Sega Gets It Right About SOPA: It's Time For A Hard Reset On Copyright Law & Congress
from the metaphorically-speaking dept
With the news that the ESA supports SOPA, thus representing all its member companies on the matter, many gamers have taken to writing to ESA member companies asking for their input on the matter and especially asking them to oppose the legislation. As Kotaku reports, one such gamer has received word back from Sega after writing a very nicely worded letter outlining his concerns over SOPA.Generally these issues are caused by bad installs or junk data that's stuck in the system memory. The first suggestion would be to perform a hard reset on the device. It's best to attempt this any time you experience performance problems with your device or have an app crash. If it doesn't work, its suggested that you uninstall the app, perform a hard reset, reinstall and then perform one more hard reset before launching the game.While Sega does not come right out in opposition to SOPA, it does give some great advice for dealing with the problem. As we all know, there have certainly been some bad Congressmen and Senators installed into Congress. This has led to a lot of junk data build up in Washington. The best solution, according to Sega is to uninstall those Congressmen and Senators and start fresh. While a hard reset might not be the easiest way to deal with the problem, the threat of such a reset would certainly get the attention of those in Washington. We have already seen some of the fruits of Reddit's attempts at just such an uninstall and hard reset. So let's all follow Sega's advice and work on clearing out the bad installs and hard reset Congress.
If you're problems continue, please let us know.
Now, let's see if Sega comes out with an actual position on SOPA.
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*puts multimeter between Article 1, Section 8 of US Constitution and SOPA/PIPA/DMCA
The output is bad.
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Let's not also forget the most important troubleshooting question "Are you sure it is plugged in?"
In this case, I don't believe our politicians (US Congress or my own Members of Parliament) are plugged in to reality.
It's like they think they are BJT's, responding to base current (ie: the word of the people) but in reality they are MOSFET's, negligible current enters the gate. Like a MOSFET, they respond to voltage, the potential difference between the gate and source (ie: monetary provided difference - salary Vs 'donations'). Well... we people are the VG (gate voltage), but naturally their source is tied to VDD, so of course you never get a breakover of VGSThreshhold (point where the MOSFET operates in accordance to VGS - the people's will). Which means our own voltage (money from taxes and voice from voting/letters/phone calls) is ignored in favour of VDD (typically much larger than VGS) which is money from corporations.
Hell, we even have industry behind us, like adding a battery in series trying to boost our VGS to exceed VGSThreshold, but to no avail.
Truly a sad time!
Hmm... in hindsight, this might have been funnier if I chose a TCP/IP packet routing table algorithm analogy instead. Sorry.
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The resistance reading between Article 1. Section 8 of the US Constitution and SOPA/PIPA/DCMA deflects on the needle to infinity.
Output is bad because output never connects due to high resistance/impedance between source and target. The design of SOPA/PIPA/DCMA introduces far too much resistance fort the signal to get from them to the US Constitution. Output 0. Expcected output 1. Fail.
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and I really miss that old text based MUD game I used to play! I won't be able to do work or be productive anymore, but work is lame anyway.. bring on 1994 internet!
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Read the bill!
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You're thinking too much
Though... They took the initiative and decided to roll with it, since the "perform a hard reset" was so obviously out of place they made the video to play off of it, and to make it funny.
The company that owns Sega is very rich(From pachinko machines in japan) so if any major game company would come out for a "hard reset" of copyright, they would be on the short list of candidates.
I hope Sega comes out officially against SOPA.
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I think actually it may be you who's thinking too much. :)
This was probably nothing more than a customer support rep sending the wrong canned support reply to a message.
That's exactly what it was. And we turned it into what we thought was an obvious joke.
Perhaps not so obvious.
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System restore my ass!
Plus we have to sit there forever waiting for it to start back up - that's the only reason I never shut the thing down in the first place.
No, I don't want to download all of iTunes every time they release a new product. And no, I don't want Safari with that. Get outta my face.
Oh man, automatic updates again! It's like every week!
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Tsk Tsk Sega
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I read that The Pirate Bay is going to remove ALL torrent files
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Announcing Operation Blue
After our success yesterday with NVidia, we hope we can get some results. Any help you could give in spreading the word would be much appreciated.
http://operationsopa.blogspot.com/2012/01/announcing-operation-blue-opblue.html
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Common Sense not found. Reboot, Retry, Fail?
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AI
Sorry for insulting any Robots more intelligent than a dish cloth.
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Ugh
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Funny button?
Mike, I demand you put the Insightful and Funny button on your articles!
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