If you had read the No Electronic Theft law you would know that it only applies to copies of a work AND the total must be over $1000. That would certainly be an expensive box set! Supposed you uploaded to a share ratio of 2. At $150 for 5 seasons you are still horribly under the limit. That is also ignoring that it applies to/copies/ and not parts. One can easily have a share ratio > 5 and never have sent out a whole file.
The skipping commercials comment was that they are trying to get stuff like it passed, not an example of something that is already illegal... as my entire post is about the same.
EQEMu actually spawned from Ags by Agz, not EthernalQuest directly. Also, I know of no one from the emulating community that was hired -- they did hire someone from SEQ though. Also, the TFA is wrong about the number of players. WR peaked at about 380 players/concurrent/, but I do not have a good number of active accounts at the time we shut down.
True about not needing to patch, but the majority of emu players are likely to have played live in the past and purchased the game in a box or one of the pay-to-download expansions
While I did not personally attend the event, I have heard quite enough about it. The trader did not come from Egypt, but a foreign land. I've discussed this event way too much as it is though so I do not feel like going into it a length now.
BTW, you already killed our wiki
It seems that it is just that, a trackball. You just give it a spin with your hand apparently. I would certainly put my trust in something that looks as well put together as a 486 thrown in a cardboard box to be someone's router. Then again, the only pictures of the insides I found were from homeowners on eBay that had admittedly replaced things.
After reading both articles I am still somewhat confused. It seems that initially that the harddrives were not encrypted at all and were easy to hack. Then with the someware updates (that seem to be quite costly I might add) this was changed.
How is the interface designed? They keep refering to a trackball, which I assume records your swing somehow but it is lax on the details. I guess google and eBay might have some information. I wonder if they even encrypt the data down the line. Frankly I am not sure they can have a secure system. Even if you get rid of the home ownership, what about the bar's owner messing with it? The users control the client, and when there is money to be made people will try to cheat. Even Las Vegas has problems with people cheating their slot machines and they have a government agency and inspections.
Cox Cable (used to be @home) recently cut off one of their users that had a worm. It was one of the nice ones that sends out spam. They gave her a few days to fix the problem, or be disconnected. Funny thing is she did have NAV installed, someone just clicked 'leave alone' to the dialog when it came up. Ah, the joys of spending 2 hours cleaning up spyware, viruses, and gigs of pr0n of 'questionable' tastes that the wife did not know about.
IANAL(I know, it's shocking! Someone on slashdot that isn't a lawyer!) but wasn't timeshifting deemed fair-use by the courts? Thus doesn't the broadcast flag impair the viewer's fair-use rights?
(I didn't read the brief, I'm not a masochist.)
Worked fine for me in FireFox. I right clicked in the main frame, frame, show only this frame. Even worked when I copy/pasted it into a new tab before I made the comment.
Slashdot Mirror
It is a quote from a firefly episode, by Jayne.. the train job episode google says: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds.asp?id=107
If you had read the No Electronic Theft law you would know that it only applies to copies of a work AND the total must be over $1000. That would certainly be an expensive box set! Supposed you uploaded to a share ratio of 2. At $150 for 5 seasons you are still horribly under the limit. That is also ignoring that it applies to /copies/ and not parts. One can easily have a share ratio > 5 and never have sent out a whole file.
The skipping commercials comment was that they are trying to get stuff like it passed, not an example of something that is already illegal... as my entire post is about the same.
That is, until the MPAA and RIAA suceed on making it a federal felony offense, along with skiping commercials on TV and DVDs that you paid for. See http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62830,00 .html and more
EQEMu actually spawned from Ags by Agz, not EthernalQuest directly. Also, I know of no one from the emulating community that was hired -- they did hire someone from SEQ though. Also, the TFA is wrong about the number of players. WR peaked at about 380 players /concurrent/, but I do not have a good number of active accounts at the time we shut down.
True about not needing to patch, but the majority of emu players are likely to have played live in the past and purchased the game in a box or one of the pay-to-download expansions
While I did not personally attend the event, I have heard quite enough about it. The trader did not come from Egypt, but a foreign land. I've discussed this event way too much as it is though so I do not feel like going into it a length now. BTW, you already killed our wiki
It seems that it is just that, a trackball. You just give it a spin with your hand apparently. I would certainly put my trust in something that looks as well put together as a 486 thrown in a cardboard box to be someone's router. Then again, the only pictures of the insides I found were from homeowners on eBay that had admittedly replaced things.
After reading both articles I am still somewhat confused. It seems that initially that the harddrives were not encrypted at all and were easy to hack. Then with the someware updates (that seem to be quite costly I might add) this was changed.
How is the interface designed? They keep refering to a trackball, which I assume records your swing somehow but it is lax on the details. I guess google and eBay might have some information. I wonder if they even encrypt the data down the line.
Frankly I am not sure they can have a secure system. Even if you get rid of the home ownership, what about the bar's owner messing with it? The users control the client, and when there is money to be made people will try to cheat. Even Las Vegas has problems with people cheating their slot machines and they have a government agency and inspections.
Link to comment with mirrors
Google cache
Program
http://www.jibble.org/files/PieSpy-0.2.2.zip
(Original link, only use if mine is down and YOU are going to mirror.)
Cox Cable (used to be @home) recently cut off one of their users that had a worm. It was one of the nice ones that sends out spam. They gave her a few days to fix the problem, or be disconnected. Funny thing is she did have NAV installed, someone just clicked 'leave alone' to the dialog when it came up. Ah, the joys of spending 2 hours cleaning up spyware, viruses, and gigs of pr0n of 'questionable' tastes that the wife did not know about.
IANAL(I know, it's shocking! Someone on slashdot that isn't a lawyer!) but wasn't timeshifting deemed fair-use by the courts? Thus doesn't the broadcast flag impair the viewer's fair-use rights? (I didn't read the brief, I'm not a masochist.)
Worked fine for me in FireFox. I right clicked in the main frame, frame, show only this frame. Even worked when I copy/pasted it into a new tab before I made the comment.
http://www.okjolt.org/published/2004mainrev10.html
For all of you lynx folks who would have to figure out which of 4 frames is the correct one...
Just store everyone on your C=64! Once they yank the power it's gone!
(Yes, I know about recovering data from RAM, It's a joke.)