Surely your example proves the need for them to be more aggressive legally rather than more laid back? Bad contract negotiation and being to relaxed and trusting ultimately cost them.
Besides which, WAR, although not huge, is profitable and they're making massive amounts off of the Dawn of War franchise. They've a massive amount of IP to turn into games. Who wouldn't want to see a modern version of Space Hulk with online co-op?
They're scanning and posting Games Workshop's art, judging from the article, it's all the art relating to games like Space Hulk. They've revived Space Hulk in the past, it's not unthinkable they'll revive it again. Regardless, they're an active company, you don't have the automatic right to almost completely reproduce their work.
They rely on stuff like codexes and boxed games for a large portion of their income. Given the traditional fantasy nature of their products, it's incredibly important they protect their IPs and trademarks.
Think they're over-reacting? Look at Warcraft. That was originally going to be a Warhammer game. Their legal team fell asleep on the job, didn't sign a properly binding agreement and Blizzard decided that they'd just remove the GW branding, give the game a slightly different name and keep all the royalties. To rub salt into the wound, they then released Starcraft which again was more than slightly familiar to GW fans.
Actually in the UK you have zero rights to create archive or backup copies of copyrighted media, at least you used to, this may have changed. There was actually a push by music companies to give you the right for a backup copy ( on the basis that a single company suing for a tape/mp3 copy to play in a car stereo would make them all look incredibly bad and force a much more liberal fair use law).
I believe UK law permits one workable version of anything you've a licence for (you can copy a SNES cart but you have to destroy the original and you can't circumvent copy protection measures). Also allows for recordings of broadcasts, provided you delete them after viewing or a reasonable time period.
The US is requesting extradition under a treaty that the UK has signed but not the US. It's yet another example of Tony Blair being Bush's lapdog that we've been saddled with.
If Obama really wanted to distance himself from bush's policies, he'd pardon McKinnon. This extradition is doing nothing but stirring up anti-American feelings in the UK whilst being ridiculed in the US.
Except sometimes a parent wouldn't have the heart to do this and would raise the deformed child to be a powerful warrior, promising that he will one day be able to be a spartan.
Sadly this was not to be as his deformities would make him unsuitable to join their ranks. In a fit of self loathing he would then lead the Spartan's enemies down a hidden route so the Spartans would be flanked and killed.
At least that is what I was led to believe by a highly accurate documentary I watched.
I can download CCCP and after 30 seconds, I can play almost any video file with no configuration required. Another 20 seconds in MPC-HC and I can completely eliminate screen tearing in TV Out. Then I never have to worry about deciding on a GUI, worrying about certain combinations of container and subtitle format not playing together and any sound issues at all.
To say ripping and playing a blu ray at the moment is a bit inelegant is an understatement. It simply doesn't compare to popping a disc in and having the disc play almost instantly.
Using Linux as a HTPC box involves lots of little extra hurdles or putting up with minor glitches. With Windows I can sit down and enjoy a game or film without needing to worry about 'preparing' them beforehand.
There are some big problems anime fans will have with using Linux: Windows boxes are more capable media players. I generally prefer Zoomplayer and MPC-HC to stuff like VLC (although this is naturally personal preference) but a big issue is the lack of Blu Ray playing capability under Linux.
There's also gaming, with the exception of Onscript based games, very few visual novels play well with Linux and most Tohou/doujin shooters are Windows only.
He's not going after the bloggers, he's going after news aggregators who automatically rip the opening paragraph or two from every story on the site. That's far more of a grey area than just quoting Fox in the middle of an article or editorial.
What good is robots.txt if a site that crawls pages ignoring the rules set is then indexed by google?
I'd be willing to bet that if Fox News had a blanket ban on bots in the robots.txt, putting the opening sentence of a Fox News story into google would still return dozens of news sites that had ripped the first paragraph or two from their site.
The number of little annoyances I have with the GIMP UI are immense.
Why does closing the toolbox close the whole program?
Why does it fail to minimise/restore in a non-glitchy way in XP?
Odd menu choices (why is greyscale/indexed colour/etc in mode rather than colour?).
Opening a single image to edit. You have to click the close button twice to close GIMP (but only if it's the last open window).
There's nothing glaring wrong with GIMP, it's just all these minor interface issues all add up and make the program much more of a chore to use than it needs to be.
You can also argue that the focus on getting as much money as possible through fair means or foul to the detriment of others is typical of the culture of the countries that Scientology is most popular in.
