Well, the deal only says "third-party" exclusivity. As said in this article:
"However, the Take-Two/MLBPA deal is not totally exclusive, as the EA/NFL agreement was. "At the same time, manufacturers of video game systems will have the opportunity to develop and publish baseball simulation games for their own platforms," read the statement. That caveat is significant since one of the most popular baseball series, MLB, is published by Sony and internally developed at its 989 Sports studio."
So, it's more of a "screw you, EA" move than anything else.
Personally, I think they need to think of another word besides "piracy" if they're going to stop downloading music.
I mean, you hear "pirate" and think "Yarr, I'm a pirate!"
One clear problem, a large percent of public officals have no real clue of technologies, When a big company comes up and says "This is bad pass a bill to prevent it" They nod there head and agree because they just don't know better.
I find myself both saddened by this and forced to agree. A lot of these guys in the government are from the old days when they didn't have this technology, and they can't be bothered to even have their interns check it out. The result is insanely idiotic laws like the CDA and the DMCA.
More on topic, I think this is probably a sign of the apocalypse. Perhaps Microsoft has realized that open source isn't going away, no matter how many congressmen they bribe and scare, and they're hedging their bets.
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I thought that was Geraldo Rivera. Also, how will they know how to fix it unless they know how it's broken?
"Now I've seen everything." Have you ever seen a man eat his own head? ...
Then you haven't seen everything.
Well, the deal only says "third-party" exclusivity. As said in this article: "However, the Take-Two/MLBPA deal is not totally exclusive, as the EA/NFL agreement was. "At the same time, manufacturers of video game systems will have the opportunity to develop and publish baseball simulation games for their own platforms," read the statement. That caveat is significant since one of the most popular baseball series, MLB, is published by Sony and internally developed at its 989 Sports studio." So, it's more of a "screw you, EA" move than anything else.
Personally, I think they need to think of another word besides "piracy" if they're going to stop downloading music. I mean, you hear "pirate" and think "Yarr, I'm a pirate!"
One clear problem, a large percent of public officals have no real clue of technologies, When a big company comes up and says "This is bad pass a bill to prevent it" They nod there head and agree because they just don't know better. I find myself both saddened by this and forced to agree. A lot of these guys in the government are from the old days when they didn't have this technology, and they can't be bothered to even have their interns check it out. The result is insanely idiotic laws like the CDA and the DMCA. More on topic, I think this is probably a sign of the apocalypse. Perhaps Microsoft has realized that open source isn't going away, no matter how many congressmen they bribe and scare, and they're hedging their bets.