If you want to see bittorrent take a LOT of hits you should see some of the more popular unlisenced anime as it first gets released by everyones favourite subbing group. There are frequently over 1500 peers, this starwars torrent is unpopular in comparison.
Aside form not being able to 'shut down' bittorrent in the first place, no I can't see much good coming of this.
The more bittorrent becomes integrated into common things such as browsers (which almost certainly wont tell users they should be uploading these to keep the service alive which other users provided them), the worse things will get on a whole as you get more new users to bittorrent who are just your average user who wants to take the download and be finished with it.
Personally I'd rather bittorrent didn't get integrated into browsers and such as it just brings a vaster number of leechers who will actually help to kill the network.
Full Metal Alchemist isn't all that kiddish. It has some pretty harsh tones throughout a lot of it.
Very involving story and well worth watching, but I havn't seen any dubs of it so I don't know how much they ruin it (as dubs invariably do).
You just compared some downtime for an entire country to that of a single person (yourself)
Add up the amount of time asted between all affected parties and you can't just say 'do something else'.
How many CD's do you have to upload before you get legal attention?
Now what would the punishment be if you shoplifted the same number and gave them away to people on the street?
I know its a very bad comparison as they are two totally different types of crime (theft, copyright infringement) but I feel it would be an interestinbg comparison.
Assuming its possible to make a loss of money by 'landing on' other players 'houses' then you could bet real money proportional to the game money against other people. I'm sure that would make for a more interesting experience.
Where's your logic there?
The top dogs are ATI and Nvidia lets see... one.. two... yeah Im fairly sure I remember how to count and I'm failry sure I can logically compare the number 2 and the number for no competition (1) and say that they are not equal. oh well, maybe I'm wrong.
So you don't copy it the way they want you to. Its obvious there will be ways around. Probably as simple as a small plugin for your ripper program, or using an alternative operating system.
Doesnt knowing where the node is allow countries/organisations/ISPs/whoever to block access to all Tor nodes?
If access to them can be blocked, doesn't that mean that the people with the most need for an anonymous network (Chinese maybe) may not even get access.
Very close to none of those kids who downloaded your software use it for a profitable cause and ever would have payed for the software?
Since when was an imaginary -non sale- equal to a loss in money?
This is the same fucked up logic the music industry is harming its consumer base with.
If someone is going to start using your software in a professional environment or for a serious use they are going to have a lisenced, payed for version.
I bet so many professional graphical artists work on pirated photoshop.. and so many kids would have payed for their experimenting with photoshop if there wasnt a warez version available. Grow up and stop imagining these 'losses'.
You sir wasted a hell of a lot of money on a very nice card to be running at 800x600.
The reason for such enthusiast cards is to be able to run all the pretty shader effects, have loads of decals and polygons and high res textures all running at a high framerate on a high resolution (so you can actually see the detail!).
mod me flaimbait if you want, but I feel this sort of deal is a waste of an enthusiast card on a non-enthusiast.
I find ventrilo better suited to games. It also supports a good few more people in a conversation and doesn't have the irritation of working somewhat like a phone (rather, it uses channels)
If you arn't overly concerned with size (it uses a laptop hard drive) then a neuros is definately the way to go.
Open source hardware and software, suports most formats including ogg, comes significantly cheaper than the ipod and has models right up to 80gigs (admitedly not cheaper than an ipod generally). I certainly plan to buy one of these.
Heh, they need someone like you coming up with plot ideas. I think I would really enjoy that version, I was thinking how hard Gordon had it just being 'called apon' by gman when some dirty work needed doing.
It could very easily have gone this 'dark character' root now I think about it.
Last time I played there were no peds, or random spawned vehicles either. It made it feel a tad deserted. I guess what would be needed is something like a MMO server running it and relaying everythings positions to each player (within a certain radius of the player).
This is neat from a leech perspective, but it means the torrent gets inconsistently seeded leading to only popular files being easy to get while relatively few peers can grab the other files.
While its nice to have the choice, it doesn't exactly help spread your data.
I personally feel the music industry should ligitimately offer something much more simmilar to allofmp3.com because then people would buy - and buy in bulk.
Whats more is you pay proportionatly to the quality you recieve (which you choose yourself)
They really could do it and it would be so popular that most people wouldnt feel the need to even TRY getting music free. Even people who don't otherwise buy music might be tempted.
Maybe they should concentrate on good service and customer satisfaction instead of locking everybody in and hiking the prices.
I will NEVER pay $0.99 (or £0.99 for that matter) for a lossy mp3 with DRM restriction, quater the price quadriple the bitrate and change to a decent format (like ogg) and you would make a good paying customer of me. This shit about wanting to raise the price on their lossy, restricted crap makes me sick and angry.
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If you want to see bittorrent take a LOT of hits you should see some of the more popular unlisenced anime as it first gets released by everyones favourite subbing group.
There are frequently over 1500 peers, this starwars torrent is unpopular in comparison.