If a woman doesn't marry someone deemed suitable for her (heaven forbid it's a non-muslim), her whole family can turn against her. They don't do a "well funded smear campaign". They kill her and her partner, often torturing beforehand.
Not to mention there are countries where converting to a religion from Islam is a crime.
Then there's the child abuse in Catholicism that the church went all out to hush up, the caste system in Hinduism etc.
And yet he successfully highlighted the issue of questionable ID checks around the palace and got it published in almost all the media without causing any pain or distress to anyone other than the embarrassed security staff. All the police said was that lives were never in danger at that party.
He achieved this through (largely) ethical methods. He could have possibly gone in with a bomb strapped to his chest, detonated it and sent a very strong message to security staff. However he didn't.
Using your comparison. He would have acheived acceptable results just abusing the system to give himself 6c. Instead he chose to strap a bomb to his chest and steal thousands, causing real hurt to victims. Just like the palace guests aren't to blame for the security, the businesses hurt by this aren't to blame for Bing's lack of security.
Wow. So you're saying that someone who is in possession of a computer with child porn shouldn't be brought to trial on possession of child porn charges? That someone who not only admits to doing something, but posts credible, detailed information on how he achieved it doesn't deserve to be brought to trial?
In case you didn't notice, both of these examples are incredibly damning evidence, just as seeing someone over a corpse with a knife and blood on his hands is pretty damning too.
You don't seem to understand the point of trials. Trials happen when there is convincing evidence that on it's own, if you didn't defend yourself, would be enough to find you guilty of a crime. The presumption of innocence at that point is irrelevant because the evidence trumps the presumption. For a case to get to court, there is a minimum burden of proof. Hence cases getting dismissed by judges when there isn't enough proof.
The purpose of a trial is to provide defendants a chance to show the evidence against him doesn't prove guilt.
Again, owning up does not stop it being a crime. I could send a letter to the bank saying they have problems with their security set up, come back a few days later, rob them, send a letter telling them I had indeed robbed them. Do you really think I wouldn't get arrested? Even if I went back a few days and gave them their money back I'd still be arrested.
Inaction by the victim is not permission, an unlocked door is not permission. This is an unauthorised attempt to abuse a system to knowingly trick someone out of their money. It is fraud.
There's a big difference between "available for withdrawal" and actually withdrawn. I doubt money goes from Bing accounts to bank accounts without verification. Especially if said money has come from promotions.
There's also a big difference between defrauding a few c as a proof of concept then going on to defraud a few thousand once you're sure it works. This guy will very likely go to jail if Microsoft prosecute.
Admitting a crime does not absolve you of it. In the first example, it's still technically a crime, it's just not worth anybodies time to report and prosecute it.
This guy has been seriously stupid. Not only is it clearly fraud, he's also up for conspiracy to defraud charges for telling other people how to do this.
It's got to be Red/Green for the glasses, only tech which will be universal for all TVs.
Besides which, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with the "greatest ever 3D moments". Any 'greatest' list that includes Jaws 3(D) and the American produced Dr Who special really doesn't deserve to exist.
Still, I love Udo Kier so I'll probably watch Flesh for Frankenstein (and once against try to place his accent)
Remote Shell trojan (which despite the name is self replicating and therefore a virus). Designed specifically to be spread by users running trustworthy executables without the need for admin rights. And yes, it did infect a number of systems 'in the wild'
If they misidentify something as pirated, phone them up or post on their forums. They even have a utility that can help identify why it's flagged up as pirated.
You are also perfectly able to reject the EULA and not install updates that do so. Security updates do not alter the EULA (unless it's part of a service pack or installs new software)
Ninokuni will be on a 4gigabit (512mb) cart and will fill it to the brim.
The DS has had its hardware maxed out for years (thanks to it having a hard limit on how many polygons it can display and tiny texture memory). The hardware was fairly weak at launch let alone now.
With a significant spec boost that the DS2 is looking to receive from the ARM based ION platform rumoured, developers will easily match the 300mb-1.5gigs that most full retail PSP downloads take up.
A 3G chip adds manufacturing cost, won't play well in all countries (look at how the kindle has had functionality removed outside the US), can be incredibly slow depending on the network and location, will be incredibly expensive for the 500mb+ downloads that will probably make up DS2 games...
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Space Hulk is currently sold out. The reason it's dropped down the charts is because people can't buy it. I'd say the game is doing fine.
Surely your example proves the need for them to be more aggressive legally rather than more laid back? Bad contract negotiation and being to relaxed and trusting ultimately cost them.
