I dunno, but this quote seems to make it seem fake (or just very stupid):
"Our goal is to shut down as much of this illegal operation as quickly as possible to stem the serious financial damage to the victims of this high-tech piracy - the people who labor to produce these copyrighted products," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Richter. "Today's crackdown sends a clear and unmistakable message to anyone involved in the online theft of copyrighted works that they cannot hide behind new technology."
"Internet pirates cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year from the illegal sale of copyrighted goods and new online file-sharing technologies make their job even easier," said Assistant Secretary Garcia. "Through today's landmark enforcement actions, ICE and the FBI have shut down a group of online criminals who were using legitimate technology to create one-stop shopping for the illegal sharing of movies, games, software and music."
"The theft of copyrighted material is far from a victimless crime," said Assistant Director Reigel of the FBI. "When thieves steal this data, they are taking jobs away from hard workers in industry, which adversely impacts the U.S. economy. The FBI remains committed to working with our partners in law enforcement at all levels and private industry to identify and take action against those responsible."
Why the FUCK would the FBI (who's purpose is to prevent communism) even get involved in copyright infringement? This seems to be in the **AAs' field to send cease and desist letters, or even the FTC to step in and bitch at ET, but not the FBI...
Time Warner later mentioned that they were sick of their employees spending all day chatting on AIM and claiming they were "beta testing" the next release.
Remember when Nintendo and Sony broke up and Sony began development on the PS1? Sega was working on the Saturn, and Sony pulled a huge publicity stunt by pricing the PS1 at $300 (the Saturn was going to be $500 or so). Thus, Sega had to price the Saturn down to $300 to compete, thus losing money on each console (one of the only consoles to ever do this at launch). Now that Sega's out of the way, Sony can go and price their PS3 at an outrageous (for a console) price of $500.
Since the Revolution is going to have 802.11b (maybe g if they're cool), and since the DS already has builtin WiFi, I'm pretty sure the DS can play a major role in connectivity. I'm hoping that Nintendo goes the extra mile and makes the DS actually worth connecting to the Revolution and its games. It was a good idea with the GCN/GBA, but it didn't go too far in the innovation regarding the developers aspect.
Well, when Microsoft releases their own version of Firefox (similar to the Netscape thing based on Firefox) and forgets to change the useragent string, I think the Firefox user count should rise much quicker...
But the difference with that is the cure for cancer would most likely cost a lot at first, and I don't think Menthos would be distributing the cure for free...
there is very little incentive for a creator to genuinely make something new
Fox has been doing this for years, and I don't think copyrights play a role in this...
Seriously though, I don't think that people should be able to make profits on old ideas beyond a certain time period (e.g. 20 years). People should make profits with new and real innovations. Regurgatating shit you've been doing for many years logically doesn't make sense as a model for profit (it fulfills the "???" step, so it obviously can't be right!)...
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Why the FUCK would the FBI (who's purpose is to prevent communism) even get involved in copyright infringement? This seems to be in the **AAs' field to send cease and desist letters, or even the FTC to step in and bitch at ET, but not the FBI...
I don't know about your keyboard, but mine has a little raised surface thinger on the f and j keys for re-aligning your hands onto homerow.
"The Playstation 3 is a computer LOLOL."
When the PS3 fanboys responded with "Dell PC case", the Xbox fanboys went back to playing Halo 2.
Well, in Windows, you can set a Ctrl+Alt+* combination to start a program (where * is almost any key on the keyboard).
In that case, I'd suggest that they sunset the bill on 19 Jan 2038 instead.
I guess that makes me glad to know that Firefox allows me to set a minimum font size to display.
As far as I recall, there were plenty of limbs being cut off throughout the movie.
"Hey look, it's Stubby, the flaming torso!"
Time Warner later mentioned that they were sick of their employees spending all day chatting on AIM and claiming they were "beta testing" the next release.
Dude, what Sears catalog are you reading? They aren't wearing clothes in mine...
Wait, how do you spell "Sears" again? Uh-oh...
They prefer to call it "derivative works of an IP", not "censored". ;)
don't want you to make the same mistake in this international forum.
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And he would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling spelling nerds, and your dog too!
The "Don't Copy Manuscripts Act"?
Are you implying that "security by obscurity" is better than the OSS way? I dunno...
The responsible person would report a "lost finger" just like reporting a lost card. Imagine that embarrassing phone call...
Do you really think Microsoft of all corporations would allow Sony to get away with something like this? They'd go more berserk than the **AA's have.
Remember when Nintendo and Sony broke up and Sony began development on the PS1? Sega was working on the Saturn, and Sony pulled a huge publicity stunt by pricing the PS1 at $300 (the Saturn was going to be $500 or so). Thus, Sega had to price the Saturn down to $300 to compete, thus losing money on each console (one of the only consoles to ever do this at launch). Now that Sega's out of the way, Sony can go and price their PS3 at an outrageous (for a console) price of $500.
How ironic...
(b) make it unpleasant to run with privilege
Hey, at least they're 1 for 2.
Indeed, since telnet was recently updated to parse all ActiveX code, signed or unsigned or shat on (like most ActiveX usually is).
Since the Revolution is going to have 802.11b (maybe g if they're cool), and since the DS already has builtin WiFi, I'm pretty sure the DS can play a major role in connectivity. I'm hoping that Nintendo goes the extra mile and makes the DS actually worth connecting to the Revolution and its games. It was a good idea with the GCN/GBA, but it didn't go too far in the innovation regarding the developers aspect.
Well, when Microsoft releases their own version of Firefox (similar to the Netscape thing based on Firefox) and forgets to change the useragent string, I think the Firefox user count should rise much quicker...
But the difference with that is the cure for cancer would most likely cost a lot at first, and I don't think Menthos would be distributing the cure for free...
I hope you meant "women"...
there is very little incentive for a creator to genuinely make something new
Fox has been doing this for years, and I don't think copyrights play a role in this...
Seriously though, I don't think that people should be able to make profits on old ideas beyond a certain time period (e.g. 20 years). People should make profits with new and real innovations. Regurgatating shit you've been doing for many years logically doesn't make sense as a model for profit (it fulfills the "???" step, so it obviously can't be right!)...
Aww, really? I thought it meant 1^1281 + 1. I was like "wtf 2 is a prime number, and that takes me all of no time to calculate."