I suppose it would be possible to laser-write something individual on each stamped disk
Every GameCube disc and every Wii disc includes information laser-written into the Burst Cutting Area, as well as some extra pinholes in the lead-in. These are used to establish a decryption key.
Resold disks complicate matters
They have been complicating matters since the release of Half-Life 2, the first major PC game to require online activation.
Why do the Chipmunks wear "dresses"? Why does John from Peter Pan wear a "dress"? Why do many men in the Middle East wear "dresses"? Why did Jesus wear a "dress"? (source)
and gloves
To prevent blisters.
It's silly not to [make a work available to all markets] but it is your right.
In what way does this right to act like the dog in the manger "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
you're now not only taking away the rights of the rights holder in two ways instead of one
If I don't pirate, the publisher is leaving money on the table. If I do pirate, the publisher is leaving exactly the same amount of money on the table. It shows that the publisher doesn't believe in a "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."
Say you search for something using a generic web search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Google. Then you discover that the top three relevant results also disallow your access because they detect an ad blocker. Now you have wasted your time on three different sites, and you just want the web to work. Now what do you do?
Perhaps [online multiplayer and other services provided through PSN are] the reason why there's yet to be a break on the PS4 [...] I mean, seriously, the good games that are multiplayer are good because of the other players. That means you can play 10+ year old multiplayer games, become really good from all that play time, and really have little reason to move to "New PC games".
Ten years of online multiplayer on PlayStation? I must have missed some change over the past decade, because when I bought games for my PlayStation 2, I would take the disc out of the shrink wrap, put it in my PS2, and be greeted with a DNAS error saying the publisher had permanently shut down the matchmaking server.
Since I can't see PC games restricted to FIPS 140-2 Level 3 vid cards
All that means is that certain major-studio games will remain console exclusive, such as all but a handful of games by Nintendo and any game by the division of Sony that didn't become Daybreak.
Region coding. It took well over a decade for Mother to come to North America as Earthbound Beginnings and for Mother 2: Earthbound to come out in Europe. In the meantime, plenty of people pirated it. The world outside Japan still doesn't have Mother 3.
Also console exclusivity. It takes well over "a few hours" to buy a console just for one game, and people who wanted to play Earthbound Beginnings but did not already own a Wii U just pirated it.
The Oatmeal doesn't appear to give dates of first publication of its comics. The "Exposure" strip might have applied before the Street Performer Protocol was widely implemented. Nowadays I guess exposure pays when the developer's next project reaches its Kickstarter goal with room to spare. So, saying exposure is worthless is like saying education is worthless, just because it doesn't pay for life's necessities over a week's term.
You just have to be willing to pass on new releases
But not so long that the publisher turns off its matchmaking servers. This goes double for things like FIFA, where the vast majority of players have moved to this year's edition with this year's rosters.
But there are two ways around ClarityRay: either block access to the servers that serve these scripts or block the browser from executing any scripts. Sites are unlikely to hide text from no-script users because that also hides text from search engines.
"Sorry, this Seller doesn’t deliver to the United States" "Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)"
I wonder why video game developers haven't resorted to traitor tracing by distributed copies of the program with the subroutines and variables in different orders for each copy. In early 2010, I did a little experiment on a homebrew NES game I made called Concentration Room. I added a preprocessor that would randomize the order of variable declarations between lines and subroutine definitions within a file. Even with an executable on the order of 16 KiB, I was able to theoretically generate more unique, identically functioning copies than the number of atoms in the universe. Squared.
Go fuck yourself and actually buy the stuff you use.
Tell me a site where U.S. residents can buy lawfully made DVD copies of the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, and the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, and I'll do my best to stop pirating.
Say a video game developer wants to "join the open-source movement" as you suggested. Traditional means of funding development of free software don't apply quite as well to video games. Distributing the software as free software and selling related services works only for an MMO, and not all games are MMO. Making software available for others to improve in hopes that they'll offer further improvements upstream works for libraries but not as much for software intended for non-technical home users.
open-source games. Some of these are clones of older commercial games, but way better. Once a game gets cloned, it keeps getting improved beyond the original.