Besides which, WAR, although not huge, is profitable and they're making massive amounts off of the Dawn of War franchise. They've a massive amount of IP to turn into games. Who wouldn't want to see a modern version of Space Hulk with online co-op?
Fair use is a legal right.
This is not fair use.
They're scanning and posting Games Workshop's art, judging from the article, it's all the art relating to games like Space Hulk. They've revived Space Hulk in the past, it's not unthinkable they'll revive it again. Regardless, they're an active company, you don't have the automatic right to almost completely reproduce their work.
They rely on stuff like codexes and boxed games for a large portion of their income. Given the traditional fantasy nature of their products, it's incredibly important they protect their IPs and trademarks.
Think they're over-reacting? Look at Warcraft. That was originally going to be a Warhammer game. Their legal team fell asleep on the job, didn't sign a properly binding agreement and Blizzard decided that they'd just remove the GW branding, give the game a slightly different name and keep all the royalties. To rub salt into the wound, they then released Starcraft which again was more than slightly familiar to GW fans.
Actually in the UK you have zero rights to create archive or backup copies of copyrighted media, at least you used to, this may have changed. There was actually a push by music companies to give you the right for a backup copy ( on the basis that a single company suing for a tape/mp3 copy to play in a car stereo would make them all look incredibly bad and force a much more liberal fair use law).
I believe UK law permits one workable version of anything you've a licence for (you can copy a SNES cart but you have to destroy the original and you can't circumvent copy protection measures). Also allows for recordings of broadcasts, provided you delete them after viewing or a reasonable time period.
The US is requesting extradition under a treaty that the UK has signed but not the US. It's yet another example of Tony Blair being Bush's lapdog that we've been saddled with.
If Obama really wanted to distance himself from bush's policies, he'd pardon McKinnon. This extradition is doing nothing but stirring up anti-American feelings in the UK whilst being ridiculed in the US.
Except sometimes a parent wouldn't have the heart to do this and would raise the deformed child to be a powerful warrior, promising that he will one day be able to be a spartan.
Sadly this was not to be as his deformities would make him unsuitable to join their ranks. In a fit of self loathing he would then lead the Spartan's enemies down a hidden route so the Spartans would be flanked and killed.
At least that is what I was led to believe by a highly accurate documentary I watched.
I can download CCCP and after 30 seconds, I can play almost any video file with no configuration required. Another 20 seconds in MPC-HC and I can completely eliminate screen tearing in TV Out. Then I never have to worry about deciding on a GUI, worrying about certain combinations of container and subtitle format not playing together and any sound issues at all.
To say ripping and playing a blu ray at the moment is a bit inelegant is an understatement. It simply doesn't compare to popping a disc in and having the disc play almost instantly.
Using Linux as a HTPC box involves lots of little extra hurdles or putting up with minor glitches. With Windows I can sit down and enjoy a game or film without needing to worry about 'preparing' them beforehand.
There are some big problems anime fans will have with using Linux: Windows boxes are more capable media players. I generally prefer Zoomplayer and MPC-HC to stuff like VLC (although this is naturally personal preference) but a big issue is the lack of Blu Ray playing capability under Linux.
There's also gaming, with the exception of Onscript based games, very few visual novels play well with Linux and most Tohou/doujin shooters are Windows only.
Would just like to add to that The Tower of London and The London Dungeons.
He's not going after the bloggers, he's going after news aggregators who automatically rip the opening paragraph or two from every story on the site. That's far more of a grey area than just quoting Fox in the middle of an article or editorial.
What good is robots.txt if a site that crawls pages ignoring the rules set is then indexed by google?
I'd be willing to bet that if Fox News had a blanket ban on bots in the robots.txt, putting the opening sentence of a Fox News story into google would still return dozens of news sites that had ripped the first paragraph or two from their site.
The number of little annoyances I have with the GIMP UI are immense.
Why does closing the toolbox close the whole program?
Why does it fail to minimise/restore in a non-glitchy way in XP?
Odd menu choices (why is greyscale/indexed colour/etc in mode rather than colour?).
Opening a single image to edit. You have to click the close button twice to close GIMP (but only if it's the last open window).
There's nothing glaring wrong with GIMP, it's just all these minor interface issues all add up and make the program much more of a chore to use than it needs to be.
You can also argue that the focus on getting as much money as possible through fair means or foul to the detriment of others is typical of the culture of the countries that Scientology is most popular in.
Arranged marriages in Islam.
If a woman doesn't marry someone deemed suitable for her (heaven forbid it's a non-muslim), her whole family can turn against her. They don't do a "well funded smear campaign". They kill her and her partner, often torturing beforehand.
