Actually, they wanted the information to attempt to completely take down youtube.
As they wanted to identify Youtube employees as uploaders of copyrighted content, youtube would lose it's ISP Safeharbor granted to them based on the DMCA ISP Safeharbor rules about illegal or copyrighted content on ISP's servers (they are not responsible for it, and do not have to proactively search for it).
If they would lose that safeharbor clause they would be gone within weeks.
Also they stated they weren't planning on going after individual users, but weren't going to rule it out..... Sound familiar? RIAA!!!!.
The issue is, they are required by law to keep the information for 7 years. Not something you can get around.
As they are a US based profit-seeking company.
Flawless, then you complain about the video quality and codecs, sounds truly flawless to me.
Having your save files not save, having it crash in the middle of cut scenes or boss fights, due to a codec error or a memory dump trace error. Having the music lock up because the port was terrible, and have an annoying chirp play over and over until you can get to a place to save again and close and reopen the game to get it to quit.
That's what I thought as well, and if this game requires install how much of an install? Especially if this is a 5-10 disk DVD ordeal on the xbox people are going to get pissy about it. Because OMG I a lost a disk, OMG my disk 7 is scratched, OMG, my xbox drive died from all the disk swapping....
Yes, the drives in the xbox's do have issues.
Did you ever play the PC versions of the Final Fantasy Games? They were a travesty, they crashed all the time. The drivers and support were a joke. The video codecs they used to play some of the videos and cut scenes didn't come with the game....
And the PC games do not work for crap on current hardware. The PS games work in the backwards compatible PS3 and PS2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
Yes, Exactly!!!
Blu-Ray may be Sony's baby but it's backed by some hefty friends. The specifications is java based which means it's malleable and will most likely change over time, all blueray players should be firmware update able. That's in the specification.
The reason why BlueRay won is because of the 5 million PS3's sold to date in the US and 13.8 million PS3's sold worldwide.
Add that to the total of other Blue Ray players sold to date and you will probably see a rather dominating market share in the HD-video disk market.
Also the PS3 will support most of the media center, streaming media, and download processes that may be in competition with Blue Ray. It's for most intents and purposes a media center computer.
Public support or not, protection of privacy and protection from illegal seizure are protected rights.
It's a sick sad world we live in and even if this guy was caught with whatever illegal stuff, if it was uncovered illegally he cannot be tried for it. (whatever he had probably wasn't illegal, just the media spinning it whatever way they want to sensationalize the story)
Lock stock and barrel searchs of someones laptop or other electronic device based on that it "could contain" illegal materials, is about a hollow a reason to prosecute someone that "makes available" copy righted content.
They (the privacy violators) should need a reasonable suspicion to search, or a search warrant, or all evidences acquired will be subject to the "exclusionary rule".
The more I read, the more this world is turning into 1984.
Yea the fact that they didn't mention anything about a price cut leaves me a little leery about this. I understand the phone company probably subsidizes the phone, but seems like too big of a change to be just subsidization.
I am gonna get bad karma'd for this, but this is pretty much the way I see this.
This is Dell. Dell is highly visible to those in the open market and to those that do not really already own a computer.
And this isn't a Celeron processor. This is an Atom processor. (new exciting and nicely powerful).
Asus let's face it is a boutique style electronics and computer manufacturer. Dell has their hands in every honey pot and market available to them.
This will most likely be available via retail stores, Best Buy etc, instead of online only or Boutique electronics/Computer stores. Anyone that shops, will be able to see these and this is something that people will be able to put their hands on and say "ohhh this is something that I could handle to use, and drag around all the time". (This is the way most lay people buy computers, seriously people like to touch things before they buy them, they're weird =P ).
Other ultraportables were expensive because the smaller you got the more you paid for the premium size (mac book air, hp and dell high end ultraportables).
Not to lend any credence to your claim, but EULA's have a bad history in courts, because they are associated with state law. Aren't really contracts that one has to conscionable of to sign and document their understanding thereof and it so happens that many of them get over turned in court.
Psystar/Open Computing is reselling a full (read: fully-licesned) copy of MacOSX Leopard. They are then preinstalling it onto the system, telling you that they do modifications, and telling you that the copy is no longer under warranty. In addition, the courts have been moving in the direction of saying EULA's are not necessarily contractual, because of the low barrier of people to click "I Accept", weakening any potential Apple case.
To be fair, DMCA is vague on modifying software for personal use, and violating license, but only from the perspective of "taking away revenue". In this case, Apple is getting attributed as creating the software, and sells a retail copy of Leopard every time Psystar/Open Computing sells one to buyers.
