Clearly the UK government doesn't understand the ramnifications of this decision. Especially privacy wise. This ad-company will get to know everything from the ISP-user (where they live (google earth/maps-search, their shopping habits)). It's bad enough that the ISP has access to that kind of information, but now an ad-agency too?
See these 'reviews' as a sort of caveat emptor / buyers beware message...
Fact is, the DRM inside Spore is horrendous. And fact is, many people got burned by that DRM.
Fact is, people got angry at EA, since Spore was much anticipated, and now killed by EA's moronic decision to include said horrendous DRM into the game, making a game that potentially could last for years, into a rental game, where EA can decide to just kill the game at any time. (By killing the authentication servers) EA has no obligations to you as a customer, they already have your money.
that congress didn't listen to the public? That's new(!)
It's depressing, how politicians seem to see the public that voted them into office as nothing more than *sswipes.
the suits when talking about bandwidth shortage, they actually mean the last mile. :)
Nah, unlikely, that'd be customer driven, and it's quite clear that ISP's couldn't care less about their customers.
If that ever happens, the networks will realize that they can make a lot of bucks that way, because we'd have to pay for each viewing of those shows. :)
So, hush about this, we don't want to give the networks any funny ideas that they could be filthy rich.
Nowhere in this piece do I read the advice of "don't punish your kids".
Just that kids should be taught, how to work with the web responsibly. And teaching kids is part of parenthood.
And yes, that means punishing bad behaviour and rewarding good behaviour.
I've heard from a number of people that they downloaded it off of bittorrent after it was fully aired in other countries, because they couldn't wait until NBC finally showed it on the web or on tv.
This type of stuff has been happening for years now.
During the most recent World Cup of Soccer/Football, fans wearing a piece of clothing of a certain brand of beer was not allowed in the stadiums, because the brand hadn't paid for sponsorship.
And I believe that in the previous Olympic Games it also happened.
The IOC is not about the games anymore, it's about money, greed and power.
I thought that NBC was using the Olympics to gather metrics on viewership online... but how did they expect to get any useful metrics if they cannibalized their own online offerings?
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I can...
Indeed, languages evolve... otherwise it'd be a dead language.
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Governments + tech == disaster
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Re: Ahem
I think not.
Illegal == illegal.
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Fact is, the DRM inside Spore is horrendous. And fact is, many people got burned by that DRM.
Fact is, people got angry at EA, since Spore was much anticipated, and now killed by EA's moronic decision to include said horrendous DRM into the game, making a game that potentially could last for years, into a rental game, where EA can decide to just kill the game at any time. (By killing the authentication servers) EA has no obligations to you as a customer, they already have your money.
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You mean...
It's depressing, how politicians seem to see the public that voted them into office as nothing more than *sswipes.
Time for a new (r)evolution?
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But Matt, can you help me out here? In which sentence in above article, does Mike say he's non-partisan?
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Re: No.
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Perhaps
Nah, unlikely, that'd be customer driven, and it's quite clear that ISP's couldn't care less about their customers.
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Re: Still tunning in
So, hush about this, we don't want to give the networks any funny ideas that they could be filthy rich.
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Re: Re: Re: I have to disagree with the cartographer on this one.
There will always be space for a cartographer
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Re: The 80s wants their parental psychology back
Just that kids should be taught, how to work with the web responsibly. And teaching kids is part of parenthood.
And yes, that means punishing bad behaviour and rewarding good behaviour.
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Re: No they havn't given up on DRM
You do realize that when you stop paying those 15 bucks, you lose access to those files?
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NBC was not the only provider...
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Re: Re: As a non-RIAA artist
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During the most recent World Cup of Soccer/Football, fans wearing a piece of clothing of a certain brand of beer was not allowed in the stadiums, because the brand hadn't paid for sponsorship.
And I believe that in the previous Olympic Games it also happened.
The IOC is not about the games anymore, it's about money, greed and power.
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Metrics?
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A copying machine lets users copy whole sections from books. Let's sue Xerox!
A decent camera can reproduce works of art quite well. Let's sue Canon and Nixon!
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