Not to mention there are countries where converting to a religion from Islam is a crime.
Then there's the child abuse in Catholicism that the church went all out to hush up, the caste system in Hinduism etc.
And yet he successfully highlighted the issue of questionable ID checks around the palace and got it published in almost all the media without causing any pain or distress to anyone other than the embarrassed security staff. All the police said was that lives were never in danger at that party.
He achieved this through (largely) ethical methods. He could have possibly gone in with a bomb strapped to his chest, detonated it and sent a very strong message to security staff. However he didn't.
Using your comparison. He would have acheived acceptable results just abusing the system to give himself 6c. Instead he chose to strap a bomb to his chest and steal thousands, causing real hurt to victims. Just like the palace guests aren't to blame for the security, the businesses hurt by this aren't to blame for Bing's lack of security.
Wow. So you're saying that someone who is in possession of a computer with child porn shouldn't be brought to trial on possession of child porn charges? That someone who not only admits to doing something, but posts credible, detailed information on how he achieved it doesn't deserve to be brought to trial?
In case you didn't notice, both of these examples are incredibly damning evidence, just as seeing someone over a corpse with a knife and blood on his hands is pretty damning too.
You don't seem to understand the point of trials. Trials happen when there is convincing evidence that on it's own, if you didn't defend yourself, would be enough to find you guilty of a crime. The presumption of innocence at that point is irrelevant because the evidence trumps the presumption. For a case to get to court, there is a minimum burden of proof. Hence cases getting dismissed by judges when there isn't enough proof. The purpose of a trial is to provide defendants a chance to show the evidence against him doesn't prove guilt.
Again, owning up does not stop it being a crime. I could send a letter to the bank saying they have problems with their security set up, come back a few days later, rob them, send a letter telling them I had indeed robbed them. Do you really think I wouldn't get arrested? Even if I went back a few days and gave them their money back I'd still be arrested.
Inaction by the victim is not permission, an unlocked door is not permission. This is an unauthorised attempt to abuse a system to knowingly trick someone out of their money. It is fraud.
There's a big difference between "available for withdrawal" and actually withdrawn. I doubt money goes from Bing accounts to bank accounts without verification. Especially if said money has come from promotions.
There's also a big difference between defrauding a few c as a proof of concept then going on to defraud a few thousand once you're sure it works. This guy will very likely go to jail if Microsoft prosecute.
Admitting a crime does not absolve you of it. In the first example, it's still technically a crime, it's just not worth anybodies time to report and prosecute it.
This guy has been seriously stupid. Not only is it clearly fraud, he's also up for conspiracy to defraud charges for telling other people how to do this.
It's got to be Red/Green for the glasses, only tech which will be universal for all TVs.
Besides which, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with the "greatest ever 3D moments". Any 'greatest' list that includes Jaws 3(D) and the American produced Dr Who special really doesn't deserve to exist.
Still, I love Udo Kier so I'll probably watch Flesh for Frankenstein (and once against try to place his accent)
Remote Shell trojan (which despite the name is self replicating and therefore a virus). Designed specifically to be spread by users running trustworthy executables without the need for admin rights. And yes, it did infect a number of systems 'in the wild'
If they misidentify something as pirated, phone them up or post on their forums. They even have a utility that can help identify why it's flagged up as pirated.
You are also perfectly able to reject the EULA and not install updates that do so. Security updates do not alter the EULA (unless it's part of a service pack or installs new software)
FUD much? Goes to show that you can type anything that bashes MS and it'll give you a +5.
WGA is nagware, it doesn't "hold your data hostage". You can even minimise it to the notification area and suppress the messages.
Real false positives are rare, most of them are a case of sharing the licence key or disreputable OEMs ripping you off.
Oh and MS sacrifice kittens to their pagan gods!
Yes?
Ninokuni will be on a 4gigabit (512mb) cart and will fill it to the brim.
The DS has had its hardware maxed out for years (thanks to it having a hard limit on how many polygons it can display and tiny texture memory). The hardware was fairly weak at launch let alone now.
With a significant spec boost that the DS2 is looking to receive from the ARM based ION platform rumoured, developers will easily match the 300mb-1.5gigs that most full retail PSP downloads take up.
A 3G chip adds manufacturing cost, won't play well in all countries (look at how the kindle has had functionality removed outside the US), can be incredibly slow depending on the network and location, will be incredibly expensive for the 500mb+ downloads that will probably make up DS2 games...