I don't get it, BSG is one of the cheesiest sci-fi shows to be released in years, and everyone keeps raving about how cool it is. Entertaining...somewhat. Cheesy....definitly.
Lets see...Bad guys that look look everyone else. Duh!!! That is the most uninspired piece of chedder I have ever heard of. Just because there is 'terrorist' whining all over the news, doesn't make calling the 'terrorists' Cylons a good idea. Besides, Stargate has had bad guy aliens that look just like everyone else for eight seasons. Not to mention the movie before the series.
Then there is the Monterey Jack idea of making Starbuck a woman. That way we can have all that sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo. Woo Hoo. Like that didn't run it's course on Silk Stockings. Oh, and while your at it, make Boomer a woman too, that way you can have one more military romace, or two!
Then we have Pressato girl, Seven on Nine...er...I mean Six. You know the tall hot blond that is kind of human and kind of machine. Come on, if your going to rip off another show, you don't rip off Voyager. Cheese!!!!
We can't forget the Montasio camera work. I know, they thought that they were making it 'gritty' with the crappy shaky camera, but it just comes off as a failed attempt to be 'cool'.
We then have to ask how after 20 years and huge improvements in special effects, you can make ships and cylons that don't look half as cool as the originals.
Then there is the Brie effect caused by trying so hard not to be cheesy. Did they have to change the characters names into 'Call Signs'? If we can have guys named Jesus, and women named Mary in a Christian based culture, what is wrong with Apollo and Starbuck in a spacefaring Greek/Astrology/Egyptian Mythos based culture? The switch was just another failed attempt at trying too hard.
Honestly, while BSG is a reasonably entertaining show, calling it Battle Star Galactica only hurts the original, as it just isn't as good.
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I'd rather see them replace the fans with robots. Then we can stop listening to people yelling about how they are number 1, because some millionair that couldn't care whether they live or die, made a touchdown.
"Still faster than a trip to the mall, even on dial-up"
"Which was just the break the publishing industry had been waiting for: book sales really took off after the press was invented (thank you, Professor Obvious from STFU)."
And using a printing press is still faster than a hand scribe. How big is the hand scribe business? Yes, that's right, very low. Just because some people will make more money and some will make less, does not mean that an information sharing technology should be shunned as evil. (No offense to any Quakers that may be reading this.)
"I take it you've never borrowed anything from a public library then. Of course it's going to be horribly mangled!"
Ahhh...But I can generally still read it. Why? Because Letters are in essence integers. That means that you get a perfect copy of each letter (possible corrected at reading), or you don't get it at all.
"Considering that a lot of software is available through P2P, and software has to be delivered bit-perfect otherwise it just doesn't work, I'd suggest you guess again."
That's just silly. No program uses every bit of data at launch. Actually, there is a lot of software that had data it NEVER uses. Did you know this, were you fibbing...Or do you still deny it?
"The fact that there are no values between letters simply means that the alphabet is commonly expressed as integers, even though letters have different sounds according to the accent of the person speaking (and there are indeed intermediate values for vowels, best known being the dipthong, which is ae combined). However, a lack of intermediate values is not the defining characteristic of digital, merely a necessary limitation of using a finite number of bits (analog is just digital with an infinite number of bits; less in practice, since there is a lower limit to any measurable quantity determined by physics. Even a thermionic valve is limited to a current resolution of 1 electron, regardless of voltage)."
Digital to mean pertaining to the "Numbers" 0-9 only, whould mean that any Hex data is not digital. I'm pretty sure that it is, and am suprised that you don't think so. You do recognize that Hex is digital? Perhaps you are going to say that this or that physics model requires it to be a 1 or 0 at this atomic level or that. Fine....The fact is that there are no ones and zeros on my hard drive. There are switch states, and those switch states can be CONVERTED to a 1 or 0 which is a REPRESENTATION of what is actually on the drive. They can then be CONVERTED to HEX (0 - F) as a REPRESENTATION of what is on the drive. It can then be CONVERTED to A - Z, as a REPRESENTATION of what is on the drive. This can go back and forth forever, and you will either get perfect copies, or integer errors. This is what makes it digital.
