1) Setup a puppet company 2) Infringe all you want 3) Profits!!! stay safe (safely stolen) from patent holders Wouldn't discovery expose a shell company like that? RICO covers that sort of thing, doesn't it?
1200 seems kind of low for the kind of community ebay's got.
So I wonder: are these 1200 users the kinds of people who post up an auction for a picture of a coveted item hoping to scam someone out of buku bucks? Are these users that took the money and ran? Or are these legitimate users caught in a genuine hack?
Can't watch the video, and the ebay PR rundown doesn't (and wouldn't) say, but since ebay happily protects fraudulent sellers and refuses to give defrauded buyers any means to recover their losses from the scammers it seems to me like this has potential to be a hacktivism move.
It's about policy, not about the specific cases of infringement. Let's hope congress knows how useful the Library of Congress is, and the value of having even copyrighted works available for non-commercial use.
It is because of you that there are GB caps and severe upload restrictions on my internet access. As I recall, upload restrictions and bandwidth caps predate Bittorrent by at least 5 years, if not more. Maybe you just need a better ISP: one that will maintain and upgrade their infrastructure as traffic grows instead of just blaming their customers.
and all programs using the "exe" suffix. so.... how did windows boot?
IIRC, the virus modified the registry entries which tell Windows how to handle.exe files. Booting up is fine. Once the system's up, every time explorer tries to launch an.exe, Windows wound up checking the registry for what it should do with the file. The registry modification removed the "magic" that told it that it's an executable.
I remember at work someone convincing me it was a good idea to copy the.exe registry class into another one, say,.myinitials, so if the.exe registry settings got clobbered I could always rename regedit.exe to regedit.myinitials and fix it.
What isn't fair, is voiding your warranty then crying foul when it breaks. It's one thing to void your warranty and crying that they won't fix your mistake. It's another thing altogether to void your warranty and have them reach out and break an otherwise 100% working phone.
Exactly. For just about every sector of commerce, people understand that your hardware property is YOUR property. Your Prius is YOURS, not Toyota's, and you can do what you see fit with that hardware.
Yet, for video games, music, and movies, the DMCA gives that industry the unique ability to call your modification of the hardware a CRIME because it bypasses copy protection. Being able to play backups and imports is basically the result of sidestepping copy protection.
But, you know, since I want to play a Japanese game I'm obviously a pirate. If I want to play only a backup of my game because the 360 might carve little concentric circles into it, I'm obviously a pirate.
That guy uses the word "product" more times in a minute than most people do all month. God, I hate that guy! Now I have one more reason. Could be worse. Instead of product, he could have said SKU.
I'm sure he'll get put in white-collar prison and not get mixed in with the gangbanging general population. He won't be taking the place of some murderer, but I do get your point about law enforcement and correction institutions' resources probably better served going after crimes with non-corporate victims.
That said, I sort of wished they threw more of the book at this guy for pirating this stuff. Mod chips have a legitimate use by enabling the owner of hardware to use it in the way they see fit. The homebrew community and those who enjoy the protection that backups provide should hold a zero-tolerance policy to those who would use those tools to enjoy materials for which they didn't pay.
My guess is that if the homebrew/backup communities weren't all driven underground thanks to the DMCA and corps with large legal budgets, they'd agree.
The only real relevance I see in this being news is that your game need not be morally repugnant in order for the wacky anti-game crowd to be opposed to it. Halo 3 doesn't feature blackjack or hookers or cop killing or anything.
I hear the claims of status-symbol this, and smug that thrown around Apple, but the truth is that normal, hard-working people, regardless of income level, use Macs, iPods and iPhones. I think the source of the status-symbol business is really design. Apple products are pretty. I think money has less to do with it than ugly vs pretty. I take it like the fact that no fat and greasy nerd likes the pretty boy jock that's popular with all the ladies.
I'll be the first to admit that with iPods being a lot of Apple's bread and butter these days didn't help that... especially when you have other less pretty, more functional, and more bang-for-the-buck products out there.
The jock goes to the party and ditches school, the nerd stays at home and builds the next killer app. In the end, one winds up being more valuable to the society but the other will always be thought of in better terms. It's almost like it's nature's way.
Ok..so anything that isn't in a pretty, professional package...is considered a possible bomb? Another question might be:
Ok..so anything that isn't in a pretty, professional package...is excluded from being considered a possible bomb?
Imagine if you were plunked down in a universe where all bombs were concealed to the point where if it's suspicious, but out in the open, it is not a bomb. Suppose in this universe you decide you need to kill people with a bomb. How better a way to conceal it, then, than in plain sight?
For how prevalent the Not-My-Problem invisibility field is for government workers, I'm glad the TSA won't automatically disqualify plain-sight suspiciousness.
Maybe in the future perfect bomb and weapon detection technology would be a reality. Where the security checkpoint is nothing more than walking casually though an archway. It ain't here yet, though, so, why not? It's not like breadboards are quickly becoming the latest in fashion.
And not one is going to promise not to enforce the DMCA, put people on the bench to rule against it, or back congressional candidates that will have it removed from law.