Aside form not being able to 'shut down' bittorrent in the first place, no I can't see much good coming of this.
The more bittorrent becomes integrated into common things such as browsers (which almost certainly wont tell users they should be uploading these to keep the service alive which other users provided them), the worse things will get on a whole as you get more new users to bittorrent who are just your average user who wants to take the download and be finished with it.
Personally I'd rather bittorrent didn't get integrated into browsers and such as it just brings a vaster number of leechers who will actually help to kill the network.
Full Metal Alchemist isn't all that kiddish. It has some pretty harsh tones throughout a lot of it. Very involving story and well worth watching, but I havn't seen any dubs of it so I don't know how much they ruin it (as dubs invariably do).
in hands-free mode by tapping on the handset case
I don't know if I'm misreading this, but I certainly use my hands when I tap on something.
You just compared some downtime for an entire country to that of a single person (yourself)
Add up the amount of time asted between all affected parties and you can't just say 'do something else'.
How many CD's do you have to upload before you get legal attention?
Now what would the punishment be if you shoplifted the same number and gave them away to people on the street?
I know its a very bad comparison as they are two totally different types of crime (theft, copyright infringement) but I feel it would be an interestinbg comparison.
Probably if some private companies offer fitting them as a service. Although there is still the financial limitation.
Assuming its possible to make a loss of money by 'landing on' other players 'houses' then you could bet real money proportional to the game money against other people.
I'm sure that would make for a more interesting experience.
Where's your logic there? The top dogs are ATI and Nvidia lets see... one.. two... yeah Im fairly sure I remember how to count and I'm failry sure I can logically compare the number 2 and the number for no competition (1) and say that they are not equal.
oh well, maybe I'm wrong.
This is a great point
... I feel so cliche with this subject line.
So you don't copy it the way they want you to. Its obvious there will be ways around. Probably as simple as a small plugin for your ripper program, or using an alternative operating system.
It complies with the redbook standards, why is it not a CD?
Doesnt knowing where the node is allow countries/organisations/ISPs/whoever to block access to all Tor nodes? If access to them can be blocked, doesn't that mean that the people with the most need for an anonymous network (Chinese maybe) may not even get access.
Very close to none of those kids who downloaded your software use it for a profitable cause and ever would have payed for the software?
Since when was an imaginary -non sale- equal to a loss in money?
This is the same fucked up logic the music industry is harming its consumer base with.
If someone is going to start using your software in a professional environment or for a serious use they are going to have a lisenced, payed for version.
I bet so many professional graphical artists work on pirated photoshop.. and so many kids would have payed for their experimenting with photoshop if there wasnt a warez version available. Grow up and stop imagining these 'losses'.
You sir wasted a hell of a lot of money on a very nice card to be running at 800x600.
The reason for such enthusiast cards is to be able to run all the pretty shader effects, have loads of decals and polygons and high res textures all running at a high framerate on a high resolution (so you can actually see the detail!).
mod me flaimbait if you want, but I feel this sort of deal is a waste of an enthusiast card on a non-enthusiast.
I find ventrilo better suited to games.
It also supports a good few more people in a conversation and doesn't have the irritation of working somewhat like a phone (rather, it uses channels)
Your forgetting to download linux distros..
If you arn't overly concerned with size (it uses a laptop hard drive) then a neuros is definately the way to go.
Open source hardware and software, suports most formats including ogg, comes significantly cheaper than the ipod and has models right up to 80gigs (admitedly not cheaper than an ipod generally).
I certainly plan to buy one of these.
Heh, they need someone like you coming up with plot ideas. I think I would really enjoy that version, I was thinking how hard Gordon had it just being 'called apon' by gman when some dirty work needed doing.
It could very easily have gone this 'dark character' root now I think about it.
Last time I played there were no peds, or random spawned vehicles either. It made it feel a tad deserted.
I guess what would be needed is something like a MMO server running it and relaying everythings positions to each player (within a certain radius of the player).
How do you manage not addictive AND appealing to masses of people?
Exactly! this point NEEDS to be further understood.
Proud I am, to be a member of a country with an abnormally high number of complete dipshits who use computers.
This is neat from a leech perspective, but it means the torrent gets inconsistently seeded leading to only popular files being easy to get while relatively few peers can grab the other files.
While its nice to have the choice, it doesn't exactly help spread your data.
Whats more is you pay proportionatly to the quality you recieve (which you choose yourself)
They really could do it and it would be so popular that most people wouldnt feel the need to even TRY getting music free. Even people who don't otherwise buy music might be tempted.
Maybe they should concentrate on good service and customer satisfaction instead of locking everybody in and hiking the prices.
I will NEVER pay $0.99 (or £0.99 for that matter) for a lossy mp3 with DRM restriction, quater the price quadriple the bitrate and change to a decent format (like ogg) and you would make a good paying customer of me.
This shit about wanting to raise the price on their lossy, restricted crap makes me sick and angry.