Honestly, I wish that your definition of "Digital" were correct, as it would resolve all of the problems we have with the RI/MPAA. Since none of the songs, movies, books (well maybe a few books have some "Digital" data in them), you name it are never represented as 0-9, it would mean that none of this is digital media, and thus does not fall under the DMCA! Please...PLEASE let your defiition hold up in a court. I certainly wouldn't try using that defense, but I hope someone could successfully.
Well, p2p is hardly instant, and definitly not giving you perfect copies on any kind of regular basis, so it is more like calling the library, and later you will get a copy that might be perfect, or could be horribly mangled.
Although, even if they were perfect copies, and they showed up in seconds, it would be little different from the transistion from hand copying, and the movable type printing press. Think about it. Instead of copying one book in months with a large error rate, a single person could produce thousands of perfect copies in a fraction of the time. I would dare say that a printing press is more reliable at producing perfect copies than most p2p applications.
People forget that the written language is a digital medium. It is not analog. There is no value between 'A' and 'B' or 'T' and 'U'. When written text is copied, it is either copied correctly, or incorrectly. If may be stored in different formats like script, type, or on a computer, but the letter 'A' is an absolute value.
On a tangent, could hieroglyphics be considered analog writting? Do they have absolute values, or do they sort of mean stuff?
Until someone explains how libraries killed the publishing industry, any claims that access to free information kills distribution industries is pointless.
Any one of us can go down and get virtually any book we want for free, use it until we are done, and never pay a penny. The authors have no say in this. If you don't want libraries to have your books.. Too bad. It's not up to you.
Did libraries kill the publishing industry? No. Why? Because most people will take the extra convinence of just paying 5 bucks for the book, over the inconvinence of the library. If the Media Barons would take a more reasonable cut, and make getting music more convienent, they wouldn't have to worry.
Basically it comes down to this... Since P2P networks are an equivellent institution to libraries, (execept the "...on the Internet." line that makes no difference.), claiming that P2P is wrong. (Not illegal...wrong) means that you either:
1) Think Libraries are wrong and should be shut down. Benjamin Franklin was a theiving pirate. Radio is evil. (mandatory licensing) People who use libraries are theives. Our educational system systematically teaches our children to be theives by putting a library in almost every school. America has a tradition of being theives dating back to 1731. And the publishing industry collapsed sometime in the middle to late 1700s, never to be a viable industry again.
OR
2) You are a hypocrate.
Of coarse if you have ever used a library, either in school, or public, then of course you are a hypocrate anyway.
That becomes more poinent when you consider that I don't believe I have ever met a single individual that hasn't commited some kind of copyright/patent violation.
You don't get to play the holier than thou information is property card unless the producers that you speak of, go back and pay for all of the works that they used to create their derivitive works. (i.e. every idea in every movie, right down to the language itself.)
Just because someone doesn't know you took a five dollar bill out of their wallet, and just because they don't call the police, doesn't mean that you haven't stolen from them. Based on the "IP" concept, every movie, song, book out there is a pirate work. As a matter of fact, so is every post made here.
Funny, that is what happened to the Jews in Germany. A bit of civil rights violations here... A bit of civil rights violations there. Then when there is no turning back, concentration camps.
I know that many will call that an unfair comparison, but allowing absolute control of the flow of information is a real threat to freedom. The fact that some people see it BEFORE the guns come out doesn't make them wrong.
As for the claim that they did it all themselves...Wrong. You cite one item that they "Sell" (Rent) that is not derivitive from someone elses work, and we can talk, but you will have a hard time finding it.
"You know what you are getting when you buy songs from iTunes, DRM encryption that ties the song to you."
And Rosa Parks knew what she was getting into when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Knowing that your are going to have your rights violated by a business does not mean that you have no right to complain. Your not suggesting that Rosa Parks should have moved to the back of the bus because |She knew what she was getting into| are you?
"Creating these hacks is really like taking the silverware and plates out of a restaurant when you know you are really paying just for the food."
No, it is like taking the onions off your burger when you know that the menu shows the burger WITH onions.
"It's so hypocritical how slashdot really realy really hates GPL violators, but cheers something like this."
This is nonsensical. Most people that hate GPL violators, hate them because the GPL violators are performing the same act as the DRR (Digital Rights Restriction) groups are doing. Building their projects on the shoulders of those that came before, then trying to stop anyone else from doing the same. It's not about honoring or breaking a license. It's about submitting an idea to society, then trying to control the idea, even if it means that part of our culture is lost to future generations.