What it boils down to is that running Leopard on a machine that Apple did not make violates the EULA. EULA's are largely NOT legally enforceable, and in those states where they are the degree to which they are varies widely. EULA's are not active contracts, and are largely invalid because you cannot read them in entirety (or at all usually) on the packaging before making your purchase, leaving you vulnerable to stipulations that were unknown at the time of purchase. EULA's are legally weak, all but entirely unenforceable, and would be outrageously expensive to attempt to enforce on any type of broad scale.
Basically I think Apple really would have to pay to play this game that it might lose. EULA's are largely flawed and usually unenforceable. Will be interesting to see what Apple does, if not nothing.
The way this works out is that they want to be able to Label systems as Game or Game Ultimate if they meet or exceed certain specifications.
Kinda like the way Microsoft labeled systems as "vista ready".
This really isn't a standardization, they are looking to be able to set customers expectations via a labeling system, so that the customer will have a good idea what they are getting before they get it out of the box.
AoC plays much like Guildwars did. It's terribly linear, and boring. It had some potential but it fell apart as development went along.
It will probably pull more than Guildwars did, but still won't be the mega-hit that WoW was.
Warhammer still holds some potential but it has very stiff competition.
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I love how you got modded down for this... This is a great question... It seems that this sort of EULA is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionable This is the reason.
Shrink Wrap Licenses are a weird issue, most of them if tried are found to be not legally binding...
See I had the opposite side of the spectrum, I love the game, but it was a terrible botch job port.
Badly executed, in my experience.
Actually, they wanted the information to attempt to completely take down youtube.
As they wanted to identify Youtube employees as uploaders of copyrighted content, youtube would lose it's ISP Safeharbor granted to them based on the DMCA ISP Safeharbor rules about illegal or copyrighted content on ISP's servers (they are not responsible for it, and do not have to proactively search for it).
If they would lose that safeharbor clause they would be gone within weeks.
Also they stated they weren't planning on going after individual users, but weren't going to rule it out..... Sound familiar? RIAA!!!!.
The issue is, they are required by law to keep the information for 7 years. Not something you can get around. As they are a US based profit-seeking company.
Flawless, then you complain about the video quality and codecs, sounds truly flawless to me.
Having your save files not save, having it crash in the middle of cut scenes or boss fights, due to a codec error or a memory dump trace error. Having the music lock up because the port was terrible, and have an annoying chirp play over and over until you can get to a place to save again and close and reopen the game to get it to quit.
Flawless!
That's what I thought as well, and if this game requires install how much of an install? Especially if this is a 5-10 disk DVD ordeal on the xbox people are going to get pissy about it. Because OMG I a lost a disk, OMG my disk 7 is scratched, OMG, my xbox drive died from all the disk swapping....
Yes, the drives in the xbox's do have issues.
Did you ever play the PC versions of the Final Fantasy Games? They were a travesty, they crashed all the time. The drivers and support were a joke. The video codecs they used to play some of the videos and cut scenes didn't come with the game.... And the PC games do not work for crap on current hardware. The PS games work in the backwards compatible PS3 and PS2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association Yes, Exactly!!! Blu-Ray may be Sony's baby but it's backed by some hefty friends. The specifications is java based which means it's malleable and will most likely change over time, all blueray players should be firmware update able. That's in the specification.
The reason why BlueRay won is because of the 5 million PS3's sold to date in the US and 13.8 million PS3's sold worldwide. Add that to the total of other Blue Ray players sold to date and you will probably see a rather dominating market share in the HD-video disk market. Also the PS3 will support most of the media center, streaming media, and download processes that may be in competition with Blue Ray. It's for most intents and purposes a media center computer.
mmmm Wall-E mediocre, slightly fun, environmentalist propaganda.
yay.
Public support or not, protection of privacy and protection from illegal seizure are protected rights.
It's a sick sad world we live in and even if this guy was caught with whatever illegal stuff, if it was uncovered illegally he cannot be tried for it. (whatever he had probably wasn't illegal, just the media spinning it whatever way they want to sensationalize the story)
Lock stock and barrel searchs of someones laptop or other electronic device based on that it "could contain" illegal materials, is about a hollow a reason to prosecute someone that "makes available" copy righted content.
They (the privacy violators) should need a reasonable suspicion to search, or a search warrant, or all evidences acquired will be subject to the "exclusionary rule".
