The demo is excellent. The ships are so purty! Which is saying something in the dark and dreary Sins light sourcing... Accurate phaser graphics would be drool inducing, but they're honestly more than good enough as is. I don't dislike any of the weapon effects, and most of them are superb. If it were even close to balanced, even with the limitations I'd probably be losing a week or more to it. A side effect of the absolutely horrific hasn't
"Gamers shall have the right to return games that don’t work with their computers for a full refund." I'd guess this calls for a literal translation. It may seem unfair to be having people return software because it's their computer's fault, but there are drawbacks to a fair system. First, proof is impossible. You would have to send a godlike tech support guru out to their house and inspect their computer inside and out before you could even pres
See, Willy knows, he just thinks it's entirely reasonable for the software industry to circumvent our rights in an underhanded manner. The rest of you are just brain damaged and can't read.
Thanks Willy. Even the devil himself gets it. Since you sem to have a lack in your english skills, this is the definition of mea culpa. Earlier in the thread, you discovered that you really could use software without violating copyright regardless of the presence of a license after Jonnan linked the relevant law for the zillionth time. Get it?
Yeah, being able to download it any time you want is going a little far. :) The rest of it is a fucking shame though, most of it should have been expected the entire time. It's a real pity the big guns in the publishing industry can't get a few of them through their heads. I'd buy games left and right if I weren't so bloody paranoid about them running like complete crap.
[quote]Copyright law says people who do not own the copyright can't copy. Blizzard owns the code, and they did not give transfer their copyright to their users when they sold the product to their user. The license grants users limited rights they didn't have without the licene.[/quote] No, it doesn't. The license rescinds rights you have under the copyright statutes. Didn't you already pull a mea culpa on this earlier? Modding and distributing those mo
But copyright law already covers copying. Licenses further restrict your use. You may only be allowed to consume that banana in it's natural state. Slicing it could be construed as exploratory and banned to prevent other people from making modified bananas. For the rest of your post. Perhaps it would make more sense if you took the entire posts instead of separating your quotes out and then only responding to those? This one in particular is great, real
Ahah, conclusion? Does that include the eventual boredom kill that will end the posting when we get tired of people that can't read? Crackhead! I don't play WOW, never played WOW, never will play WOW, and was responding to your own asstard hypothetical's in the first place. Obviously, I'm not cheating, using bots, or stealing WOW. So, stop calling me a thief or I'll sue you for libel and get a ruling as equally preposterous as the one Blizzard got that puts you in the poor house. S
[quote]So you ask the person at the store, call the company, or go to the company's website. What do you want, the entire box plastered with the EULA so you can't see the title of the game you're buying?[/quote] Not my problem. If the software companies want to write themselves exemptions to the laws, they have to do it legally. Bans on reverse engineering a product for your own personal amusement are not necessary to protect their intellectual property. Termination c
-What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? I buy a product, it may or may not have "license enclosed" written on the outside. This is indicative of jack fucking shit. To be preposterous, they could be giving away fishing licenses. To be reasonable, that license can say anything from "By using this software you agree to be bound, gagged, and raped by our company at our discretion" to "You agree not to reverse engineer this product" Stardocks are the latter, EA's ar
Cobra is honest! One down, two eternal hypocrites to go. Stardock should add butt sex to their EULA's! "By installing this software, you agree to be fucked in the ass at our discretion." That way they can fit in with the major game publishers and still keep a sense of humor. Fair warning my ass. It's only figurative at this point, but we're already getting fucked in the ass if EULA's are legally binding. How the hell do you call "license enclosed" fair warn
If getting new activations was proven to be easy, I'd have gone with it. You can always crack it later if they shut down the servers in the future. Unfortunately they're making people wait weeks in Mass Effect, so buying is a big why bother.