Fox Movie Channel tells why DRM/DRR is a catastrophy in the making..
"Sadly, 90% of films made during the silent era are gone, due to neglect or chemical decomposition. 50% of films made before 1950 have suffered a similar fate."
Much of our cultural history was lost. Now that we have ways for millions of people to help stop this from happening again, DRR shows up, and we are faced with it all happening again.
Nobody seems to realize the biggest benefit to the stores, and biggest abuse to the customer. The rebates are specifically set up to deny you the right to return the product. Every rebate requires you to damage the box. If you try to return the product after cutting out the upc, you are out of luck.
Enterprise has the same problem that Firefly had. For some reason, they want to run directly against Stargate. That simply will not work. If Stargate was new, or sucked, then maybe they would have a chance, but neigther of these are the case. Just becasue you cans say "Sci-Friday" doesn't mean that every Sci-Fi show must run on Friday. I loved Firefly. It was a great show, that broke new ground. It tried something new, and it worked. Unfortuanatly, I didn't get to see it until it came out on DVD. I certainly wasn't going to miss a show that I KNOW I like, and have been watching for several years, in the hopes that maybe this new show might also be good. If it would have run on Tuesday or Saturday, I would have been a faithful view.
Ok, I understand the "Cases" part, as that is when you are actually suing because you have been damaged, but is there some "legal" definition for the word "contraversies" that is different from the definition used in standard American English? The broadcast flag is certainly a contraversy.
No, you could alway reform/repeal copyright law. Then it would no longer be ILLEGAL. Add to the the unlikly passing of a consumer rights law that owutlaws DRM, and companies would no longer have to keep playing this game.
Microsoft does not need to keep backward compatibility in Longhorn. They bought VirtualPC. They only need to rewrite the video card emulation to allow for d3d, and then only up to the current version. Once that is done, they include VPC and a preinsalled WinXP image that has the emulated hardware drivers hard complied into VPC.
This solves the backward compatibility problems, even for games. It keeps people from copying the drive image to use on stand alone PC, and frees Microsoft to rewrite any part of Windows they want without the slightest thought to backward compatibility.
Heck, if they really wanted to do it right, they could include an image of every version of their OS all the way back to DOS 1.0. That would make Longhorn the most backward compatible Windows yet.
Yeah! Like football! We don't need more people who understand computers. We need more people that know how to buy SPECTATOR sports related stuff. When are we going to learn that hiring qualified coaches, installing night lighting (with the added electric costs), and remodeling aging school stadiums is WAY more important that hiring competant computer/History/Civics/Math teachers.
The real solution, is to run conduit. I understand single wires if you are retrofitting, and don't want a big job, but running conduit from the attic to each room is the end all be all solution. In my home, I just did a complete renovation. With all the sheetrock down already, I went ahead and ran a 1" plastic conduit in each room. Not 6 months after I finished, I subscribed to Dish Network, and found that their new 2 tuner boxes require 2 cables to be run from the dish to the box. If I had not run conduit, I would have been tearing up the walls I just put in.
As it was, I just pushed a new RG6 cable through the conduit, and added a connector to the faceplate.
And there is where you hit the nail on the head. I halfway seriously predict that Nintendo will release their console with a Super Nintendo Emulator, and allow internet downloads withour licensing fees (to them, You would still have to pay the author). This would:
Allow all of their old licensees to make a ton of money with little more than putting up a web server.
Allow for F/OSS software to be written for the system.
Limit the F/OSS software to the power of a SNES, thus ensuring that the regular licensees still want to pay for the right to sell the software they wrote.
Move all of those people who bought an X-Box just for the SNES games back to Nintendo.
If they are really smart, they would add NES, Genesis, Atari 2600 and Amiga Emulation while they are at it. None of these would cut into their core business of game licensing, but they would certainly get a lot of systems into living rooms. I would definitly buy one.
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I don't get it, BSG is one of the cheesiest sci-fi shows to be released in years, and everyone keeps raving about how cool it is. Entertaining...somewhat. Cheesy....definitly.
Lets see...Bad guys that look look everyone else. Duh!!! That is the most uninspired piece of chedder I have ever heard of. Just because there is 'terrorist' whining all over the news, doesn't make calling the 'terrorists' Cylons a good idea. Besides, Stargate has had bad guy aliens that look just like everyone else for eight seasons. Not to mention the movie before the series.