The more I read, the more this world is turning into 1984.
Yea the fact that they didn't mention anything about a price cut leaves me a little leery about this. I understand the phone company probably subsidizes the phone, but seems like too big of a change to be just subsidization.
Time to wait for an update from apple.
I am gonna get bad karma'd for this, but this is pretty much the way I see this.
This is Dell. Dell is highly visible to those in the open market and to those that do not really already own a computer.
And this isn't a Celeron processor. This is an Atom processor. (new exciting and nicely powerful).
Asus let's face it is a boutique style electronics and computer manufacturer. Dell has their hands in every honey pot and market available to them.
This will most likely be available via retail stores, Best Buy etc, instead of online only or Boutique electronics/Computer stores. Anyone that shops, will be able to see these and this is something that people will be able to put their hands on and say "ohhh this is something that I could handle to use, and drag around all the time". (This is the way most lay people buy computers, seriously people like to touch things before they buy them, they're weird =P ).
Other ultraportables were expensive because the smaller you got the more you paid for the premium size (mac book air, hp and dell high end ultraportables).
You have to make sure what subset you are looking at. And make sure that you have exactly matching systems.
Because there are enough variants of each model it would confuse even the most detail oriented savants.
Not to lend any credence to your claim, but EULA's have a bad history in courts, because they are associated with state law. Aren't really contracts that one has to conscionable of to sign and document their understanding thereof and it so happens that many of them get over turned in court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA
Except you are exactly wrong.
This is a fully distributed and available product you can buy and resell. Like if i wanted to I could go to my local bestbuy and buy 20 of them.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8559197&st=leopard&type=product&id=1188561458224
Or I could work with a LAR or Distribution Partner like Tech Data or Ingram Micro and buy hundreds of them at a discounted rate!!
This isn't something that Apple can really hold the purse strings on, the way they have the Leopard setup for sale.
I think Steve's blade may be a bit dull trying to cut through all the red tape set forth in their own EULA.
from: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yZd3DfSTe6cJ:www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/psystar-says-rumors-of-its-demise-are-greatly-exaggerated-still/comments/11642842/+leopard+eula+unenforceable&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Psystar/Open Computing is reselling a full (read: fully-licesned) copy of MacOSX Leopard. They are then preinstalling it onto the system, telling you that they do modifications, and telling you that the copy is no longer under warranty. In addition, the courts have been moving in the direction of saying EULA's are not necessarily contractual, because of the low barrier of people to click "I Accept", weakening any potential Apple case.
To be fair, DMCA is vague on modifying software for personal use, and violating license, but only from the perspective of "taking away revenue". In this case, Apple is getting attributed as creating the software, and sells a retail copy of Leopard every time Psystar/Open Computing sells one to buyers.
from: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:dIo9yM9-QvMJ:timmorton.blogspot.com/2008/04/apple-vs-psystar-clone-mac-era.html+leopard+eula+unenforceable&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us
What it boils down to is that running Leopard on a machine that Apple did not make violates the EULA. EULA's are largely NOT legally enforceable, and in those states where they are the degree to which they are varies widely. EULA's are not active contracts, and are largely invalid because you cannot read them in entirety (or at all usually) on the packaging before making your purchase, leaving you vulnerable to stipulations that were unknown at the time of purchase. EULA's are legally weak, all but entirely unenforceable, and would be outrageously expensive to attempt to enforce on any type of broad scale.
Basically I think Apple really would have to pay to play this game that it might lose. EULA's are largely flawed and usually unenforceable. Will be interesting to see what Apple does, if not nothing.
The way this works out is that they want to be able to Label systems as Game or Game Ultimate if they meet or exceed certain specifications. Kinda like the way Microsoft labeled systems as "vista ready". This really isn't a standardization, they are looking to be able to set customers expectations via a labeling system, so that the customer will have a good idea what they are getting before they get it out of the box.
AoC plays much like Guildwars did. It's terribly linear, and boring. It had some potential but it fell apart as development went along. It will probably pull more than Guildwars did, but still won't be the mega-hit that WoW was. Warhammer still holds some potential but it has very stiff competition.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914-6.html Take a look at the pictures. It's a 2.5inch drive on a 3.5 inch bay cooler.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914-6.html If you look at this page, Toms ripped it out of the IcePack Sync and it looks no bigger than a current 2.5inch drive. There is no extra things sticking out...
They used a nonstandard connector layout because it's a 2.5inch drive...
Exactly, it takes some adjustment time, but Glossy is definitely my preference now as well.