This is great news! The more software companies pull this crap, the more people will migrate to utilizing open source software / other software that respects people?s own moral judgments. I think this is just to protect them in court if a trial was to ever come up and it was discovered that the counterfeiter used an adobe package etc?how and why, I do not know, but as with so many other things, this is approaching the problem from the wrong direction. I?ve forgotten, isn?t America supposed to be a free and democratic country? This sounds pretty communist to me?because I?m sure there was some pressure from political entities to put this feature in.
Adobe doesn't realize that this is a violation of a basic principle, which will continue at an exponential rate. At some point, people will get fed up with this "we'd like to protect you from yourself" garbage, and just choose other options. As someone said above, if you don't like it, use something else, and people will use something else eventually, and companies like Adobe will loose market share, die out, and then sit and wonder why over the next decade.
*laughs* This is the dumbest trend a software company could start...and it?s only going to hurt them in the end.
Some awesome points there...
I agree with you, it is stupid for the administration to react like this, all it does is expose just how insecure and afraid the government really is. How much more have we been hearing about terrorist this, and al queda that sdince sept 11th? I'm sorry, move on, it was a horrible tragic day, but don't let it live in 'infamy' and plague the minds of your citizens for the rest of the decade. Because of bush and all this 'fast-law-passing' the country is now more afraid than it ever has been.
Is anyone thinking about what happens to all this finger-printing and photo-id data? We live in a digital age now, and it's not like paper records, that can get lost or deteriorated. We're talking about trusting the most personal aspects of a human being to a government who doesn't even respect basic international policy...I'll be damned if they'll be getting my finger-prints and a picture...
>clever criminals don't get caught so you don't hear about them
>FBI Files and COPS tend not to show you cases where the perpetrator outwitted the victims *and* the police *and* the FBI.
I agree, the guy was sloppy, and he deserved to get caught, I mean not that what he was doing was right (although I do detest best buy...
This is how the wise is separated from the foolish. How the F.B.I did this isn't even really that spectacular, they just efficiently used this mans ignorance of the methods he was using. A simple firewall, or some proxy software would have saved his butt in this scenario...
This is all a really basic premise that everyone seems to be complicating much more than it needs to be.
Why didn't people make this much noise about half life when it came out, I mean you can hack scientist to pieces with crowbars, and blow security guards away at your leisure...is it because GTA III & Vice City are set more in a normal civilian arena?
Games are games because, that's what they are, GAMES, and that's what their purpose is, to provide an arena away from the real world, in which one can become and do things, not doable in reality. The Japanese seem to have a firm grasp on this concept.
Parents are too busy trying to find a reason for their lapse in moral judgment and basic respect of human principles, if it isn't the video game industry, it's something else...look at what the Jerry Springer brings to network television, and these media pukes have the nerve to talk about violent video games being the cause for the nations idiotic youth?
No way, I disagree, violence in video games only becomes a problem when kids who are too young to differentiate between reality, and fantasy. This again leads back to the point of responsible parenting. It is by no means, the responsibility of the gaming industry to deal with this problem, and if the media thinks it is, then I'd like to start a following to point out all the violence and damaging propaganda that mass media in the united states projects with all it's pride and glory...
When the hell are people going to start being responsible for their own actions? It's really a simple concept. Like everything else though, someone just wants someone to sue...I'm so sick of hearing about Vice City, and even if it was to get banned, hasn't the government learned from it's 'war on drugs' that no matter how illegal you make something, people will always have access to it.
Slashdot Mirror
This is great news! The more software companies pull this crap, the more people will migrate to utilizing open source software / other software that respects people?s own moral judgments. I think this is just to protect them in court if a trial was to ever come up and it was discovered that the counterfeiter used an adobe package etc?how and why, I do not know, but as with so many other things, this is approaching the problem from the wrong direction. I?ve forgotten, isn?t America supposed to be a free and democratic country? This sounds pretty communist to me?because I?m sure there was some pressure from political entities to put this feature in. Adobe doesn't realize that this is a violation of a basic principle, which will continue at an exponential rate. At some point, people will get fed up with this "we'd like to protect you from yourself" garbage, and just choose other options. As someone said above, if you don't like it, use something else, and people will use something else eventually, and companies like Adobe will loose market share, die out, and then sit and wonder why over the next decade. *laughs* This is the dumbest trend a software company could start...and it?s only going to hurt them in the end.
Some awesome points there... I agree with you, it is stupid for the administration to react like this, all it does is expose just how insecure and afraid the government really is. How much more have we been hearing about terrorist this, and al queda that sdince sept 11th? I'm sorry, move on, it was a horrible tragic day, but don't let it live in 'infamy' and plague the minds of your citizens for the rest of the decade. Because of bush and all this 'fast-law-passing' the country is now more afraid than it ever has been.
Is anyone thinking about what happens to all this finger-printing and photo-id data? We live in a digital age now, and it's not like paper records, that can get lost or deteriorated. We're talking about trusting the most personal aspects of a human being to a government who doesn't even respect basic international policy...I'll be damned if they'll be getting my finger-prints and a picture...
>clever criminals don't get caught so you don't hear about them >FBI Files and COPS tend not to show you cases where the perpetrator outwitted the victims *and* the police *and* the FBI. I agree, the guy was sloppy, and he deserved to get caught, I mean not that what he was doing was right (although I do detest best buy... This is how the wise is separated from the foolish. How the F.B.I did this isn't even really that spectacular, they just efficiently used this mans ignorance of the methods he was using. A simple firewall, or some proxy software would have saved his butt in this scenario...
This is all a really basic premise that everyone seems to be complicating much more than it needs to be. Why didn't people make this much noise about half life when it came out, I mean you can hack scientist to pieces with crowbars, and blow security guards away at your leisure...is it because GTA III & Vice City are set more in a normal civilian arena? Games are games because, that's what they are, GAMES, and that's what their purpose is, to provide an arena away from the real world, in which one can become and do things, not doable in reality. The Japanese seem to have a firm grasp on this concept. Parents are too busy trying to find a reason for their lapse in moral judgment and basic respect of human principles, if it isn't the video game industry, it's something else...look at what the Jerry Springer brings to network television, and these media pukes have the nerve to talk about violent video games being the cause for the nations idiotic youth?
No way, I disagree, violence in video games only becomes a problem when kids who are too young to differentiate between reality, and fantasy. This again leads back to the point of responsible parenting. It is by no means, the responsibility of the gaming industry to deal with this problem, and if the media thinks it is, then I'd like to start a following to point out all the violence and damaging propaganda that mass media in the united states projects with all it's pride and glory... When the hell are people going to start being responsible for their own actions? It's really a simple concept. Like everything else though, someone just wants someone to sue...I'm so sick of hearing about Vice City, and even if it was to get banned, hasn't the government learned from it's 'war on drugs' that no matter how illegal you make something, people will always have access to it.