At least he is consistent. Consistently wrong, but consistent.
I just can't wait until he starts accusing Techdirt of commercially profiting from illegally exploiting artists works because we talk about it here and there are ads on the page.
Lowery, repeat after me, Pirate Bay does not distribute copyright works. They point to others that do, but they don't themselves. (While it is doubtful he'll listen, at least someone else coming here might become more intelligent if we keep saying it.)
Your definitely bringing me back. I seem to remember there being a huge quake that broke up a bunch of states, and there was a Northern California (which became the California Free State) and Southern California (which parts became Azteca,) with Northern California having a President, and Southern California being a wasteland with no center of power. At the time I was playing, I lived in Northern California, so most of the games took place there in the California Free State.
I don't remember Snake Plissken as part of the game though.
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How can this possibly be legal? You are deliberately compromising the security of software to derive "infringement" of patents you didn't devise.
I kinda gathered from reading the summary and the article that they didn't compromise the security in as much as they bought the product, learned how to use it from the tech manuals, and used a logic probe to figure out what it actually did, and then sat down with the lawyers and figured out which of their patents it violated.
It is really sad, and a waste of good engineers, but something tells me that these guys probably weren't good engineers to begin with. I might be wrong, I often am, but as an engineer, sitting down all the time and talking to lawyers and not creating or working on products or making other people's lives worthwhile or better isn't my idea of a worthwhile engineering pursuit.
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Isn't that how all laws work?
True. True.
What I meant is that so long as you don't decrypt someone's ROT13 encoded copyrighted media (DMCA) or violate some trademark or patent, or stuff like that, you're ok. Clean-room reverse-engineering is the best, but there is also other just as legal though more grey methods of reverse-engineering.
I am going from years' old memory on this but I played Shadowrun back in the late 80s and early 90s, and the story goes that on the end of the Mayan Long Count, December 20th, 2012, latent and forgotten capabilities of Magic in the human genome all-the-sudden turn back on in a large group of humans. Thus, in 7 months, if the world portrayed in the game is the same as this world, we all get some form of magic back. And dragons return. And people turn into Orcs, Trolls, Goblins, and we start having Elves and Dwarves as children, and everything. It was a modern urban fantasy. Fun game too.
Freelance nautical robbery is referred to as piracy, while "for hire" nautical robbery is privateering.
Both could theoretically get you executed. Privateering was a little less risky so long as you didn't take out the ships of the country you were hired by or countries that weren't at war with that country. William Kidd was hanged for taking out English ships.
The same could be true for freelance assassins vs state assassins, freelance gun runners and the Department of Homeland Security, etc. I like it though...now I can go into my boss and demand a pay raise because I am a freelance reverse-engineer.
Reverse-engineering is still very much a gray area in the law...it usually is legal unless you violate the law, and there is a minefield of laws that could be violated.
Regarding the bit about you claiming to be an artist, well that may be a mistake on my part. But I'm basing that on your writing style. As I've said in other articles, writing styles are quite unique and it's easy enough to determine who's who (even using those using the AC moniker) based solely on their writing and writing style. Yours is QUITE unique. I have little doubt that you are the same AC who has previously claimed to be an artist of some sort.
You aren't alone. Several of us made the same connection. I was looking back at previous comments, and I could swear they made a comment about being an artist in a previous article in response to me, along with the same statement of "if you only knew who I am." I challenged them before to name themselves...but they didn't respond. Anyone can be an anonymous troll on the internet, but it takes huge balls to be a named troll.
Ahh well, someone other than me is confused then, because I never claimed to be an artist of some stature.
Oh, I am sorry, when you said "Ha, ha. If you only knew who I was." I figured you were an artist that we cared about. My bad.
I'm sure it's some comfort to your collective delusion to assume they are either stupid or forced into label slavery
You do realize that there is more than one speaker here. I never said anything about artists being stupid or forced into label slavery. I was just pointing out that the other anonymous coward said something that you seemed to miss in your reply, about being more than one AC present in the discussion.
You DO understand there can be multiple people posting as AC right?
The problem is that you receive a snowflake every time you post a comment to the same article, and when those match, we can figure out it is you. Unless, of course, you are using the same proxy server as another poster, and both posting anonymously.
You show up as a red circle with an X through it, and have said previously that you are a musician of some stature. Since you have spoken previously, and you have said that the Anonymous Coward you are replying to, who does not have your snowflake is the only person here who knows what their talking about, I believe the other Anonymous Coward's comment is correct. I do often time have to explain other people's punchlines, even when everyone else gets it, and I am usually the life of the party (as if that really needs a /sarc tag.)
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste,
I've been around for a long, long year,
Stole many a mans soul and faith...
-- Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
Another vote for the sad but true button. I still marked it funny but the fact that some of us have to resort to piracy just to play the game we already spent good money buying is more sad and less funny.
I stopped buying published games because I got tired of being told I was a bad guy for spending good money buying the game in the first place. Now it is GoG, open source, freeware, and to somewhat less of an extent, Steam games for me. When I install a brand spanking new (never been installed,) copy of Halo 2 that I bought many years ago direct from Microsoft, and it tells me I installed it on too many computers, that is when I have to say the game is over. Especially when Microsoft even admitted to me that it wasn't a problem with the game, but with the OS I had decided to install it on (64-bit Windows 7) that was the problem.
I'm sorry. While others choose to continue reading the entirety of the summary, despite the failure, you prefer to remain blissfully ignorant due to a single error. I have to ask, with all due respect; do you also throw the baby out with the bathwater?
Dollhouse aside, I'd help Kickstart anything Whedon proposed.
I actually liked Dollhouse (ok, so to each their own.) A little too much like La Femme Nikita, but it wasn't bad. Not Firefly or Buffy, but the humor was there and the writing wasn't bad. Whedon would have my support too, but then again, he's had it in the past. I'd love to see more straight to DVD stuff from him though, and bypass the idiots in Hollywood and give the fans what they want instead. Or start doing stuff like Nerdist/Geek & Sundry and start his own channel.
Ten people I know who otherwise would have bought it without question won't be buying Diablo 3 after I explained the DRM.
+1...I loved Diablo/Diablo II (which I paid for three copies of each including the expansion, on for each computer that I used so that I could play with friends,) as well as Warcraft 1-3 and Starcraft. I have not bought Blizzard since, partly because of the stupid and arrogant stance they took against BNETD and partly because of the DRM. No Starcraft II, and no Diablo III, and certainly no WoW. I'll stick with GoG/Torchlight/etc.
Leaving aside the physical-vs-imaginary property issue, the closer analogy in this instance is that if I want to share my car with you I can do so whether Volkswagon likes it or not.
I routinely share my car with others that are family or close friends. Just this last week a friend asked if he could borrow my truck to grab some firewood. The only third party I am concerned about is my insurance company, but luckily they haven't had a problem with it because the use is incidental and the person has their own insurance. My truck manufacturer can take a long walk off a short bridge, ever since they proved to me that they couldn't maintain my truck correctly and I took it to another mechanic that could.
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Re: Re: Re: Abolish copyright
At least he is consistent. Consistently wrong, but consistent.
I just can't wait until he starts accusing Techdirt of commercially profiting from illegally exploiting artists works because we talk about it here and there are ads on the page.
Lowery, repeat after me, Pirate Bay does not distribute copyright works. They point to others that do, but they don't themselves. (While it is doubtful he'll listen, at least someone else coming here might become more intelligent if we keep saying it.)
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Re: Re: Re: Much better than part 1
What does this have to do with anything I or the previous AC said? If you are going to hijack our thread, at least try to stay on topic please.
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Re: Much better than part 1
I agree. Both of these articles are well written, but I was not sure where Larry was going yesterday either. I look forward to reading more.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Bu, bu, but . . . . Piracy!
To be fair, there still is Mythbusters and Game of Thrones.
I can see why its taken DannyB this long.
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Your definitely bringing me back. I seem to remember there being a huge quake that broke up a bunch of states, and there was a Northern California (which became the California Free State) and Southern California (which parts became Azteca,) with Northern California having a President, and Southern California being a wasteland with no center of power. At the time I was playing, I lived in Northern California, so most of the games took place there in the California Free State.
I don't remember Snake Plissken as part of the game though.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: He's one of 10 reverse-engineers
I kinda gathered from reading the summary and the article that they didn't compromise the security in as much as they bought the product, learned how to use it from the tech manuals, and used a logic probe to figure out what it actually did, and then sat down with the lawyers and figured out which of their patents it violated.
It is really sad, and a waste of good engineers, but something tells me that these guys probably weren't good engineers to begin with. I might be wrong, I often am, but as an engineer, sitting down all the time and talking to lawyers and not creating or working on products or making other people's lives worthwhile or better isn't my idea of a worthwhile engineering pursuit.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: He's one of 10 reverse-engineers
True. True.
What I meant is that so long as you don't decrypt someone's ROT13 encoded copyrighted media (DMCA) or violate some trademark or patent, or stuff like that, you're ok. Clean-room reverse-engineering is the best, but there is also other just as legal though more grey methods of reverse-engineering.