Then there is the Monterey Jack idea of making Starbuck a woman. That way we can have all that sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo. Woo Hoo. Like that didn't run it's course on Silk Stockings. Oh, and while your at it, make Boomer a woman too, that way you can have one more military romace, or two!
Then we have Pressato girl, Seven on Nine...er...I mean Six. You know the tall hot blond that is kind of human and kind of machine. Come on, if your going to rip off another show, you don't rip off Voyager. Cheese!!!!
We can't forget the Montasio camera work. I know, they thought that they were making it 'gritty' with the crappy shaky camera, but it just comes off as a failed attempt to be 'cool'.
We then have to ask how after 20 years and huge improvements in special effects, you can make ships and cylons that don't look half as cool as the originals.
Then there is the Brie effect caused by trying so hard not to be cheesy. Did they have to change the characters names into 'Call Signs'? If we can have guys named Jesus, and women named Mary in a Christian based culture, what is wrong with Apollo and Starbuck in a spacefaring Greek/Astrology/Egyptian Mythos based culture? The switch was just another failed attempt at trying too hard.
Honestly, while BSG is a reasonably entertaining show, calling it Battle Star Galactica only hurts the original, as it just isn't as good.
I'd rather see them replace the fans with robots. Then we can stop listening to people yelling about how they are number 1, because some millionair that couldn't care whether they live or die, made a touchdown.
Space Taxi!
Wow, your reading comprehension is very low!.
"Still faster than a trip to the mall, even on dial-up"
"Which was just the break the publishing industry had been waiting for: book sales really took off after the press was invented (thank you, Professor Obvious from STFU)."
And using a printing press is still faster than a hand scribe. How big is the hand scribe business? Yes, that's right, very low. Just because some people will make more money and some will make less, does not mean that an information sharing technology should be shunned as evil. (No offense to any Quakers that may be reading this.)
"I take it you've never borrowed anything from a public library then. Of course it's going to be horribly mangled!"
Ahhh...But I can generally still read it. Why? Because Letters are in essence integers. That means that you get a perfect copy of each letter (possible corrected at reading), or you don't get it at all.
"Considering that a lot of software is available through P2P, and software has to be delivered bit-perfect otherwise it just doesn't work, I'd suggest you guess again."
That's just silly. No program uses every bit of data at launch. Actually, there is a lot of software that had data it NEVER uses. Did you know this, were you fibbing...Or do you still deny it?
"The fact that there are no values between letters simply means that the alphabet is commonly expressed as integers, even though letters have different sounds according to the accent of the person speaking (and there are indeed intermediate values for vowels, best known being the dipthong, which is ae combined). However, a lack of intermediate values is not the defining characteristic of digital, merely a necessary limitation of using a finite number of bits (analog is just digital with an infinite number of bits; less in practice, since there is a lower limit to any measurable quantity determined by physics. Even a thermionic valve is limited to a current resolution of 1 electron, regardless of voltage)."
Digital to mean pertaining to the "Numbers" 0-9 only, whould mean that any Hex data is not digital. I'm pretty sure that it is, and am suprised that you don't think so. You do recognize that Hex is digital? Perhaps you are going to say that this or that physics model requires it to be a 1 or 0 at this atomic level or that. Fine....The fact is that there are no ones and zeros on my hard drive. There are switch states, and those switch states can be CONVERTED to a 1 or 0 which is a REPRESENTATION of what is actually on the drive. They can then be CONVERTED to HEX (0 - F) as a REPRESENTATION of what is on the drive. It can then be CONVERTED to A - Z, as a REPRESENTATION of what is on the drive. This can go back and forth forever, and you will either get perfect copies, or integer errors. This is what makes it digital.
Honestly, I wish that your definition of "Digital" were correct, as it would resolve all of the problems we have with the RI/MPAA. Since none of the songs, movies, books (well maybe a few books have some "Digital" data in them), you name it are never represented as 0-9, it would mean that none of this is digital media, and thus does not fall under the DMCA! Please...PLEASE let your defiition hold up in a court. I certainly wouldn't try using that defense, but I hope someone could successfully.
