I'm of the personal opinion that the average person declared legally incompetent likely could have put together a more coherent narrative to defend a point, myself...
The problem is the do not show again does not keep it out of your search results, just off your front page, and I've managed to prove, with screen shots, that you can't get through the game pile faster than the game pile grows (because the same names keep showing up again and again on later pages.) I'd honestly kill for the ability to say "No DLC or software, has Mixed or Better reviews, and is under this price point" at the same time.
As someone who is a tech who's options are 1.5 Mbit or less "DSL" or satalite... Oh we're -aware- and pretty much bent over backwards because we can't afford to put in our own service individually, and there's absolutely zero visible effort to fix the suburban much less rural like my area connections.
We're aware, we're pissed, and there's about jack and shit we can do about it."
... Except in this case, it looks like it is possible that they did install a buggy rootkit on their own servers. And given a server is nothing more than a computer, it can be rootkited or malwared just like any other computer. (The fact a security audit -caught- it and then stink flew actually makes this scenario sadly more plausible.
Some companies will either force or nag you to change to business class if you go over a certain amount of usage. Particularly if you are hosting a server of any kind on your end (Like, say, you play minecraft as the host machine.)
Honestly? In this case they did something more despicable: They put at risk the actual machine that the game is installed on. Which they had no hand in creating.
So who's going to file these counter-claims when they generate URLs that do not point at valid anything? I'd rather just give the DMCA its original presumed teeth back: You file one that contains bogus information beyond 'I have the right to this copyright, it -still- counts as perjury.
... If I wanted to make sure my audience never heard about the issue I'd write my removal program to remove mentions about it... So program working as planned?
This guy is sueing because the players (kids or otherwise) tried -not- to trespass, simply by, you know, asking first? I'm trying to decide who the stupid is in this article and I'm for once thinking the -kids- aren't the stupid ones...
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Offer to teach them how to fill out a form that is really not that difficult to do? It's easier than getting an account here at techdirt. (Note, it still takes time after such is filed for someone to get to it. Small company, LOTS of those to filter through...)
So what happens if you use one of those fancy card organizers that stores multiple cards on one chunk of plastic? user programmable is the whole point of those...
It's my machine. It's my choice what content I load onto it. Loading ads takes appreciable bandwidth (I'm on rural DSL, bandwidth is at a premium around here...). I do whitelist some sites. Usually ones that have gone above and beyond to get rid of autoplaying or otherwise pain in the ass ads.
When advertising goes back to being as intrusive as it is in a print newspaper for the whole web, I'll consider turning off my adblock and privacy badger. Until then? Nope.
So, this applies to any consumer device that allows someone to make a playlist or otherwise control the track playing... I think an argument for prior art can be made: See Winamp, and any number of other pre-existing players.
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Odd wording...
Yes, but what about improper access? Or are you going to just pretend that it wasn't just proven that 'improper' access can happen?
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Re: If only they knew.
We're aware, we're pissed, and there's about jack and shit we can do about it."
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Re: MB is smoking the wacky weed.
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*Checks clock and GPS and what not*
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huh
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So wait...
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Can we get a round of applause?
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Huh.
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Tell you what:
When advertising goes back to being as intrusive as it is in a print newspaper for the whole web, I'll consider turning off my adblock and privacy badger. Until then? Nope.
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