Never bought Premium PS Network, and everything worked fine. It's not like they gave you "better internet" for having a premium account, instead they gave you other perks.
Yeah, it's starting to look like a bunch of hyperbole on Cloudflare's part. But that's silly, they wouldn't gain anything from scare mongering... oh wait! They do!
Then if movies are worth $10 which we both agree on here, under your logic, pirates should be treated in the same way as someone else who shoplifted or steals $10 worth of stuff. Not sentenced to jail time with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines, yes?
The fact is all it takes is an accusation and nothing more. Why should ISP's punish innocent users just because an industry can't get their shit together?
Accusations do not a criminal make. Send them to court if you have to, but do not put innocent people in the cross hairs in order to fight a problem you can't erase.
"In addition, the punishment (in some cases, the loss of internet service) seems to greatly outweigh the crime."
Should be rewritten as "...seems to greatly outweigh the crime, or lack thereof."
There is no "crime" being committed because it is all based on accusations, there is no proof, and there is no process of law in which a court finds you guilty.
Well actually, this mod is for players who actually legally purchased the game, at least for now. Since without going online, you can't save your game.
It probably got through due to little to no oversight in the EU patent application process, similar to the broad patents handed out in the US that clearly shouldn't be patented.
I don't know enough about EU copyright/patent law to know if or how it can be busted.
I disagree. Patents and Copyright needs to be transferable under the current system so it can be used by those who would actually use it rather than be locked up for 100+ years without anyone being able to use it. Though, I suppose licenses could be used, but that would have it's own slew of problems as well.
Here's an excerpt from the article you must have missed: "Moreover, it is of course implemented in software; given that Article 52 of the European Patent Convention explicitly excludes "programs for computers" from patentability, the fact that the EPO granted a patent here is an early example of how it circumvented that exclusion because a computer was used to run that software (well, doh.)"
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Should be rewritten as "...seems to greatly outweigh the crime, or lack thereof."
There is no "crime" being committed because it is all based on accusations, there is no proof, and there is no process of law in which a court finds you guilty.
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I don't know enough about EU copyright/patent law to know if or how it can be busted.
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Here's an excerpt from the article you must have missed: "Moreover, it is of course implemented in software; given that Article 52 of the European Patent Convention explicitly excludes "programs for computers" from patentability, the fact that the EPO granted a patent here is an early example of how it circumvented that exclusion because a computer was used to run that software (well, doh.)"
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