I believe that everyone should pay for the content that is consumed be it a game, video, music, digital book, etc.
Then who should pay when works are forced on me, such as a roommate blaring the TV or a store playing popular music? And who should pay when William Shakespeare's plays are performed?
and they prevent creations from becoming part of the public domain when abandoned
Copyright term extension does a fine job of that by itself, thank you very much.
If companies want to glorify pirates, then let's all pirate Sid Meier's Pirates, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and One Piece.
Without digital restrictions management, what's to keep people from casually infringing copyright in a video game? Should video game publishers instead follow the RIAA tactic of speculatively invoicing alleged infringers?
Or do you mean many people abstain from the video game market altogether over DRM?
They keep your private parts in place and warm under your shirt.
Now to others interested in your original question: You can short a stock by borrowing shares from someone else and selling them. To set up a short position, you'll likely need to upgrade your brokerage account to a tier allowing short selling, and you'll need to keep a lot of margin in that account that can be liquidated in case the stock pays dividends or its price rises. The process is described Wikipedia and Personal Finance Stack Exchange.
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Please see my reply to Half-pint HAL's comment.
Writable disks are more expensive than stamped disks
I addressed that in my reply to Anonymous Coward.
I suppose it would be possible to laser-write something individual on each stamped disk
Every GameCube disc and every Wii disc includes information laser-written into the Burst Cutting Area, as well as some extra pinholes in the lead-in. These are used to establish a decryption key.
Resold disks complicate matters
They have been complicating matters since the release of Half-Life 2, the first major PC game to require online activation.
Also, why are you wearing a dress
Why do the Chipmunks wear "dresses"? Why does John from Peter Pan wear a "dress"? Why do many men in the Middle East wear "dresses"? Why did Jesus wear a "dress"? (source)
and gloves
To prevent blisters.
It's silly not to [make a work available to all markets] but it is your right.
In what way does this right to act like the dog in the manger "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
you're now not only taking away the rights of the rights holder in two ways instead of one
If I don't pirate, the publisher is leaving money on the table. If I do pirate, the publisher is leaving exactly the same amount of money on the table. It shows that the publisher doesn't believe in a "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."
NEXT!
Say you search for something using a generic web search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Google. Then you discover that the top three relevant results also disallow your access because they detect an ad blocker. Now you have wasted your time on three different sites, and you just want the web to work. Now what do you do?
Which sites? And do they remain blank if you also turn off CSS?
I know this might come as a shock to you but, yes. I go outside and I even "play" outside.
I'l let a headline answer that: Mom lets kid play outside, faces jail. "Stranger danger" hysteria has taken over.
Perhaps [online multiplayer and other services provided through PSN are] the reason why there's yet to be a break on the PS4 [...] I mean, seriously, the good games that are multiplayer are good because of the other players. That means you can play 10+ year old multiplayer games, become really good from all that play time, and really have little reason to move to "New PC games".
Ten years of online multiplayer on PlayStation? I must have missed some change over the past decade, because when I bought games for my PlayStation 2, I would take the disc out of the shrink wrap, put it in my PS2, and be greeted with a DNAS error saying the publisher had permanently shut down the matchmaking server.
Since I can't see PC games restricted to FIPS 140-2 Level 3 vid cards
All that means is that certain major-studio games will remain console exclusive, such as all but a handful of games by Nintendo and any game by the division of Sony that didn't become Daybreak.
Get a job
Child labor laws.
work for a few hours and buy it then.
Region coding. It took well over a decade for Mother to come to North America as Earthbound Beginnings and for Mother 2: Earthbound to come out in Europe. In the meantime, plenty of people pirated it. The world outside Japan still doesn't have Mother 3.
Also console exclusivity. It takes well over "a few hours" to buy a console just for one game, and people who wanted to play Earthbound Beginnings but did not already own a Wii U just pirated it.
