The U in EULA stands for "user". The developer isn't bound by anything in the EULA, for that you'd need to get a ED(developer)LA. Good luck trying to get rights back to the people.
There was an article on/. a few weeks ago about a guy that successfully defended himself against the RIAA for infringing on selling live recordings. The judge rules in his favor, because under current copyright laws live recordings have no defined date that sticks them in the public domain. Counter to the Constitution.
I don't see how he can get away with "Firefox doesn't offer any features that IE doesn't." What about... oh... themes, extensions, and most importantly, tabbed browsing?
Sure you can reskin IE and get plug ins, but it's not nearly as easy as Firefox.
Perhaps in three years we'll have Mozzila SoundSiren, which will spark a lawsuit threat, so the name will be changed to PhonicPhoenix, which will cause ANOTHER lawsuit, making the offical product AcusticAvian.
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I don't think "Bite my shiny metal ass" would roll off the tounge so easily in Italian.
Not quite, "Taxation without Representation" is what citizens of the District of Columbia have. They pay federal income tax, but don't have any representation in Congress. Just like the original 13 colonies were taxed for everything, but had no voice in Parliment.
That Cars movie is probably geared toward kids because it'll be Pixar's last film done under their partnership with Disney. Disney is probably exacting creative control for the first and last time.
The vast majority of people that play violent video games don't commite violent crimes. That's the truth. It's proof positive that these people do this things for a number of reasons. Odds are they had a fucked up childhood, and bad parenting made these guys think that reality is just as ficticious as a video game. Maybe they had a mental disorder of somekind due to some screwed up genetics.
The fact that just about everybody on/. says that violent video games isn't peposterous at all, because less than one percent of the people that will read about this story and play video games are going to emulate the game in some fashion.
I don't think that's very fair. The RIAA is the true scumbag here, not the MPAA. If you want to see an album performed somewhere it'll cost a cool 40 bucks. A fourth of that price to see a DVD performed somewhere. Buying a movie that costs 25 million to make only costs 20 bucks, but a CD that costs a huge fraction less than that, costs the same amount, not to mention most CDs have at most 60 minutes of music, DVDs with their special features, and movie, can easily push the three hour barrier.
(The Electoral College) certainly keeps the tension up until the bitter end...
And with this brilliant winner-take-all system in place it means that someone can lose... and still win! Just like four years ago... Yeah, what a good idea, let's invalidate the votes.
Are you so naive to believe that the government wouldn't store additional data with your D.N.A. chain? They'd just keep a file of A's T's C's and G's without assigning a person's SSN or name, or both to it?
That bit about buying the game is why I've never really gotten very deep into SoE's MMO games. I beta tested Neocron, but my computer couldn't handle the game at the time. By the time I was able to handle it they had started to offer a free 3 day trial of the full game, and if you liked the game after the trial, they let you just start paying the monthly fee and get right in. The only disadvantage is that I didn't get a free month with it, but that's better than dropping 30 bucks.
I tried the SWG trial, but they wouldn't let me do that. I was also part of the Planetside beta, but again, lack of tough enough hardware prevented me from signing up right there. Eventually I decided to play it, so I found the game on eBay for 10 bucks. The free month that's included was worth that. If Galaxies were a fun game, and its monthly fee was less than 15 bucks I'd grab a copy from eBay.
It's a new method of advertisement these cretons have come up with. With cross-platform releases they don't want to put numbers in the titles for the game, for fear of scaring off potential customers that havn't played the other games in that series. Prime example, two games running the same engine that did that. Deus Ex: "Invisible War" (2) and Thief: "The Dark Project" (3). Both were released on the Xbox, but the previous titles in the respective series had been. The same is true of Hitman: "Contracts" 3, and the Prince of Persia game last year, and the next one that's coming up this year, or next year.
No kidding, back then games didn't even NEED graphics. We had sixteen colors of ASCII and it was just as fun as some of the stuff that had sprites, and all that hubub.
From the article "We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies"
It actully gave me chills. Is the political system of the United States in such a state to be repaired back to the intentions set forth in the Constitution?
Damn right, and I proudly drink tap water. Why? Because my tax money already goes toward making it drinkable. Keep your bottled water, I'll stick with the stuff that's 1/1000th the price.
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The U in EULA stands for "user". The developer isn't bound by anything in the EULA, for that you'd need to get a ED(developer)LA. Good luck trying to get rights back to the people.
There was an article on /. a few weeks ago about a guy that successfully defended himself against the RIAA for infringing on selling live recordings. The judge rules in his favor, because under current copyright laws live recordings have no defined date that sticks them in the public domain. Counter to the Constitution.