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Wikipedia Entry on Shadowrun
I am going from years' old memory on this but I played Shadowrun back in the late 80s and early 90s, and the story goes that on the end of the Mayan Long Count, December 20th, 2012, latent and forgotten capabilities of Magic in the human genome all-the-sudden turn back on in a large group of humans. Thus, in 7 months, if the world portrayed in the game is the same as this world, we all get some form of magic back. And dragons return. And people turn into Orcs, Trolls, Goblins, and we start having Elves and Dwarves as children, and everything. It was a modern urban fantasy. Fun game too.
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Well, some of us here have already started to turn into Trolls.
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Re: Re: Re: He's one of 10 reverse-engineers
Both could theoretically get you executed. Privateering was a little less risky so long as you didn't take out the ships of the country you were hired by or countries that weren't at war with that country. William Kidd was hanged for taking out English ships.
The same could be true for freelance assassins vs state assassins, freelance gun runners and the Department of Homeland Security, etc. I like it though...now I can go into my boss and demand a pay raise because I am a freelance reverse-engineer.
Reverse-engineering is still very much a gray area in the law...it usually is legal unless you violate the law, and there is a minefield of laws that could be violated.
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You aren't alone. Several of us made the same connection. I was looking back at previous comments, and I could swear they made a comment about being an artist in a previous article in response to me, along with the same statement of "if you only knew who I am." I challenged them before to name themselves...but they didn't respond. Anyone can be an anonymous troll on the internet, but it takes huge balls to be a named troll.
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Oh, I am sorry, when you said "Ha, ha. If you only knew who I was." I figured you were an artist that we cared about. My bad.
I'm sure it's some comfort to your collective delusion to assume they are either stupid or forced into label slavery
You do realize that there is more than one speaker here. I never said anything about artists being stupid or forced into label slavery. I was just pointing out that the other anonymous coward said something that you seemed to miss in your reply, about being more than one AC present in the discussion.
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The problem is that you receive a snowflake every time you post a comment to the same article, and when those match, we can figure out it is you. Unless, of course, you are using the same proxy server as another poster, and both posting anonymously.
You show up as a red circle with an X through it, and have said previously that you are a musician of some stature. Since you have spoken previously, and you have said that the Anonymous Coward you are replying to, who does not have your snowflake is the only person here who knows what their talking about, I believe the other Anonymous Coward's comment is correct. I do often time have to explain other people's punchlines, even when everyone else gets it, and I am usually the life of the party (as if that really needs a /sarc tag.)
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Re: Re: Saw this clueless kneejerk coming.
I believe the words to the song are:
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste,
I've been around for a long, long year,
Stole many a mans soul and faith...
-- Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil
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Re: Piracy Excuse #37
Another vote for the sad but true button. I still marked it funny but the fact that some of us have to resort to piracy just to play the game we already spent good money buying is more sad and less funny.
I stopped buying published games because I got tired of being told I was a bad guy for spending good money buying the game in the first place. Now it is GoG, open source, freeware, and to somewhat less of an extent, Steam games for me. When I install a brand spanking new (never been installed,) copy of Halo 2 that I bought many years ago direct from Microsoft, and it tells me I installed it on too many computers, that is when I have to say the game is over. Especially when Microsoft even admitted to me that it wasn't a problem with the game, but with the OS I had decided to install it on (64-bit Windows 7) that was the problem.
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Re: you're != your
I'm sorry. While others choose to continue reading the entirety of the summary, despite the failure, you prefer to remain blissfully ignorant due to a single error. I have to ask, with all due respect; do you also throw the baby out with the bathwater?
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I actually liked Dollhouse (ok, so to each their own.) A little too much like La Femme Nikita, but it wasn't bad. Not Firefly or Buffy, but the humor was there and the writing wasn't bad. Whedon would have my support too, but then again, he's had it in the past. I'd love to see more straight to DVD stuff from him though, and bypass the idiots in Hollywood and give the fans what they want instead. Or start doing stuff like Nerdist/Geek & Sundry and start his own channel.
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I wear no pants...
The Poxy Boggards are awesome!!!
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+1...I loved Diablo/Diablo II (which I paid for three copies of each including the expansion, on for each computer that I used so that I could play with friends,) as well as Warcraft 1-3 and Starcraft. I have not bought Blizzard since, partly because of the stupid and arrogant stance they took against BNETD and partly because of the DRM. No Starcraft II, and no Diablo III, and certainly no WoW. I'll stick with GoG/Torchlight/etc.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Blame Game
I routinely share my car with others that are family or close friends. Just this last week a friend asked if he could borrow my truck to grab some firewood. The only third party I am concerned about is my insurance company, but luckily they haven't had a problem with it because the use is incidental and the person has their own insurance. My truck manufacturer can take a long walk off a short bridge, ever since they proved to me that they couldn't maintain my truck correctly and I took it to another mechanic that could.
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