Well, p2p is hardly instant, and definitly not giving you perfect copies on any kind of regular basis, so it is more like calling the library, and later you will get a copy that might be perfect, or could be horribly mangled.
Although, even if they were perfect copies, and they showed up in seconds, it would be little different from the transistion from hand copying, and the movable type printing press. Think about it. Instead of copying one book in months with a large error rate, a single person could produce thousands of perfect copies in a fraction of the time. I would dare say that a printing press is more reliable at producing perfect copies than most p2p applications.
People forget that the written language is a digital medium. It is not analog. There is no value between 'A' and 'B' or 'T' and 'U'. When written text is copied, it is either copied correctly, or incorrectly. If may be stored in different formats like script, type, or on a computer, but the letter 'A' is an absolute value.
On a tangent, could hieroglyphics be considered analog writting? Do they have absolute values, or do they sort of mean stuff?
Until someone explains how libraries killed the publishing industry, any claims that access to free information kills distribution industries is pointless.
Any one of us can go down and get virtually any book we want for free, use it until we are done, and never pay a penny. The authors have no say in this. If you don't want libraries to have your books.. Too bad. It's not up to you.
Did libraries kill the publishing industry? No. Why? Because most people will take the extra convinence of just paying 5 bucks for the book, over the inconvinence of the library. If the Media Barons would take a more reasonable cut, and make getting music more convienent, they wouldn't have to worry.
Basically it comes down to this... Since P2P networks are an equivellent institution to libraries, (execept the "...on the Internet." line that makes no difference.), claiming that P2P is wrong. (Not illegal...wrong) means that you either:
1) Think Libraries are wrong and should be shut down. Benjamin Franklin was a theiving pirate. Radio is evil. (mandatory licensing) People who use libraries are theives. Our educational system systematically teaches our children to be theives by putting a library in almost every school. America has a tradition of being theives dating back to 1731. And the publishing industry collapsed sometime in the middle to late 1700s, never to be a viable industry again.
OR
2) You are a hypocrate.
Of coarse if you have ever used a library, either in school, or public, then of course you are a hypocrate anyway.
That becomes more poinent when you consider that I don't believe I have ever met a single individual that hasn't commited some kind of copyright/patent violation.
You don't get to play the holier than thou information is property card unless the producers that you speak of, go back and pay for all of the works that they used to create their derivitive works. (i.e. every idea in every movie, right down to the language itself.)
Just because someone doesn't know you took a five dollar bill out of their wallet, and just because they don't call the police, doesn't mean that you haven't stolen from them. Based on the "IP" concept, every movie, song, book out there is a pirate work. As a matter of fact, so is every post made here.
Funny, that is what happened to the Jews in Germany. A bit of civil rights violations here... A bit of civil rights violations there. Then when there is no turning back, concentration camps.
I know that many will call that an unfair comparison, but allowing absolute control of the flow of information is a real threat to freedom. The fact that some people see it BEFORE the guns come out doesn't make them wrong.
As for the claim that they did it all themselves...Wrong. You cite one item that they "Sell" (Rent) that is not derivitive from someone elses work, and we can talk, but you will have a hard time finding it.
That is because your a racist and the color of a persons skin is all that matters to you when it comes to a persons civil rights.
"You know what you are getting when you buy songs from iTunes, DRM encryption that ties the song to you."
And Rosa Parks knew what she was getting into when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Knowing that your are going to have your rights violated by a business does not mean that you have no right to complain. Your not suggesting that Rosa Parks should have moved to the back of the bus because |She knew what she was getting into| are you?
"Creating these hacks is really like taking the silverware and plates out of a restaurant when you know you are really paying just for the food."
No, it is like taking the onions off your burger when you know that the menu shows the burger WITH onions.
"It's so hypocritical how slashdot really realy really hates GPL violators, but cheers something like this."
This is nonsensical. Most people that hate GPL violators, hate them because the GPL violators are performing the same act as the DRR (Digital Rights Restriction) groups are doing. Building their projects on the shoulders of those that came before, then trying to stop anyone else from doing the same. It's not about honoring or breaking a license. It's about submitting an idea to society, then trying to control the idea, even if it means that part of our culture is lost to future generations.
