If you think that's notable, you should have seen the Tribes 1 & 2 modding communies. They turned a sci-fi FPS with jetpacks and armor into everything from a virtual life-size lego set (Construction mod) to a online fantasy game (TribesRPG).
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.
Don't worry. The way those prefrences work is by removing stylesheets. The contest is to redesign the stylesheets. You won't be affected because you won't load them anyways.
My friends and I something similar. Fortunately all they did was block our proxys. Too bad, because that link you gave is also blocked.
But what we did is cause for punishment. Circumventing the filters and allowing others to do so violates the agreement we signed that allows us to use the computers. But it is definitely not reason for suspension or expulsion.
I've never understood why they do that. I don't know if it still does, but last time I checked, several sections of the Nintendo website including the online store required you to use IE. Forcing your customers to use your competitor's products before they can even buy yours doesn't really seem like a good idea to me.
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and various laws. Our copyright law allows fair use like format shifting and use of excerpts, but DRM blocks any sort of copying and it's illegal to break it.
Few people have the resources or even the courage to do something like this. Thank you, protestors, for getting peoples' attention and informing them of the issue.
Not a big problem, you just have to use it for something that doesn't need a quick focus. This other comment talks about optimizing solar panels. Since the sun takes a whole twelve hours to move accross the sky, they don't need to change very fast.
You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
Previously, all of those were illegal, under all conditions, unless you paid someone lots of money.
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The Microsoft patent article you linked to:
Creating a surprise twist in the portable music wars, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application to patent its method of using hierarchical menus to navigate through the iPod's contents.
The basis for the denial: A similar method outlined in a Microsoft researcher's patent application, filed after the iPod was introduced but before Apple sought its own patent.
Everybody who does anything is vulnerable to this kind of attack, and the only way they can realistically defend themselves is to have a large patent library of thier own to countersue. Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big, but all they're doing is letting large companies fight while squashing smaller competitors.
My logic is that as HD video slows down the internet, the incentive to use the internet to watch this kind of stuff will diminish, thus alleviating the pressure.
Have you heard the complaints about World of Warcraft? There are enormous queues to even join a game, and then it's almost unplayable due to lag and you'll probably time-out from the server in fifteen minutes anyways.
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The brown reminds me of the old amber monochrome displays of yore. :)
Is it free karma day?
If you think that's notable, you should have seen the Tribes 1 & 2 modding communies. They turned a sci-fi FPS with jetpacks and armor into everything from a virtual life-size lego set (Construction mod) to a online fantasy game (TribesRPG).
Why is this modded Troll? Offtopic, maybe, but not Troll.
Credit where credit is due.
Agreed. We need a "+1, I Love You" moderation.
I'm not sure if I should laugh, cry, or shoot the president.
Don't worry. The way those prefrences work is by removing stylesheets. The contest is to redesign the stylesheets. You won't be affected because you won't load them anyways.
I'd take your word for it, considering how much time you spend chatting online with preteen girls/FBI agents.
(On a slightly related note, the captcha for this message says "pregnant".)
Now put two of them in SLI :)
Nope.
My friends and I something similar. Fortunately all they did was block our proxys. Too bad, because that link you gave is also blocked.
But what we did is cause for punishment. Circumventing the filters and allowing others to do so violates the agreement we signed that allows us to use the computers. But it is definitely not reason for suspension or expulsion.
With a $600 pricetag on thier next console, I get the feeling that will change quickly.
I've never understood why they do that. I don't know if it still does, but last time I checked, several sections of the Nintendo website including the online store required you to use IE. Forcing your customers to use your competitor's products before they can even buy yours doesn't really seem like a good idea to me.
Careful! Talk like that can bring the *AAs knocking at your door!
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If you don't watch out you might even find yourself the owner of a brand new patent
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and various laws. Our copyright law allows fair use like format shifting and use of excerpts, but DRM blocks any sort of copying and it's illegal to break it.
Few people have the resources or even the courage to do something like this. Thank you, protestors, for getting peoples' attention and informing them of the issue.
Not a big problem, you just have to use it for something that doesn't need a quick focus. This other comment talks about optimizing solar panels. Since the sun takes a whole twelve hours to move accross the sky, they don't need to change very fast.
Everybody who does anything is vulnerable to this kind of attack, and the only way they can realistically defend themselves is to have a large patent library of thier own to countersue. Patents are supposed to help small inventors make it big, but all they're doing is letting large companies fight while squashing smaller competitors.
And people are still paying for it.