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Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="LightStar" reply="80" id="2626071"] What is the Hurt Locker lawsuit? Try here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ia3e81d4dc935f423aef090323c40270a [/quote] They're just doing what the RIAA did and, might I add, failed to do. The RIAA sued all over the place, didn't stop piracy though. So of that 50,000 they'll wind up suing grandmothers who let their grandchildren use computers, or just hit th

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="LuthienStarshine" reply="70" id="2625844"] Wrong, libraries don't need author/publisher authorization to lend books. COPYRIGHT, people. I looked it up. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/108.html [/quote] Copyright holders made similar arguments against libraries. Strangely enough, they managed to survive even after the first sale doctrine and the widespread adapation of libraries. The world always ends w

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="400" id="2625781"] I spoke to some classmates on our way to CeBit about DRM and registering online is something all of us were perfectly fine with. [/quote] I spoke to my friends and family about the same thing, we are not okay with it.

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="46" id="2624916"]Who here has ever been to Asia? [/quote] Well I lived in Japan for a little awhile, and before you say that is not what you meant by "Asia" I assure you Japan has it's fair share of issues with US businesses. There were a lot of fake louis vuitton and other designer bags and clothes there, fake computers there (they say Sony but that's not a real sony VAIO), as well as fairly easy access to pirated software. And not hiding in back alleys or

Reply to Blizzard did it again in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="58" id="2624642"] Nesrie, your correct. Note that EQ2 is doing a $25 mount also now* (which is crap since it dosn't have wings - I wonder if the EQ2 developers from 2003 acttually knew their bad designs would screw over the game for the next decade?). * as opposed to a $26 or $22 one - all they ever seem to do at SOE is steal everyone elses methods, they sell other crap as well I think. I havn't played EQ2 since RoK. [/quote]

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote] Then you must have no trouble with torrent sites since they "don't actually deal in content" they just connect one from one source to another. Seeing as Newzbin was basically a directory for torrent sites, your post makes you look silly. Would you agree that your local phone book should be allowed to list prostitutes, drug dealers, and hit men in the yellow pages, simply because the publisher of the book isn't a party to any crimes that may be committed using tha

Reply to Blizzard did it again in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="54" id="2624281"]They wouldn't do it unless they are going to make money out of it and they don't have to do it to stay ahead (they are doing that with game content - not external features). Put simply - no MMO is half as good as WoW. That means no competition, that means they can charge whatever they think people will pay. All these other MMOs have to do deals, cut corners (and they STILL don't know how to get players properly - Im constantl

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="27" id="2623994"] Wrong on a couple counts. First - and this has been tested in court - is that ISPs don't actually deal in content, they just maintain the connections. Indeed, it is not within their legal rights to monitor what is passing through. And if they aren't allowed to monitor it, they can't reasonably be expected to take any sort of corrective action. [/quote] Then you must have no trouble with torrent sites sin

Reply to Wii On-line for the First Time, got some Old School back! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

But why would you need that? I mean the Wii has a wireless connection built in.

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="15" id="2623351"] That also dosn't mean you should oppress innocents to try and stop those that do not conform to the standard. One way or another we are ALL victims of crime. You don't have to be burgled to still need to purchase/use locks, etc. on your property. If there were no crime the only people to 'suffer' would be locksmiths..... ....and Police.... ...and Lawyers.... ....Judges.... <

Reply to Wii On-line for the First Time, got some Old School back! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="12" id="2623516"] I've had a Wireless adapter for my Wii for years. It's a little USB cable with a receiver on the end for sending wireless signals from your Wii to your Router. It came with a small disk which had to be installed on the PC that was hooked to your router for it to work. I could never get it to work though. I opened ports, everything was installed and configured correctly, but still my Wii wouldn't get On-line. As of now my Wii

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I live in the real commercial world, finished school. I don't like having my work taken for free anymore than you do. The difference is, even though I hate not getting paid, I don't think the hospital I worked out should run a credit check everytime someone came in with a severed limb and expected treatment. Sometimes, you just have to accept that you won't get paid, go after those you can. It certainly doesn't strengthen your point to run around screaming 911 and who cares if we take down ce