Annatar, they haven't removed it from Mass Effect. The latest bitchfest on SecuROM is on page 42 in the OT section of the Bioware forums. Perhaps you're thinking of Bioshock? The shit hit the fan there and they dropped it like the raging inferno of a fuckup it was. EA is just ignoring the issue completely and giving everyone the silent treatment. Even Bioware is shafting people by excluding the discussion to the OT forum.
Fucking shit, did it again. Christ I hate this connection. Cobra, the judge shitting on the law doesn't change reality. It's the Ninth circuit, they get rolled more often than a Vegas hooker. If the Supreme pansy shit ass fucker Court wasn't fucking us over and intentionally not ruling on copyright despite conflicting rulings on a federal statute, something they are required to resolve, they'd overturn this ruling and the insanity that was used to justify it. If a judge rule
You have absolutely no clue. The relevant text from the copyright act has already been posted more than once. It is explicitly stated that copyrights do not pertain to the copying required for use of the software, or for backup purposes. The only countries that do not have copyright laws specifically allowing you to use the software as necessary, also do not uphold licenses. Learn first, post stupid shit after. Even without going anywhere, there are 14 pages refuting every p
Screw it, Jafo, I'm going to be bad again. Do whatever floats your boat. A way out. What the hell is wrong with you? Not even EA would attempt such a bullshit argument, and they're claiming that 3 activation limits and requiring internet access are for our benefit. Equal footing with their customers by giving them the same ability to get rid of their customers purchase as their customer has? Are you a fucking crack head? I've talked to drug addled mental cases drinking themselves
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. Edit: Arg, brain damage. Continues post... Bodyless, you do understand the concepts involved right?<
[quote]psychoak - what you're describing is a mod, not an expansion. A user-created mod such as you describe would be legal only because the Stardock EULA allows it - and guess what, selling a mod is specifically prohibitted. Yes, you've indicated one more gray area where an EULA provides protection that is not expressedly given a company under copyright law. Thank you for bringing up a point in favor of the necessity of EULAs.[/quote] Ahah. Ahaha. I can't stop laughing... It's just
Sure, if you want to devote the entire worlds farm land to making grease... Biofuels are a pipe dream born of idiocy. The greenies pushing them are just so fucking stupid they can't tie their own shoes. Brazil can do it because Brazil is burning down the rain forests and planting unfertilized crops of heavy fertilizer requiring stuff that wipes the fertility of the ground out in just a few years, before then moving onto the next swath of trees. When they run out of rain forest, somet
Oh wow, I really hosed those quotes... pathetic. Borg, you are. :) A program is a program. Either it violates copyright or it doesn't. The classic example of an expansion would be copyright infringement because expansions expand on the intellectual creations that are the sides and stories in a game, not just the mechanics. An expansion needn't actually do that though. You could expand on Sins by creating a new hud that subverted and replaced the original, used entirely original
[quote]Sorry i didnt knew that i had to be a native english speaker to have a right to say my opinion.[/quote] Yeah, I'm an asshole, I noted your horrific english. I didn't say it was your fault, although the courtesy of a spell checker would have been nice. Competioner isn't particularly close to competitor, I was guessing you meant to say that. Considering your reasoning was rather poor for the rest of the post, I wanted to qualify my response. [quote]The Copyright does no
[quote]Having just attempted to purchase an airline ticket online, there was no mention of any sort of conditions or terms at all before they started asking for payment information. Certainly not in a form an ignorant consumer (which you and Jonnan insist everyone must be assumed to be) couldn't possibly miss. There was no hand-holding, polite person having me initial various paragraphs that Jonnan thinks are necessary to form any sort of contract. Therefore I am forced to assume that, had I pur
Ten years is a lie, you don't really believe your representatives do you? When some crazy fuck spends a decade spouting nonsense about how global warming is caused by a trace element vital to the survival of flora, and then claims the warming will create a cascade effect that dooms the planet, I tend to write them off as a crazy fuck. Believing anything they say in relation to oil is a sign of mental instability. ANWR is two years easy. Offshore drilling would take ten years
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