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[quote]I think you're assuming a lot more ambiguity in contract law than is actually there -[/quote] Maybe, but something just came up in my mind: You dont need to buy the retail WoW to play it. You can download the entire Client for free from the WoW Homepage. And even buy a license there(completely seperated from the download). No physical cd is required. Now do you want to base this case on the users who a) buyed the retail WoW and used the cd to i

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[quote]Here's the thing - if you accept 4), then 5) follows inexorably if the buyer is a consumer. The CD is the original item being sold[/quote] Not necessarily. You are buying a game, yes, but it is only an assumption that you are buying the cd inside the box. If there is a fair warning that you purchase a license and the cd is simply provided for you to get the a copy of the software, your assumption is useless. Now you can argue what a "fair warning" is. But that decision has to

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[quote]The Owners of Program B are now liable for contributory infringement because the use of their program rescinded the license.[/quote] Since its the sole purpose of program B, yes they are liable. Maybe that does not make the program immediatly illegal, but the maker of it is still responsible for the damages done. Because he made it to do damages. [quote]Again, the problem is that Blizzard is stating that you don't actually own the physical CD.[/quote] Exactl

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[quote]Because the simple existence of them is enough to brainwash most people into believing their surroundings are necessary. This isn't even a particularly impressive example of sheeple, a particularly dumb one perhaps, but various groups of people have shafted themselves far worse for far less reason on countless occasions simply because they thought the status quo was necessary.[/quote] I am just not as paranoid to believe that companies act out of pure evilness. Its either pro

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[quote]Which in turn means that, regardless of the legality of any other program created, there is no legal way of not applying exactly this logic to *whatever program Company X doesn't like*. Even, arguably, any action taken by their customer that they don't like - after all, the customer *accepted* the EULA, not their fault they weren't aware that by donating to the democratic or republican party they were violating the EULA.r[/quote] Now there is a differnce between banning a whole c

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[quote]Ahah. Ahaha. I can't stop laughing... It's just so funny... What the hell do you think an expansion is? An expansion modifies the pre-existing game. That we give two identical things two different names because they come in different contextual environments does not change reality. If you can expand on a game without violating copyright, and the scenario I gave DOES NOT VIOLATE COPYRIGHT, it's legal. It's your right to do so, the EULA, by banning such things, VIOLATES YOUR RIGHTS. Yeah, I

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[quote]Glider is a perfectly legal program which in no way in and of itself infringes upon the intellectual property of Blizzard.[/quote] I dont agree with this. "I feel that's important enough to bear repeating." I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this. I dont agree with this.

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[quote]If the police arrest two people fighting on the street, and the police pull the 400 pound 6'5" boxer off of the 5'10 170 pound teenager, do you consider this an evidence of 'bias' against large people? If the that gets shot with a BB gun shoots back with a machine gun, is the attempted murder charge a result of 'bias' against gun owners? My god Willy's right - there is a built in bias towards the powerful not being allowed to overreact.[/quote] Weapons dont kill

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[quote]Most EULA's are written to fuck competitors, not consumers. Don't you even realize that?[/quote] psychoak, you need to rethink what reverse engeneering means. It allows you to view the source code (or at least something similar to it) and copy it to use in your programs. Which does violate copyright law. But since you cant track that, they dont allow you do reverse engeneer at all. ALSO, if you are making a competionor product, a program with a similar use, it do

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The Topic "Game Cheats are Illegal" is a bit misleading. Blizzard did not sue the cheaters (they simply get banned when caught for a good reason) but the one who made a bot program and sold it (without money to get they would not sue anyone). Blizzards argument: It circumiats Warden. (And so violating the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act") The Judge's argument: The program makes illegal copies of WoW, since they are not needed to run WoW alone. This has rather little

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[quote]I find this to be such an odd statement - you say you either will not purchase the game or you'll abide by their rules . . . when the whole point of this argument is that you don't know their rules when you purchase their software?[/quote] As it has been repeadtily said, the link to the WoW eula is shown on the box so you can read them before you purchase. Also any mmorpg is very likely to have a kind of HP where you can create your account and read any agrrement you need to

Reply to The Balance Theory in Everything Else Sins Forums

I cannot agree with any theory/philsophy that does not have any evidnece beyond ones own experience and a feeling that i would be right. Nor does any example proofs that something is true in the way you are trying to do. And last but not least: if you believe in something, why cant you do it silently?

Reply to What difficulty AI takes over a dropped player? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Surrendering seems to be the same like quitting except that you get a loose for being honest.

Reply to RA in beta 1.1, broken? in Strategy Sins Forums

The RA Ability uses resoruces now. maybe you dont have enough resources to use all gates.

Reply to Exploring: Worth it? in Strategy Sins Forums

In early game the cost of exploration is to big to be worth it. But as soon as your empire grows the costs will get smaller relative to your income but the benefits from artifacts may even grow in time.

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Hard: best AI with no extra bonus Unfair: best ai with extra resources i think

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Well i cannot argue about US Law since i am neither are lawyer nor a inhabtiant of the usa. But as far as i understood the article the bot program itself copied files of the wow program into the ram. [quote](1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;[/quote] So it DID reproduce copyright protected material. I have no idea in which quantity or quality it does so. Also i dont argue that this may be a bad ruling. Still i thi

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You can always do that if you own that other pc.

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[quote]No - Neither is Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Word, Photoshop, or any of the other dozens of applications programs with third party extensions written for them.[/quote] These extensions are either licensed or only work because of an inbuild feature of a given program as intended by the devs of the program. [quote]That is what we're talking about, he sold a program that created features these people wanted, they installed it on their computer - *their* person

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[quote]Oh my god - someone wrote an additional program, using features of an underlying system of operating system and application programs, and dared to *sell* that?[/quote] Is WoW an operating system? [quote]My God - to imagine, the shear chutzpah of writing a program that improves on or uses the features of another program. And making money off of it! You are right sir - there is no more immoral act than making money off of the backs of others in this way.[/quote] F

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.1 BETA Coming Soon in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote]Will it be possible to download this 1.1 Beta patch without having Impulse? I ask this because when I try to start Impulse it doesn't work.Thanks.[/quote] You could try using stardock central...or contacting support about your problem. But else, probably not.

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SOCKS? isnt that quite unsecure?

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[quote]Another unsatified customer here... I played HL2, used steam, hated steam, disinstalled it, promised to myself never had to do with steam and every game that uses it (or something similar). Please don't do this for Sins too...please...[/quote] At least you dont need Impulse to run the game, unlike steam and steam games. Thats quite a big difference. So it does only eat resources while patching. You could also try stardock central if you dont like Impulse.

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[quote]Bodyless you miss my point. Anyone's access to the software and service can be terminated without cause is what I would not accept. As a result, my action to not buy the product or service is reasonable.[/quote] No i dont. they wont just go around and ban ppl for no reason. they want to make money so if you get your acces terminated its very likely you cheated in one or the other way. They WANT to make profit. so they will not cut themself a leg off by banning paying custom

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[quote]By the way, after having read their agreement, I would not even consider purchasing and playing their game. It stipulates anyone's access to the game and service can be terminated without cause. This sost of outrageous one sided rubish is what you get from monopolists.[/quote] Ok, if you rather want to play a game with massive bots users, since the gms would not have any legal way to ban them except by sueing every single one for breaking the eula. And this clause is not