I am thinking, even if they rewired it, we'd just use point to point encryption and all they'd get is traffic info, not content.
I am thinking more a kerberos solution. Literal streaming encryption.
Even so, they know as well as any tech geeks do that its a smokescreen, a feel-good, a deliberate overextension so that when its denied, less extreme but still invasive suggestions look fine by comparison.
I am sitting here wondering why I would compromise my Hard Disk for an extra 200Gigs of space, I already have tons of free space I am not using, and really can't see any need to pull more space from them instead of just buying a new $80 drive.
I have gotten professional looking lables from Adhesives before, and so have a few of my art school friends. I am still down with saving money on not buying a new piece of tech that I feel I don't need and continuing using my $2 Sharpie for my CDs and a Label Maker for "professional" CDs.
As potentially useful as it would be to use one of these things for CD/DVD Labeling, I am awful fond of saving money and will continue just using a sharpie or an adhesive.
I don't need new tech and new burnable media to keep doing that.
Well you get into "Supposed to" and what EB actually does. This is unfortuante for the person whom the merch was stolen from.
I would be mad as hell if it were me that had merch stolen and sold to EB, and then re-sold to someone else. However, because they are a second-hand store they may be able to "Opt out" of the Pawn Shop laws.
Though, however I have been in an EB in the state that I live in, where I've seen a guy walk in with a copy of a game I was after - I turned and asked the EB guys if I could pick it up right then and there, and I walked out with the copy of the game.
EB isn't a pawn shop, I don't believe it is EB's policy to hold games for a certain amount of days before they can resell them.
Actually, I don't believe The Emperor's New Groove tanked, this was a non-pixar movie that was a rather funny film, also Lilo and Stitch did rather well for the Mouse.
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This is just public space, and a machine doing what a human could do - you've got no reasonable expectation of privacy in public space.
I am thinking more a kerberos solution. Literal streaming encryption.
Even so, they know as well as any tech geeks do that its a smokescreen, a feel-good, a deliberate overextension so that when its denied, less extreme but still invasive suggestions look fine by comparison.
I have gotten professional looking lables from Adhesives before, and so have a few of my art school friends. I am still down with saving money on not buying a new piece of tech that I feel I don't need and continuing using my $2 Sharpie for my CDs and a Label Maker for "professional" CDs.
I don't need new tech and new burnable media to keep doing that.
Well you get into "Supposed to" and what EB actually does. This is unfortuante for the person whom the merch was stolen from. I would be mad as hell if it were me that had merch stolen and sold to EB, and then re-sold to someone else. However, because they are a second-hand store they may be able to "Opt out" of the Pawn Shop laws.
Though, however I have been in an EB in the state that I live in, where I've seen a guy walk in with a copy of a game I was after - I turned and asked the EB guys if I could pick it up right then and there, and I walked out with the copy of the game. EB isn't a pawn shop, I don't believe it is EB's policy to hold games for a certain amount of days before they can resell them.
Actually, I don't believe The Emperor's New Groove tanked, this was a non-pixar movie that was a rather funny film, also Lilo and Stitch did rather well for the Mouse.