"because the intellectual property rights owner notified us, under penalty of perjury, that your listing or the item itself infringes their copyright, trademark, or other rights."
It's a fucking blanket email that gets sent out when someone hit's a button! This is not a personalized email written just for Joe user.
Not likely. One reason they probably picked Canada was because we have a pretty high % of homes with DSL/Cable. Sure it's no Korea, but I don't know too many people here that still use dialup.
Blizzards EULA states that everything in game is their property (Items/Coins/Characters) and users are not authorized to tranfser Blizzard's property in exchange for real money.
I think Blizzard probably could win a court case based on someone else making money reselling what does not belong to them.
The "selling my time" argument wouldn't really hold up either. It's like me saying "When I sold company X information from company B's database they were paying me for my time. Oh um no Company B didn't say it was ok for me to do that - actually they told me I couldn't do just that in a legal agreement I had to accept before I could access the database."
ebay, IGE, etc have trashed other MMORPG economies. There isn't any way to get it all. Most (I'm speaking from my experience with FFXI) won't do anything or very little to stop it because they don't want to lose a paying customer.
All Blizzard needs to do(and I hope they do): -Sue a couple people ebaying money/items/characters. -Kick about 200 or so accounts for trying to buy/sell to IGE. -Threaten IGE with legal action and ask for a list of their customers/dealers (ban those accounts too).
This will put enough fear in your average player to being things to an acceptable level.
Oh, before anyone tries to say this is what the RIAA is doing - it's not. It might be if RIAA suing people for downloading an MP3, selling it to a web company, then sold to someone else marked up by 80%.
It might cost Blizzard some lawyer money and less in monthly reviews in the short term. In the long term they won't need to worry about players waiting for a new MMORPG with a fresh economy, and lack of high level ebay fuck-tards.
oh and before the spelling police come out of the wood work with their ever helpful comments. I was typing fast and angry. I know I should have typed "there is" not "their is":P
RTFA. This was a camera setup to monitor cloud movements. The streak and the flash aren't in any of the other photos:P Seriously their is text below the pretty picture.
Yeah I get what you are saying. I was just trying to put it in a funny way to try to whore karma. ^^
Too many take a work that has been edited by men, and translated so many times literially. It's the ideas that are the important part. If people went by those few religions or even people would have a problem with each other.
Warning I did not RTFA.. I might later but honestly I stopped giving a crap about reviews years ago, same with movie reviews.
Games like movies are a matter of personal choice. God some of the movies and games I have loved the most have been slammed by reviews and won awards for being among the "worse".
Every reviewer will be biased based on their own preferences, tack on some nostalgia related to the old games they loved then given a rating based on what they like - not what I like. Worse than that is the problem (and I do believe it to be a problem) of reviewers catering to game companies to get favors like early review copies, and various free crap.
I rent games, read the manuals online and look at screenshots and make my own opinions.
Yes the home grown stuff on the web is definately getting popular.. so popular in fact they are putting out DVDs and joining the main stream porn industry.
However that aside mainstream porn is a billion dollar a year business (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/ 21/60minut es/main585049.shtml) and has lots of political and corporate clout.
Although I can't confirm it I've been told one large factor in VHS winning out over Betamax was the porn backing VHS.
or at least the monkey poo fight we will see in the next few years. Anyone know which one the porn industry is backing? I'll put my money on that format.
Simple.. if they are going to saturate the market with PSPs - which is what they need to do to beat Nintendo on their turf.
It's a new market for Sony and they need to get their foot in the door. I'm sure they look at it as an investment not a loss - the loss part comes if noone buys it and they can't recoup their inital loss on game/accessory sales over the next 4 years.
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"because the intellectual property rights owner notified us, under penalty of perjury, that your listing or the item itself infringes their copyright, trademark, or other rights."
It's a fucking blanket email that gets sent out when someone hit's a button! This is not a personalized email written just for Joe user.
Not likely. One reason they probably picked Canada was because we have a pretty high % of homes with DSL/Cable. Sure it's no Korea, but I don't know too many people here that still use dialup.
All your items are belong to Blizzard. Anyone who has WoW items for sale had to accept the EULA that states everything in game is their property.