From "The pirate in me":
That sounds disturbingly like the present trend of microtransactions. Further:
Except that's how it ended up going. PlayStation bought up both Gaikai and OnLive.
The Oatmeal doesn't appear to give dates of first publication of its comics. The "Exposure" strip might have applied before the Street Performer Protocol was widely implemented. Nowadays I guess exposure pays when the developer's next project reaches its Kickstarter goal with room to spare. So, saying exposure is worthless is like saying education is worthless, just because it doesn't pay for life's necessities over a week's term.
It did when a video game was still in arcades. Now it does when a game is in a "timed exclusive" on some console, or not released in your country...
You just have to be willing to pass on new releases
But not so long that the publisher turns off its matchmaking servers. This goes double for things like FIFA, where the vast majority of players have moved to this year's edition with this year's rosters.
Services such as ClarityRay defeat your blocking.
But there are two ways around ClarityRay: either block access to the servers that serve these scripts or block the browser from executing any scripts. Sites are unlikely to hide text from no-script users because that also hides text from search engines.
And if you only traitor-trace online copies, then the pirates will get an offline copy from a physical shop and just distribute that instead.
Then include only the installer and non-executable portions on the disc, and push the actual game out as a day one patch.
lawfully made DVD copies
http://classicmoviereel.com/so...
[...]
http://8store.8thman.com/belle...
There are lots of bootlegs floating around. What evidence do you have that that DVD is lawfully made?
site where U.S. residents can buy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinocc...
"Sorry, this Seller doesn’t deliver to the United States"
"Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)"
I wonder why video game developers haven't resorted to traitor tracing by distributed copies of the program with the subroutines and variables in different orders for each copy. In early 2010, I did a little experiment on a homebrew NES game I made called Concentration Room. I added a preprocessor that would randomize the order of variable declarations between lines and subroutine definitions within a file. Even with an executable on the order of 16 KiB, I was able to theoretically generate more unique, identically functioning copies than the number of atoms in the universe. Squared.
Go fuck yourself and actually buy the stuff you use.
Tell me a site where U.S. residents can buy lawfully made DVD copies of the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, and the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, and I'll do my best to stop pirating.
Doesn't the Street Performer Protocol, as implemented by services such as Kickstarter, solve free rider? No pledges, no game.
Say a video game developer wants to "join the open-source movement" as you suggested. Traditional means of funding development of free software don't apply quite as well to video games. Distributing the software as free software and selling related services works only for an MMO, and not all games are MMO. Making software available for others to improve in hopes that they'll offer further improvements upstream works for libraries but not as much for software intended for non-technical home users.
open-source games. Some of these are clones of older commercial games, but way better. Once a game gets cloned, it keeps getting improved beyond the original.
Unless the game's developer uses copyright to shut down clones.
I believe that everyone should pay for the content that is consumed be it a game, video, music, digital book, etc.
Then who should pay when works are forced on me, such as a roommate blaring the TV or a store playing popular music? And who should pay when William Shakespeare's plays are performed?
and they prevent creations from becoming part of the public domain when abandoned
Copyright term extension does a fine job of that by itself, thank you very much.
If companies want to glorify pirates, then let's all pirate Sid Meier's Pirates, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and One Piece.
Without digital restrictions management, what's to keep people from casually infringing copyright in a video game? Should video game publishers instead follow the RIAA tactic of speculatively invoicing alleged infringers?
Or do you mean many people abstain from the video game market altogether over DRM?
How do shorts work?
They keep your private parts in place and warm under your shirt.
Now to others interested in your original question: You can short a stock by borrowing shares from someone else and selling them. To set up a short position, you'll likely need to upgrade your brokerage account to a tier allowing short selling, and you'll need to keep a lot of margin in that account that can be liquidated in case the stock pays dividends or its price rises. The process is described Wikipedia and Personal Finance Stack Exchange.
Short sales of real estate are unrelated, being more similar to foreclosure of an underwater property.
You can program your own work-alike of the game playable on PC. In some cases, that's still copying.