Microsoft has been successful in doing exactly this with your Xboxes for years now. No Xbox Live for you Master Tickerer... you modded our Xbox and we don't stand for that. And, people continue to mod their xboxes and play with themselves while others go along with it so they can play in the 'sanitary community' called xbox live.
It'll always be that way - people that want to be different are on the outside looking in in order to exercise their rights to freedom, until, that is, everyone decides to WAKE THE FUCK UP and see what it is we are allowing ourselves to be turned in to... a bunch of servile cattle at the hands of the older generations who don't understand the technology or the issues, yet have the power to decide how the people using it should be treated.
Most downloaders review their content after downloading - and, conceivably, might just delete any bogus seeded files - ending the circle of downloading crap content. Add a small functionality like 'r00d00d reviewed/approved content' and we could brand the content and create a 'web-of-trust' where people who know I do a good job of verifying my shared content, might download stuff I have reviewed knowing they will get a good file.
Remember, there are people behind the technology, folks...
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She ruined the 'mom and pop' environment at eBay, and now she's going to take down the monster at HP from inside it's own walls, one brick at a time.
Microsoft has been successful in doing exactly this with your Xboxes for years now. No Xbox Live for you Master Tickerer... you modded our Xbox and we don't stand for that. And, people continue to mod their xboxes and play with themselves while others go along with it so they can play in the 'sanitary community' called xbox live.
It'll always be that way - people that want to be different are on the outside looking in in order to exercise their rights to freedom, until, that is, everyone decides to WAKE THE FUCK UP and see what it is we are allowing ourselves to be turned in to... a bunch of servile cattle at the hands of the older generations who don't understand the technology or the issues, yet have the power to decide how the people using it should be treated.
There. I used to be a republican.
Most downloaders review their content after downloading - and, conceivably, might just delete any bogus seeded files - ending the circle of downloading crap content. Add a small functionality like 'r00d00d reviewed/approved content' and we could brand the content and create a 'web-of-trust' where people who know I do a good job of verifying my shared content, might download stuff I have reviewed knowing they will get a good file. Remember, there are people behind the technology, folks... r00td00d
Now we all know what happens to canucks when they don't have their sole creative outlet... NHL hockey.