Fox Movie Channel tells why DRM/DRR is a catastrophy in the making.. "Sadly, 90% of films made during the silent era are gone, due to neglect or chemical decomposition. 50% of films made before 1950 have suffered a similar fate." Much of our cultural history was lost. Now that we have ways for millions of people to help stop this from happening again, DRR shows up, and we are faced with it all happening again.
How about just keeping the same address, and if the "authentication" is in the email, it can be run through a more leaneant filter than the email 1.0.
Nobody seems to realize the biggest benefit to the stores, and biggest abuse to the customer. The rebates are specifically set up to deny you the right to return the product. Every rebate requires you to damage the box. If you try to return the product after cutting out the upc, you are out of luck.
I have found that generally, the only time someone tells you that they have a degree is either just before, or just after they say something dumb.
The big old Internet is what they'll have been doing for years.
Enterprise has the same problem that Firefly had. For some reason, they want to run directly against Stargate. That simply will not work. If Stargate was new, or sucked, then maybe they would have a chance, but neigther of these are the case. Just becasue you cans say "Sci-Friday" doesn't mean that every Sci-Fi show must run on Friday. I loved Firefly. It was a great show, that broke new ground. It tried something new, and it worked. Unfortuanatly, I didn't get to see it until it came out on DVD. I certainly wasn't going to miss a show that I KNOW I like, and have been watching for several years, in the hopes that maybe this new show might also be good. If it would have run on Tuesday or Saturday, I would have been a faithful view.
"If that were true, why hasn't Windows gone away?" Because enough time has not passed yet.
Ok, I understand the "Cases" part, as that is when you are actually suing because you have been damaged, but is there some "legal" definition for the word "contraversies" that is different from the definition used in standard American English? The broadcast flag is certainly a contraversy.
This is worse than you think...This behaviour is MOST prevelent in childrens movies. How unethical is that?!?!?! Prey on the children.
No, you could alway reform/repeal copyright law. Then it would no longer be ILLEGAL. Add to the the unlikly passing of a consumer rights law that owutlaws DRM, and companies would no longer have to keep playing this game.
Microsoft does not need to keep backward compatibility in Longhorn. They bought VirtualPC. They only need to rewrite the video card emulation to allow for d3d, and then only up to the current version. Once that is done, they include VPC and a preinsalled WinXP image that has the emulated hardware drivers hard complied into VPC.
This solves the backward compatibility problems, even for games. It keeps people from copying the drive image to use on stand alone PC, and frees Microsoft to rewrite any part of Windows they want without the slightest thought to backward compatibility. Heck, if they really wanted to do it right, they could include an image of every version of their OS all the way back to DOS 1.0. That would make Longhorn the most backward compatible Windows yet.
Yeah! Like football! We don't need more people who understand computers. We need more people that know how to buy SPECTATOR sports related stuff. When are we going to learn that hiring qualified coaches, installing night lighting (with the added electric costs), and remodeling aging school stadiums is WAY more important that hiring competant computer/History/Civics/Math teachers.
Wake up America!
The real solution, is to run conduit. I understand single wires if you are retrofitting, and don't want a big job, but running conduit from the attic to each room is the end all be all solution. In my home, I just did a complete renovation. With all the sheetrock down already, I went ahead and ran a 1" plastic conduit in each room. Not 6 months after I finished, I subscribed to Dish Network, and found that their new 2 tuner boxes require 2 cables to be run from the dish to the box. If I had not run conduit, I would have been tearing up the walls I just put in.
As it was, I just pushed a new RG6 cable through the conduit, and added a connector to the faceplate.
And there is where you hit the nail on the head. I halfway seriously predict that Nintendo will release their console with a Super Nintendo Emulator, and allow internet downloads withour licensing fees (to them, You would still have to pay the author). This would:
Allow all of their old licensees to make a ton of money with little more than putting up a web server.
Allow for F/OSS software to be written for the system.
Limit the F/OSS software to the power of a SNES, thus ensuring that the regular licensees still want to pay for the right to sell the software they wrote.
Move all of those people who bought an X-Box just for the SNES games back to Nintendo.
If they are really smart, they would add NES, Genesis, Atari 2600 and Amiga Emulation while they are at it. None of these would cut into their core business of game licensing, but they would certainly get a lot of systems into living rooms. I would definitly buy one.
But does it tag Windows as p2p since every copy of Windows from WFW 3.11 on had file sharing built in.