Reply to Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="32" id="2622984"]For our purposes, their idea of active accounts (active in the past 30 days) seems reasonable. When one talks about active accounts, the key question is how many people can a given promotion realistically target. [/quote] Isn't that like Zynga touting millions upon millions of Farmville players even though it seems like majority of those players never give Zynga a dime. I am not saying it's not relevant, but having 25 mil ac

Reply to R.I.P Newzbin , closed over Legal Action...a Resource Lost... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who=" Jafo " reply="3" id="2622930"] And your point is...... [/quote] Communication isn't something you should police 100% of the time just because sometimes when people talk or read or listen they say or see or hear things you think they shouldn't. Since you want throw out terrorism for example, let me direct to you a number of murderous dictatorships that use as a backing to their power the control of communication. <spa

Reply to Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It would be important to know if they have to have at least one paid for game since Valve uses steam to do free weekends and give things away. My first venture with steam was a free weekend with L4D1 and then later L4D2. I didn't purchase either game or anything else until long after both events.

Reply to iPad definitely a threat to Windows in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The only reason I use windows is because that is where the games are at. I don't see the iPad taking over the kind of gaming I expect even as it enters the gaming market. As for the average consumer that uses emails and uses word proc, maybe for them it would work. I am not sure. I haven't been an average consumer of PC type stuff for years.

Reply to Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="RAWRRRR" reply="13" id="2622692"]pfft who's word should we take this time, another random guy linking another very accurate news article, or the insistence of a CEO? [/quote] It's idiotic to think that the gaming industry has some real quality journal work going on. You should have seen the bit on the 1 million accounts Cryptic claimed to have for Star Trek online. Turns out, they were talking about one million web accounts. Since I have a STO web account, which I rec

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Reply to Wii On-line for the First Time, got some Old School back! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I am really enjoying the Monster Hunter Tri myself, and have had my Wii online since the beginning for Mario Kart. I don't think you need a new Wii though for more old games. One of their updates allows you to launch from the SD card now so you can save them there (so I am told). I don't buy a bunch of Wii VC or Wiiware games yet. I have sent them as gifts to other Wii players though! Mario 3... fun stuff.

Reply to Portal is free... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="25" id="2621656"]Wait, serious question: how would you play this on a mac? I'm pretty sure the game (and most games really) requires more than one mouse button. [/quote] I would assume if they port a game to MAC, they would do what most other companies do, change the controls, otherwise all PC gamers would have to use controllers, and we certainly don't.

Reply to Any King's Quest fans? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Loved King's Quest up until that last one I think. Kyrandia, Space Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory (Serf city but a different genre there)... pretty much got me hooked into PC gaming, gateways to "western" style RPGs too.

Reply to So EA finally went and did it. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Altaux" reply="53" id="2620147"]No he is right, they have the legal abilty to do what they are doing. None thought they would though. But its like darwin said, except for those who rent games, this only effects those people who want to spend $5 less on a used game instead of a new one [/quote] I never said he was wrong. Legally alot of people and a lot of businesses can do a lot of things; that doesn't mean they should.

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="375" id="2619707"] As a side note: I would think elemental's offical mod distrobuting methods would have a similar "badness barrier" for mods. Lets just hope they don't try and censor sexy elf and dirty furry mods along with the "MyFirstCopyrightInfringementMod" mods. [/quote] Brad and Co. haven't said they plan on milking everyone out the gate with DLC right?[quote who="bonscott" reply="374" id="2619696"] [quote] <br

Reply to So EA finally went and did it. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="47" id="2618652"] Besides, they have the legal right to limit access to their multiplayer servers by any criteria they want. [/quote] I think you are just covering for them. If they don't want everyone on their servers, stop forcing everyone to use their servers. It's that simple. You don't get to claim its too expensive and not fair to offer these services when you force your games to use them when it is not necessary. They can offload all t