Or they could do some research and see what thye can do to prevent this from happeneing next time (not that I am a fan of the copy protection).....it is kind of sad how much of a knee-jerk and predictable reaction suing has become.
As Gandalf said, "The pieces are moving...", and there is nothing that can stop them.
It will be interesting to see where all of thsi goes...the RIAA making music sharers into Robin Hoods', one senator (Hatch) saying that mp3 sharing is eqaul to shoplifting, and this guy saying he wants to limit the DMCA.
It will be very interesting to the next move made by the RIAA. Their whole 'shock and awe' campaign seems not to have rocked the boat much.
It has been said, but I will repeat it...when the 'average' person believes mp3 trading/sharing to be legal/moral/whatever, then the RIAA can threaten up the wazoo with minimal results.
At my school, a recent poll showed that well over the majority of students felt that mp3 sharing was 'ok to do' even though a much smaller percentage actually participated in the filesharing.
Seems to me, all the RIAA has done thus far is made itself look like the big, bad, wolf to the non-geek person.
Here at my school, for the last week, starting about a day before freshman move in, they have had flyers *everyewhere* telling people not to hook up the network until they install this patch provided by the IT dept.
Of course, there are still the bozo's that don't pay heed to the warnings....but there are lots of them in the world anyways.
I am in.
Sometimes I just need to load up a quick game where I can blast anything that moves; and other times I want a game with a bit more depth.
I think the industry defenitely has both genres right now...so I fail to see what he is really griping about.
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Or they could do some research and see what thye can do to prevent this from happeneing next time (not that I am a fan of the copy protection).....it is kind of sad how much of a knee-jerk and predictable reaction suing has become.
Nothing like a good joke to start out my day:
"The servers are updated with fairly current Windows patches, so this is not necessarily an easy task."
hahahahahah
Could it be the knife going through the space-where-there-should-be-a-heart of SCO's legal case?
/. will seem like it is missing something without the daily SCO story.
Music to my ears, although
As Gandalf said, "The pieces are moving...", and there is nothing that can stop them.
It will be interesting to see where all of thsi goes...the RIAA making music sharers into Robin Hoods', one senator (Hatch) saying that mp3 sharing is eqaul to shoplifting, and this guy saying he wants to limit the DMCA.
Interesting times ahead....
It will be very interesting to the next move made by the RIAA. Their whole 'shock and awe' campaign seems not to have rocked the boat much.
It has been said, but I will repeat it...when the 'average' person believes mp3 trading/sharing to be legal/moral/whatever, then the RIAA can threaten up the wazoo with minimal results.
At my school, a recent poll showed that well over the majority of students felt that mp3 sharing was 'ok to do' even though a much smaller percentage actually participated in the filesharing.
Seems to me, all the RIAA has done thus far is made itself look like the big, bad, wolf to the non-geek person.
Maybe I am just cynical, but how can China really be embracing OSS when they are the ones with the infamouse 'great firewall'?
In my opinion, they would simply make it so that they (the govt.) are the only ones who handle security etc, so no outside info can get in.
Here at my school, for the last week, starting about a day before freshman move in, they have had flyers *everyewhere* telling people not to hook up the network until they install this patch provided by the IT dept. Of course, there are still the bozo's that don't pay heed to the warnings....but there are lots of them in the world anyways.
I am in. Sometimes I just need to load up a quick game where I can blast anything that moves; and other times I want a game with a bit more depth. I think the industry defenitely has both genres right now...so I fail to see what he is really griping about.