If none of the candidates can see the error of the many provisions of the DMCA that are detrimental to the citizenry, I can then easily assume they're just spouting whatever gibberish their political handlers taught them to pronounce correctly.
Anyone else slightly disturbed how how closely the copy in TFS follows the write up at Kotaku?
I mean, it links to Next-Gen which is fine, but if your summary lifts more than 50% of the phrases word-for-word, maybe you should be linking that, too.
With the exception of the iPod touch, this new round of iPods have had their upgrades feel kind of muted for me. Classic has a huge hard drive but no extra resolution to make storing files larger than 320x240 worthwhile. Nano has more physical volume but no additional memory. Shuffle didn't even get a price drop for the upcoming holiday season.
Feels like a stopgap measure, actually. Seems that the Apple Product Cycle has become two-pronged so they can double the sales boosts. One redesign cycle with minor technology improvements, and one upgrade cycle with technology improvements and very minor redesigns.
It is doubtful the criminals would know what to do a boot into linux...so, encrypt and protect your real work on the Linux side, and leave the windows part for them to log into when they steal it. IANALT (I am not a laptop thief), but, if I were to steal one, the first thing I'd do is a reformat/install of my favorite OS, after disconnecting the battery for a few days to take care of any CMOS passwords.
Not that the comedy of having a thief get all caught up with Bonzai Buddy is lost on me, though...
... basically solar powered iPod shuffles with atomic clocks... cheaper to support and modify since Sun stocks things like SATA drives... good to go to fly the new IIF birds. Is it that it's Tuesday and I've already had enough hassle to fill a week, or was anyone else thoroughly confused by TFS?
The insanity that surrounds anything tied to a president or president-hopeful blows my mind. Freedom is speech is good...just not when it's around my presidental campaign, speech, etc.? If the people feel the need to rally, rant, chant, boo, hold signs, or whatever... it should be allowed and accomodated. You know, I've always thought THAT would be a good opportunity for a potential presidental candidate to shine head-and-shoulders above his opponents. Welcoming criticism and demonstrations and the abundant application of free speech.
It would have been a class act for Kerry to have asked those officers to ease up on the guy. Pity.
Thus the ethical reason to allow 'piracy' for older games is lost, and therefore piracy of this kind should not be tolerated. I'd buy that reasoning if Nintendo was committed to releasing ALL games and exactly as they were. Tecmo Bowl, Waverace 64, and others have gotten the revisionism bug in them to avoid legal responsibilities of certain trademarks.
They've made it clear that it's still the original publishing company's responsibility to port them for VC, so don't expect to see, say, Joe and Mac or Arcana or Super Dodgeball. Other companies that are still around already make huge profits doing remakes on other platforms so don't expect to see Final Fantasy VI or Dragon Quest III or Mega Man. Even games that NoA never recouped localization costs for like Mother/Earthbound for NES and Star Tropics 2 aren't really on the fast-track to be made available and the only explanation for it is that, frankly, Nintendo really isn't that committed to it.
When you consider how large (absurdly large) the Nintendo back-catalog goes PLUS TurboGrafix/PCE PLUS Genesis PLUS (soon) Neo-Geo, VC selections are merely a pittance. An mere excuse to pull the rug out from the last moral leg emu players stand on.
For how much money they've made with the DS and Wii, there really isn't anything stopping them from releasing 50 games a week, buying off abandoned properties from the last remaining IP holders and paying off other companies to rerelease the old stuff.
I mean, it's not like other publishers produced their own cartridges. Nintendo already has at least one ROM dump for every game ever produced by their factories: prototypes and everything.
Besides, I have a copy of the original Zelda in cartridge form whose battery has long been dead. Why should I pay another $5 to play the game when I already have a license to run it?
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2) Infringe all you want
3) Profits!!! stay safe (safely stolen) from patent holders Wouldn't discovery expose a shell company like that? RICO covers that sort of thing, doesn't it?
Well, lawyers and the few surviving companies after the dust settles. Those smaller upstarts really get to be a nuisance, I imagine.
1200 seems kind of low for the kind of community ebay's got.
So I wonder: are these 1200 users the kinds of people who post up an auction for a picture of a coveted item hoping to scam someone out of buku bucks? Are these users that took the money and ran? Or are these legitimate users caught in a genuine hack?
Can't watch the video, and the ebay PR rundown doesn't (and wouldn't) say, but since ebay happily protects fraudulent sellers and refuses to give defrauded buyers any means to recover their losses from the scammers it seems to me like this has potential to be a hacktivism move.
No, wait, they won't care. It's DMCA 2.0 time.
That's fantastic news!
Now how about non-DRM Unbox downloads?
It's pretty well known that Apple gets a kickback of the charges collected by AT&T within the two year contract with an iPhone.
IIRC, the virus modified the registry entries which tell Windows how to handle
I remember at work someone convincing me it was a good idea to copy the
Exactly. For just about every sector of commerce, people understand that your hardware property is YOUR property. Your Prius is YOURS, not Toyota's, and you can do what you see fit with that hardware.
