Abegweit
Anarchist trader
No. He's President of the MPAA. The revolving doors just go round and round.At least Chris Dodd insist running for senator this year. Not that we Nutmeggers want him back anyway.
No. He's President of the MPAA. The revolving doors just go round and round.At least Chris Dodd insist running for senator this year. Not that we Nutmeggers want him back anyway.
This is what happens when you have low voting standards, or none at all, and simply vote for the congressman with the biggest sign in front of your local library, or the person with the fancy speech.
They were voted in by more fools.Congress is made up of a bunch of fools. It is my policy to pity fools.
They are in the same boat. If one goes down, so will the other. After all, both must pass both chambers of congress and be signed by the president.
Something will eventually pass, but I think the apocalyptic qualities of these bills will be cut out.
Reminds me of the Alex Shrub answer in Vice City after being asked why he raises taxes after promising zero taxes and pays the rich to dump toxic waste next to the poor: 'I'll take for fiteen minutes about a completely unrelated subject and then remind everyone that under my government Vice City's had 15% better weather'This is what happens when you have low voting standards, or none at all, and simply vote for the congressman with the biggest sign in front of your local library, or the person with the fancy speech.
Yes, politics are always a small world.No. He's President of the MPAA. The revolving doors just go round and round.
I hate Steam for reasons entirely unrelated to DRM. I bought the game. It's mine. I should be able to play it without running background crap that eats processor time. If my computer explodes and I have to build a new one, I should be allowed to play that game on my new computer. And I agree completely with Benefactor: there's nothing actually holding Steam to its promise to jailbreak all of its games when they go out of business. Most likely they'll file Eleven and hose everybody.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Is+Ben+Quayle+of+Arizona+related+to+Dan+Quayle?Is Ben Quayle of Arizona related to Dan Quayle?
Is Ben Quayle of Arizona related to Dan Quayle?
And if they're not found out, they get good publicity. With the added bennie that they will probably never be found out, because saying you're against SOPA is a subjective claim that can't be proved true or false by anybody who isn't telepathic. The only way to prove it false is if the CEO of Blizzard comes out and says he lied, and he's not that stupid.
My answer remains no: I don't see anything in here to verify that Blizzard is actually against SOPA, even if they say they are. There's pluses and minuses to every possible thing Blizzard could say here.
wtf? That is steam's DRM. It's also why I've been boycotting them.
And about these laws: they're great! Because they finally make people start to see that the only way "piracy" can be prevented is through draconian laws. You can either have those laws, and hand over to its overseers the power to arbitrarily persecute anyone when they find convenient (because everybody will be violating them at some time), or you can drop the whole outdated notion of copyright already. Businesses were built around it and will have to be replaced by different ones? It's already happening. People didn't outlaw cars for the sake of the buggy whip makers. They tried, though...
The only "immaterial property rights" requiring legal protection are those of identity, against impersonation/deceit/fraud. So protect brands, protect names, that kind of stuff. To violate that falls under the much older notion of fraud anyway.
But preventing copies? In this "digital era"? No way. Patents and copyright have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had one.
Why should it exist at all? It has no benefit and, as this SOPA/PIPA brouhaha proves intellectual property is all about extortion.If we drop the entire concept of intellectual property, what alternative do you propose?
Methinks Obama stopping SOPA awfully close to the election time isn't by coincidence. /trollface
Why should it exist at all? It has no benefit and, as this SOPA/PIPA brouhaha proves intellectual property is all about extortion.
Leave people alone.
Very few people would try hard or invest large amounts of resources to create or invent anything if we didn't have them. There has to be a large financial incentive for innovation.