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Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Your post is wasted on this bunch. :) Welcome to the "useless post educating idiots" club.

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else Sins Forums

Hardly, the ethanol actually costs $12-15 a gallon. :)

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Wrong. Blizzard owns their own servers. Terminating your access does nothing to your copy of the game. It is completely irrelevant to the concept of copyright, you're a virtual guest on their virtual property doing something that gets you banned from it. They can do whatever the hell they want with their own servers, it's the risk you take in buying a game that requires one. If they practiced fraudulent activities, such as selling WOW to millions of customers and then shutting down their se

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Cobra, you're a tard. Maybe if you read entire posts and kept them in context, you'd be able to respond to ideas instead of breaking them into individual sentences and commenting separately. Engineering something to argue against by dissecting posts indicates that you've lost, know you've lost, and can't accept it. There is no second wrong when you violate an illegal licensing agreement that defrauds you of your purchase. EULA's are only binding in magical fairy land where id

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Windows copies programs in part or whole. Every time you move a file, it copies it. Temporary copies have been legally protected for a long time because they are a necessary function of every day use, this ruling throws that out. Besides, your "copyright infringement" while using the bot is being attributed to the bot maker. Blizzard didn't sue the users. The designer has been held accountable for the copying done by his product users. This unfair advantage stuff is bullshi

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I have an unfair advantage over you in logic. You should sue me on the grounds that you're damaging your reputation by posting. An after market performance increase for your automobile gives you an unfair advantage over the manufacturers other customers! Obviously automobile manufacturers should sue all after market manufacturers for damaging them and their and customers. If, and only if the bot itself is illegal, can they in any way hold the designer accountable. Otherwise

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Well, they are and they aren't. Corrupt lawmakers and judges are telling us they are.

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

You do fight fire with gasoline, perhaps you've never heard of back burning? :) The other statement is patently absurd, sheer naivety to apply it to the situation. When using a logical fallacy argument, you actually have to apply it in a logical fashion, else you're simply creating a logical fallacy yourself. "Two wrongs don't make a right" is a counter to the logical fallacy of justification by example. It's just fine if I lie because other people lie. It has no bearing on

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

First, returning a product after a rejected EULA. Not a legitimate solution. There are costs incurred in purchasing a fraudulent product, shipping if you buy it online, time spent, fuel expenditures. In my case, I'm looking at 8 bucks easy to "take" a game back. I will stop violating them and return objectionable EULA containing products when I am reimbursed in a proper fashion for such a violation. The exchange of legal tender is a binding contract, the restricting EULA is a breach

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Yes, steam is only not a nuisance after you switch it to offline. When you go to start it up in online mode and your connection takes a shit, the fucker wont let you into anything.

Reply to No Mac zealots, Apple didn't invent the dock in Personal Computing Sins Forums

I'm surprised that no one mentioned the Taskbar... Poor Microsoft, always getting left out. That's been a standard for Windows since 1995 after all.

Reply to Do you use an UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) for your computer setup? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

3 times in the past few months? :( I weep! Mine kicks in more than that each day. Loads drop to inadequate levels on a regular basis, when the AC starts up there's a guaranteed drop.

Reply to Do you use an UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) for your computer setup? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Regulations kill. The usual standard is that the power company will be allowed to charge enough to meet a certain percentage in profit. Since they don't gain anything by having a better product or avoiding high maintenance periods where they get to spend two weeks replacing downed poles in a big storm, they don't bother. Regardless, a UPS is most definitely worth it. Even in Germany, power fluctuations are going to be an issue. Perfect load balancing is simply impossible, every time

Reply to The First (and Possibly Last) Post in Everything Else Sins Forums

Sounds familiar... One of these days I gotta actually play the expansions...

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

You're a troll because you post stupid shit every time someone tells you something you apparently already know is true. Piracy fills voids, it's always filled voids, and will always fill viods. Laws are artificial factors, when they manipulate the market, they create voids. The illegal market takes up the slack at some middle point depending on the risk/reward factors. Since we've been getting royally screwed by the companies the last couple decades, the reward is pretty fucking high

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Cobra, downward spiral of bad behavior? Perhaps you could check into reality briefly? There is no downward spiral, regardless of whether it's bad behavior or not. First, copyright infringement is a fiction created by people to advance society. Intellectual property exists solely because we say it does. This is part of the reason so many pirates say fuck off. Most of the world gets told this absurdly moronic idea and thinks what? you can't own an idea? What kind of crack ar

Reply to EA Announces Knights of the Old Republic MMO in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Lucas Arts owns the rights to KOTOR, not Bioware. EA is going ahead with a KOTOR MMO in partnership with Lucas Arts. :)

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I couldn't have put it better myself. Your insights into the psychology of the pirate are truly inspirational. Working from your examples, the pirates are right in not handing over money for items with hidden contracts designed to give the companies the legal right to defraud them. After all, you can't trust thieves and murderers, it's just not logical! Perhaps if you identified less with thieves and murderers and more with decent human beings, you'd have better luck? <br

Reply to When you buy a disk... in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Copyright notification can only release rights normally retained under copyright law, and you do own the book you buy, not just the paper and ink. EULA's claim whatever bullshit the writers come up with and can include restrictions beyond the legal limitations. Perhaps you haven't heard of first sale doctrine? Licensing software came about because vendors wanted to further restrict the usage rights of the consumers beyond that of copyright, but any such limitations were illega

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Note, not everyone speeds.

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Willy, I was referring to a certain nine judge panel that resides in D.C. and is currently fucking around and leaving us hanging. May the lot of them rot. The lower level rulings have gone both ways and the country is split, that's why the DMCA was passed to start with, EULA's were being tossed in half the country and upheld in the other half.

Reply to When you buy a disk... in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Books do not have EULA's in them, what planet do some of you live on? Copyright notification has nothing to do with licensing, they are separate issues entirely. The only reason you'd ever need to get a license for a book is if you were interested in breeching standard copyright law. A publisher can make allowances for activities that are normally withheld rights. For instance, an educational book will probably have exceptions for educational use that allow copying, or they may give

Reply to DRM Stops Piracy for Now, Preservation for the Future in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Mascrinthus, Stardock has built archiving into their system. To create archives for the fully updated versions, one would simply tell Impulse to archive them. The DRM issue only applies to something you'd need to get around, and Stardock has given us tools instead of obstacles.

Reply to Pirates are eating themselves! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Elite, I know plenty of people that don't believe in copyright. Not everyone is sensible as you so excellently display, along with a number of other grossly ignorant individuals convinced that piracy will doom the PC market. I have a fairly extensive knowledge on the history of it and plainly see the flaws, but the logic is very simple and true. Copyrights and patents are government sanctioned monopolies. This ignores the concept of competing products of course, such as one book writ

Reply to EU to Ban Pirates from the Internet? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Copyright is not notification of an end user license agreement. Did you sign an EULA for the last book you bought? Software isn't special just because some people in the software industry want it to be. We're protected against fraud specifically to stop that sort of tactic, and the onus is to be on the buyer to figure out the hidden terms to his purchase? There are copyrights on nearly everything you buy, and almost none of them come with an EULA. You have no EULA written in a book,