When those features are removed, can I sue for false advertising?
Nothing good has come from commercial game sites that I have seen. Witness fileplanet et. al., charging money for the convienience of downloading promotional material for a game. I am anxiously waiting to be proven wrong, however.
"And the reason I believe that this has become a large issue is because linux people in the know recognize we have a STRONG position" -SCO Exec, teleconference
Dear BGS4:
I summarily inform you that you have violated the Intellectual Property rights of everyone who has made that joke over the past month. Gimme da cash.
~SCO
I'm listening to the conference call right now, and they just claimed that 1/3 of the total revenue for the next quarter would come from SCOsource (IE Suing people).
Great.
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This is going to continue to be a problem untill consumers have a reason to stop doing it. If that means the industry dies, its unavoidable as far as I can see.
Likewise, enforcement will never ever reach majority level, and even then won't stop the problem. Online games w/ a key-challenge kind of deal, where signifigant portions of the game logic rely on the game server would fix the problem, but what happens if the server goes down? And is this giving too much control to the game company? Methinks so.
(scratches head) I dunno. There has to be a solution?
Hey just because NASA has a tight budget doesn't mean you guys can use Slashdot for your R&D!!!
Yup, it was an appartment building on a college campus with 100+ kids living in it. Kinda hard to find out who stole it.
Airborne delivered two computer cases (probably same size/nearly same weight as your package) both addressed to the correct address, across the street to the wrong appartment building. When someone stole one of them, they stonewalled me about getting a refund and I ended up losing the case. So to sum it up, don't use Airborne, use UPS or Fedex and have a tracking number and pack it well. You can save on shipping if you pack it yourself and dont take it to a Mailboxes Etc...
Wow. Where to begin. Your applying initial velocity and accelleration to the one ball, thats why it lands first. What does this have to do with the speed of gravity?!
is right here! Seeing how you have all these browsers, run them against this suite, and see how they faire. Nothing like the fresh scent of google.
Apple did a REALLY good job keeping this info under wraps untill really recently. 64 bit desktop, affordable, 1ghz memory bandwidth.... the price/performance is definetly there!
quite an Assinine idea
I know this has been asked before, but now I am serious, with SCOX trading around 10 a share, and the end being in sight, how, and why, would you short sell the stock?
Actually, I'd rather they have a sense of humor
about five macs?
I just bought a ReplayTV 5040 from SonicBlue.com with lifetime subscription w/ those features as selling points. When those features are removed, can I sue for false advertising?
How did they mo-cap the scenes where Tommy picks up one of the fine ladies of Vice City in his car to .. erm .. restore his health?
Yes, its called OpenSourceania
Nothing good has come from commercial game sites that I have seen. Witness fileplanet et. al., charging money for the convienience of downloading promotional material for a game. I am anxiously waiting to be proven wrong, however.
A meaningless statistic or the (Government/Big Business/Your Boss) believing it?
Seems like this has been going on since the beginning
No comments, and the site won't load... I'd guess the staff at joystick101.com are going violently POSTAL right now ;)
Hi Mr Darl McBride, welcome to SlashDot
"And the reason I believe that this has become a large issue is because linux people in the know recognize we have a STRONG position" -SCO Exec, teleconference
Dear BGS4: I summarily inform you that you have violated the Intellectual Property rights of everyone who has made that joke over the past month. Gimme da cash. ~SCO
....and sink a shot at the same time, I'd be impressed.
Another bit from the SCO con call, an unknown company has also licensed the IP to Unix, what a sham now that it turns out they (SCO) don't own it!
I'm listening to the conference call right now, and they just claimed that 1/3 of the total revenue for the next quarter would come from SCOsource (IE Suing people). Great.