Do you have ANY idea how many different players there are? You couldn't just include the firmware updates on the disc, to do that you'd end up releasing a $20 USD firmware update and leave the movie out!
Valve, huh? The company that revoked tons of L4D2 CD keys legitimately purchased because people found a way to purchase them from a cheaper market's store?
You better go re-read the bit where it says that all rights not explicitly stated in the constitution are reserved for the states. It was specifically designed to define only the controls on the federal government and the baseline rights given to the people - while still retaining the autonomy of the states themselves.
The Constitution says that anything not specifically provided for in the document is reserved for the state. Unless the Californian law is inconsistent with a provision of the Constitution, it's perfectly valid.
And I'm not even American. You should go back to civics class.
Actually, there is evidence it can be done with a retail device. The web page (under "Enterprise" - "Microsoft Exchange support" heading) says so, as does the MobileMe box.
Yet 30 seconds on the phone if you were a Google Apps customer and - BANG! - that email would be back under your control. I guess it's the "you get what you pay for" thing.
And yes, I do recognise that your personal info and email messages to datamine is in fact worth something (and therefore a form of payment) but I guess Google doesn't.
How is that permanent? Apple could decide to stop providing it "any minute now". Even if they weren't, it's a subscription service (and bloody expensive one at that).
Actually, pirating sends a damn better message than not buying/playing. Pirating says "You made a good game, which I want to play, but something in your system has made me not want to reward you." In most cases, that something is DRM. The other alternatives are usually "price," or something.
No, it tells them "I'm a cheap bastard, and don't want to pay for your product. Please make the DRM stronger so that I cannot succeed at this."
Well, that's what they hear anyway. It also happens to be true in a lot of cases.
Make good games for a reasonable price with nice extras for paying customers (things like achievements) and you'll find that your game sells fine.
Slashdot has already proven this is bullshit - whenever a company tries this, everyone bitches about the "greedy company trying to remove our first sale rights" and saying they're off to get it off TPB. If they try releasing for a decent price, everyone bitches about how there's no demo, so they're off to get it off TPB. If there is a trial, they say that the trial isn't enough to work out whether they want it, so they're off to get it off TPB. If it's free but ad supported, they say that their privacy is worth more than that, so they're off to get it off TPB.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Apache would be targeted like this?
Email addresses. These are worth an absolute ton on the black market - trust me when I say the attacker doesn't give a flying fuck about the passwords. Expect that any email address in Apache's database is now going to receive a lot of "cheap luxury watch", "very cheap soft" and "online meds" offers.
And many merchants specify that they will not accept Visa Electron cards (the type of card that is). Just as a merchant can specify they will not accept business cards, or debit cards, or prepaid cards. They can be pretty granular.
I'd suggest moving to a country where more than just the fucking account number is needed to direct debit a bank account (in NZ, a signed form sent in to the bank is required).
Anyone know how these multiple charges occur within the system? I would think it hard to write a billing system so it could accidentally charge people dozens of times.
Ask Dreamhost - the company that billed a few years in advance.
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Do you have ANY idea how many different players there are? You couldn't just include the firmware updates on the disc, to do that you'd end up releasing a $20 USD firmware update and leave the movie out!
If you're paying 1.5 to 3x more you're just a sucker.
Or you're in New Zealand. $50 per Blu Ray. And free DVD in the box? Fuck no! That's a DISNEY feature!
Oh, it's Orange Box, not L4D2. Same principle applies:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/10/25/1845228/Valve-Locking-Out-Gamers-Who-Buy-Orange-Box-Internationally
If by "illegitimate foreign retailer selling stolen keys" you mean Valve, then yes, you're quite correct.
Valve, huh? The company that revoked tons of L4D2 CD keys legitimately purchased because people found a way to purchase them from a cheaper market's store?
Yeah, fuck Valve.
You better go re-read the bit where it says that all rights not explicitly stated in the constitution are reserved for the states. It was specifically designed to define only the controls on the federal government and the baseline rights given to the people - while still retaining the autonomy of the states themselves.
Dumbass.
The Constitution says that anything not specifically provided for in the document is reserved for the state. Unless the Californian law is inconsistent with a provision of the Constitution, it's perfectly valid.
And I'm not even American. You should go back to civics class.
Westpac goes one step further, and requires between eight and twenty characters. Also case insensitive.
They also strongly discourage the use of software like Keepass.
The EULA pages are a good candidate.
You already did. It's called Australia.
the unannounced OS 4.0 on it was very sensitive.
No it isn't, it's buggy as hell, with half the features missing. Also, "Find My iPhone" doesn't work on it.
Actually, there is evidence it can be done with a retail device. The web page (under "Enterprise" - "Microsoft Exchange support" heading) says so, as does the MobileMe box.
No puppies were harmed in the making of this non-story.
No, but an engineer was.
Easy.
Meta.
Yet 30 seconds on the phone if you were a Google Apps customer and - BANG! - that email would be back under your control. I guess it's the "you get what you pay for" thing.
And yes, I do recognise that your personal info and email messages to datamine is in fact worth something (and therefore a form of payment) but I guess Google doesn't.
How is that permanent? Apple could decide to stop providing it "any minute now". Even if they weren't, it's a subscription service (and bloody expensive one at that).
It was banned outright because Activision missed ONE Swastika.
Actually, pirating sends a damn better message than not buying/playing. Pirating says "You made a good game, which I want to play, but something in your system has made me not want to reward you." In most cases, that something is DRM. The other alternatives are usually "price," or something.
No, it tells them "I'm a cheap bastard, and don't want to pay for your product. Please make the DRM stronger so that I cannot succeed at this."
Well, that's what they hear anyway. It also happens to be true in a lot of cases.
Make good games for a reasonable price with nice extras for paying customers (things like achievements) and you'll find that your game sells fine.
Slashdot has already proven this is bullshit - whenever a company tries this, everyone bitches about the "greedy company trying to remove our first sale rights" and saying they're off to get it off TPB. If they try releasing for a decent price, everyone bitches about how there's no demo, so they're off to get it off TPB. If there is a trial, they say that the trial isn't enough to work out whether they want it, so they're off to get it off TPB. If it's free but ad supported, they say that their privacy is worth more than that, so they're off to get it off TPB.
It's about rationalising piracy, nothing else.
And amazingly, if you insert a Blizzard disc into a Mac, you don't get your Mac telling you "what's an .EXE?"
And you don't get directed to their store either to purchase the separate Mac version (*cough* EA)
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Apache would be targeted like this?
Email addresses. These are worth an absolute ton on the black market - trust me when I say the attacker doesn't give a flying fuck about the passwords. Expect that any email address in Apache's database is now going to receive a lot of "cheap luxury watch", "very cheap soft" and "online meds" offers.
If you can, change your email address now.
And many merchants specify that they will not accept Visa Electron cards (the type of card that is). Just as a merchant can specify they will not accept business cards, or debit cards, or prepaid cards. They can be pretty granular.
I'd suggest moving to a country where more than just the fucking account number is needed to direct debit a bank account (in NZ, a signed form sent in to the bank is required).
Screw the bank being decent, I'm more amazed that 1&1 refunded you! Did you kidnap their VP's daughter or something?
Anyone know how these multiple charges occur within the system? I would think it hard to write a billing system so it could accidentally charge people dozens of times.
Ask Dreamhost - the company that billed a few years in advance.
I don't detect malice, though.
Watch it again then. And this time, turn on the sound. Or at least read the subtitles.