Yet, for video games, music, and movies, the DMCA gives that industry the unique ability to call your modification of the hardware a CRIME because it bypasses copy protection. Being able to play backups and imports is basically the result of sidestepping copy protection.
But, you know, since I want to play a Japanese game I'm obviously a pirate. If I want to play only a backup of my game because the 360 might carve little concentric circles into it, I'm obviously a pirate.
I'm sure he'll get put in white-collar prison and not get mixed in with the gangbanging general population. He won't be taking the place of some murderer, but I do get your point about law enforcement and correction institutions' resources probably better served going after crimes with non-corporate victims.
That said, I sort of wished they threw more of the book at this guy for pirating this stuff. Mod chips have a legitimate use by enabling the owner of hardware to use it in the way they see fit. The homebrew community and those who enjoy the protection that backups provide should hold a zero-tolerance policy to those who would use those tools to enjoy materials for which they didn't pay.
My guess is that if the homebrew/backup communities weren't all driven underground thanks to the DMCA and corps with large legal budgets, they'd agree.
The only real relevance I see in this being news is that your game need not be morally repugnant in order for the wacky anti-game crowd to be opposed to it. Halo 3 doesn't feature blackjack or hookers or cop killing or anything.
Next stop for the Thompson Train: Tetris.
I'll be the first to admit that with iPods being a lot of Apple's bread and butter these days didn't help that... especially when you have other less pretty, more functional, and more bang-for-the-buck products out there.
The jock goes to the party and ditches school, the nerd stays at home and builds the next killer app. In the end, one winds up being more valuable to the society but the other will always be thought of in better terms. It's almost like it's nature's way.
Ok..so anything that isn't in a pretty, professional package...is excluded from being considered a possible bomb?
Imagine if you were plunked down in a universe where all bombs were concealed to the point where if it's suspicious, but out in the open, it is not a bomb. Suppose in this universe you decide you need to kill people with a bomb. How better a way to conceal it, then, than in plain sight?
For how prevalent the Not-My-Problem invisibility field is for government workers, I'm glad the TSA won't automatically disqualify plain-sight suspiciousness.
Maybe in the future perfect bomb and weapon detection technology would be a reality. Where the security checkpoint is nothing more than walking casually though an archway. It ain't here yet, though, so, why not? It's not like breadboards are quickly becoming the latest in fashion.
But, how else am I going to enjoy my guilty pleasure of E! without the cover of subscribing to the "extended lineup"?
It's the cable equivalent of walking up to the rental counter with Super Slut Cum Fest #9 sandwiched between Howard the Duck and Sleepless in Seattle.
... just the stuff you've already seen aired on cable.
And not one is going to promise not to enforce the DMCA, put people on the bench to rule against it, or back congressional candidates that will have it removed from law.
If none of the candidates can see the error of the many provisions of the DMCA that are detrimental to the citizenry, I can then easily assume they're just spouting whatever gibberish their political handlers taught them to pronounce correctly.
Anyone else slightly disturbed how how closely the copy in TFS follows the write up at Kotaku?
I mean, it links to Next-Gen which is fine, but if your summary lifts more than 50% of the phrases word-for-word, maybe you should be linking that, too.
With the exception of the iPod touch, this new round of iPods have had their upgrades feel kind of muted for me. Classic has a huge hard drive but no extra resolution to make storing files larger than 320x240 worthwhile. Nano has more physical volume but no additional memory. Shuffle didn't even get a price drop for the upcoming holiday season.
Feels like a stopgap measure, actually. Seems that the Apple Product Cycle has become two-pronged so they can double the sales boosts. One redesign cycle with minor technology improvements, and one upgrade cycle with technology improvements and very minor redesigns.
Not that the comedy of having a thief get all caught up with Bonzai Buddy is lost on me, though...
It would have been a class act for Kerry to have asked those officers to ease up on the guy. Pity.
They've made it clear that it's still the original publishing company's responsibility to port them for VC, so don't expect to see, say, Joe and Mac or Arcana or Super Dodgeball. Other companies that are still around already make huge profits doing remakes on other platforms so don't expect to see Final Fantasy VI or Dragon Quest III or Mega Man. Even games that NoA never recouped localization costs for like Mother/Earthbound for NES and Star Tropics 2 aren't really on the fast-track to be made available and the only explanation for it is that, frankly, Nintendo really isn't that committed to it.
When you consider how large (absurdly large) the Nintendo back-catalog goes PLUS TurboGrafix/PCE PLUS Genesis PLUS (soon) Neo-Geo, VC selections are merely a pittance. An mere excuse to pull the rug out from the last moral leg emu players stand on.
For how much money they've made with the DS and Wii, there really isn't anything stopping them from releasing 50 games a week, buying off abandoned properties from the last remaining IP holders and paying off other companies to rerelease the old stuff.
I mean, it's not like other publishers produced their own cartridges. Nintendo already has at least one ROM dump for every game ever produced by their factories: prototypes and everything.
Besides, I have a copy of the original Zelda in cartridge form whose battery has long been dead. Why should I pay another $5 to play the game when I already have a license to run it?