I don't see how he can get away with "Firefox doesn't offer any features that IE doesn't." What about... oh... themes, extensions, and most importantly, tabbed browsing?
Sure you can reskin IE and get plug ins, but it's not nearly as easy as Firefox.
That's not really a speed record, considering the space shuttle hits, what, around 22,000 miles per hour?
Perhaps in three years we'll have Mozzila SoundSiren, which will spark a lawsuit threat, so the name will be changed to PhonicPhoenix, which will cause ANOTHER lawsuit, making the offical product AcusticAvian.
I don't think "Bite my shiny metal ass" would roll off the tounge so easily in Italian.
Not quite, "Taxation without Representation" is what citizens of the District of Columbia have. They pay federal income tax, but don't have any representation in Congress. Just like the original 13 colonies were taxed for everything, but had no voice in Parliment.
That Cars movie is probably geared toward kids because it'll be Pixar's last film done under their partnership with Disney. Disney is probably exacting creative control for the first and last time.
Can your TI read punch-cards? I THINK NOT!
The vast majority of people that play violent video games don't commite violent crimes. That's the truth. It's proof positive that these people do this things for a number of reasons. Odds are they had a fucked up childhood, and bad parenting made these guys think that reality is just as ficticious as a video game. Maybe they had a mental disorder of somekind due to some screwed up genetics.
/. says that violent video games isn't peposterous at all, because less than one percent of the people that will read about this story and play video games are going to emulate the game in some fashion.
The fact that just about everybody on
I don't think that's very fair. The RIAA is the true scumbag here, not the MPAA. If you want to see an album performed somewhere it'll cost a cool 40 bucks. A fourth of that price to see a DVD performed somewhere. Buying a movie that costs 25 million to make only costs 20 bucks, but a CD that costs a huge fraction less than that, costs the same amount, not to mention most CDs have at most 60 minutes of music, DVDs with their special features, and movie, can easily push the three hour barrier.
(The Electoral College) certainly keeps the tension up until the bitter end...
And with this brilliant winner-take-all system in place it means that someone can lose... and still win! Just like four years ago... Yeah, what a good idea, let's invalidate the votes.
Are you so naive to believe that the government wouldn't store additional data with your D.N.A. chain? They'd just keep a file of A's T's C's and G's without assigning a person's SSN or name, or both to it?
I'm sure it allows for more than four people! HA!
the banks are quite likely to take it seriously, and do something. Most MS customers don't.
Just so we're clear, you're referring to switching to another OS, and not setting Bill Gates on fire, right?
That bit about buying the game is why I've never really gotten very deep into SoE's MMO games. I beta tested Neocron, but my computer couldn't handle the game at the time. By the time I was able to handle it they had started to offer a free 3 day trial of the full game, and if you liked the game after the trial, they let you just start paying the monthly fee and get right in. The only disadvantage is that I didn't get a free month with it, but that's better than dropping 30 bucks.
I tried the SWG trial, but they wouldn't let me do that. I was also part of the Planetside beta, but again, lack of tough enough hardware prevented me from signing up right there. Eventually I decided to play it, so I found the game on eBay for 10 bucks. The free month that's included was worth that. If Galaxies were a fun game, and its monthly fee was less than 15 bucks I'd grab a copy from eBay.
but he has some very legitimate points.
He only needs one point: The First Amendment.
It's a new method of advertisement these cretons have come up with. With cross-platform releases they don't want to put numbers in the titles for the game, for fear of scaring off potential customers that havn't played the other games in that series. Prime example, two games running the same engine that did that. Deus Ex: "Invisible War" (2) and Thief: "The Dark Project" (3). Both were released on the Xbox, but the previous titles in the respective series had been. The same is true of Hitman: "Contracts" 3, and the Prince of Persia game last year, and the next one that's coming up this year, or next year.
No kidding, back then games didn't even NEED graphics. We had sixteen colors of ASCII and it was just as fun as some of the stuff that had sprites, and all that hubub.
From the article "We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies"
It actully gave me chills. Is the political system of the United States in such a state to be repaired back to the intentions set forth in the Constitution?
*drooling* Final Fantasy 6 .... mmmmmm
Preach, brother!
Fear not! The Niblonians will save all of us!
Damn right, and I proudly drink tap water. Why? Because my tax money already goes toward making it drinkable. Keep your bottled water, I'll stick with the stuff that's 1/1000th the price.
All I know is that it's the perfect material for pants when you're getting a lap dance.
You can only violate the DMCA if you're a citizen of the United States or one of it's territories.