Blizzards EULA states that everything in game is their property (Items/Coins/Characters) and users are not authorized to tranfser Blizzard's property in exchange for real money.
I think Blizzard probably could win a court case based on someone else making money reselling what does not belong to them.
The "selling my time" argument wouldn't really hold up either. It's like me saying "When I sold company X information from company B's database they were paying me for my time. Oh um no Company B didn't say it was ok for me to do that - actually they told me I couldn't do just that in a legal agreement I had to accept before I could access the database."
ebay, IGE, etc have trashed other MMORPG economies. There isn't any way to get it all. Most (I'm speaking from my experience with FFXI) won't do anything or very little to stop it because they don't want to lose a paying customer.
All Blizzard needs to do(and I hope they do):
-Sue a couple people ebaying money/items/characters.
-Kick about 200 or so accounts for trying to buy/sell to IGE.
-Threaten IGE with legal action and ask for a list of their customers/dealers (ban those accounts too).
This will put enough fear in your average player to being things to an acceptable level.
Oh, before anyone tries to say this is what the RIAA is doing - it's not. It might be if RIAA suing people for downloading an MP3, selling it to a web company, then sold to someone else marked up by 80%.
It might cost Blizzard some lawyer money and less in monthly reviews in the short term. In the long term they won't need to worry about players waiting for a new MMORPG with a fresh economy, and lack of high level ebay fuck-tards.
*please see subject*
Status set to "Away (Getting a paternity test done.. bbl)"
oh and before the spelling police come out of the wood work with their ever helpful comments. I was typing fast and angry. I know I should have typed "there is" not "their is" :P
RTFA. This was a camera setup to monitor cloud movements. The streak and the flash aren't in any of the other photos :P Seriously their is text below the pretty picture.
"AFTER I married her" - I bet that came with one heck of a EULA.
But girlfriends are so expensive! serves you right for being an early adopter of this new technology.
Yeah I get what you are saying. I was just trying to put it in a funny way to try to whore karma. ^^
Too many take a work that has been edited by men, and translated so many times literially. It's the ideas that are the important part. If people went by those few religions or even people would have a problem with each other.
So it's kind of like spending 900 pasos(sp?) in the UK.
"Once this program goes public, its potential is enormous." - As is the potential for lawsuits.
From the article: "If it adopts the plan, Nintendo would become the first video game company to establish a theatrical film production unit."
Umm no I believe the first company was SquareSoft (now Square-Enix)
"human error and electronic glitches" - or just reduce the change of the errors being detected?
Warning I did not RTFA.. I might later but honestly I stopped giving a crap about reviews years ago, same with movie reviews.
Games like movies are a matter of personal choice. God some of the movies and games I have loved the most have been slammed by reviews and won awards for being among the "worse".
Every reviewer will be biased based on their own preferences, tack on some nostalgia related to the old games they loved then given a rating based on what they like - not what I like. Worse than that is the problem (and I do believe it to be a problem) of reviewers catering to game companies to get favors like early review copies, and various free crap.
I rent games, read the manuals online and look at screenshots and make my own opinions.
you don't put porn site addys on the educational material: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=130592&cid=108 98026
RTFM and look at the other pictures. It's not a shuttle with wings - it just happens to have a similar nose on it is all.
No one ever get's my joke's!
Yes the home grown stuff on the web is definately getting popular.. so popular in fact they are putting out DVDs and joining the main stream porn industry.
/ 21/60minut es/main585049.shtml)
However that aside mainstream porn is a billion dollar a year business
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11
and has lots of political and corporate clout.
Although I can't confirm it I've been told one large factor in VHS winning out over Betamax was the porn backing VHS.
or at least the monkey poo fight we will see in the next few years. Anyone know which one the porn industry is backing? I'll put my money on that format.
if they thought stem cell's would result in someone who was paralyzed walking again, and how soon it would happen.
"downloading the patches" - They do.. it's call the Blizzard Updater
Simple.. if they are going to saturate the market with PSPs - which is what they need to do to beat Nintendo on their turf.
It's a new market for Sony and they need to get their foot in the door. I'm sure they look at it as an investment not a loss - the loss part comes if noone buys it and they can't recoup their inital loss on game/accessory sales over the next 4 years.