That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 May 2019 @ 5:58am
"if Denuvo could protect a game for mere weeks, or even days, then it was still worth it."
Imagine if instead of spending the money on the DRM, they paid to get a few more coders to squish the bugs that we've all come to expect in a AAA release.
Shocking would be a game that works out of the box & not only after several months of patches fixing things that should have never shipped.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2019 @ 3:49pm
"probably illegal"
And a whole bunch of people signed off on doing this & failed at every possible level.
How about some transparency for everyone to see how badly they went out of their way to break the law so that when they get charged & fired the arbitrator can't put them back on the force.
Will this incident be recorded on their discipline records so the public can be away of officers willing to ignore the law when it suits them & the danger interacting with them could lead to?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2019 @ 11:59am
Perhaps the real pirates are inside the businesses just distracting everyone from how much they are looting.
Pity we can't nudge Congress to actually pass laws that make sense, & clean up the giant mess they helped create.
They did everything right & still got screwed by the law... how does that help artists they claim the law is supposed to protect?
Some asshole actually stole their song & profited, while they were chasing kids who didn't want to pay for the whole cd for just 1 song. The biggest thieves are the industry, not the public.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2019 @ 11:51am
"the entire framing of the bill is based on the idea that those who sue for copyright infringement only do so when they have valid claims"
If only there were a case where the Feds took some copyright trolls who abused the system to the woodshed... o_O
I think we need to demand they use actual evidence when crafting laws, as opposed to the whining of cartel members who have been enjoying such success despite the decades of claiming they were being robbed blind.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 May 2019 @ 5:41pm
It would be a pity if this drove the teams to cut their contracts with all of the gatekeepers & only used music freely available without all the strings. Then any clips they post online would only have music no one would launch claims about.
We're losing millions because of 10 seconds of sound in a clip online!!!
Oh shit we lost everything because we pissed off a customer with enough money & power to walk away & never pay us ever again.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 May 2019 @ 5:28am
"As long as I am in charge, I will make sure we don’t spend another dime with them. This is ridiculous. https://t.co/xEBnSAMwUj"
It was SO HORRIBLE, I shared a link to it, creating more coverage of it!
Or maybe I was hoping the legion of fans for my team will swoop in and harass him for daring to upset his betters.
Mr. McGowan,
If this tweet upset you this much... log off the internet and never return. People will say mean things about you, your team, your hair, all sorts of things... You are a public figure.
The OMG WE'LL NEVER ADVERTISE WITH THEM AGAIN!!!
Well that shows the public you are a thin skinned child, liable to lash out unless people only ever say nice things about you.
Stop emulating our toddler in chief & grow up.
Unless of course you wanted everyone to think you are a petty child, in that case carry on... but don't be shocked if your tantrums cost you the good will of your fanbase.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2019 @ 6:35pm
Laws are only meant to keep the little people silent and complacent.
Your corporate betters have deemed these websites as enemies of the corporate state.
We do not have to answer to you! (despite the fact that you not the corporate masters pay all of the costs)
How DARE you challenge our press releases by demanding facts!
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2019 @ 6:30pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Yeah, WE KNOW the "evidence": it's you
It was something that came up during his campagin, he was shouting how loved he was & someone looked at the filing to see it was him pumping up his alleged popularity.
I feel he's a gifted scammer & often gets a pass b/c of the 'white guilt' once he trots out the its a conspiracy to keep the dark man down. Its the same sort of thing that sets people into a rage when anyone questions a rape accusation, that its totally unfair & evil... yet the silence when it turns out the 'victim' was lying.
Because a real victim was ignored in history, we have to rebalance the universal scales by accepting all claims as 100% true to 'make up' for our past transgressions.
The problem is it also keeps us from moving forward as we have to keep rehashing the past over & over, allowing it to cloud the facts in other cases.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2019 @ 5:22am
Re: Re: Yeah, WE KNOW the "evidence": it's your attack that was
Shiva's a millionaire?
[CITATION NEEDED]
I mean its not like he put out a press release talking about huge donations to his campagin that turned to be in kind donations from his own companies to himself from himself...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2019 @ 5:16am
Re: Re:
So they treated it like a AAA game that they rushed to market that was bug riddled crap but the DLC was already on the disc waiting for another payment?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2019 @ 7:47pm
“If players run into this issue, they should contact player support so we can investigate.”
Notice the wording.
We still need to investigate, because you are a criminal until we decide otherwise.
We ran a sale & OMG people buy things on sale.
Rather than get a chargeback & then nuke your account from orbit, we've decided to be as hostile as possible to you.
You do not matter, the almighty dollar matters, and if you give us to many dollars WE WILL PUNISH YOU!
Perhaps the proper response is to contact player support & ask what their policy is about refunding entire accounts.
Suspending accounts on imaginary possible violations triggered b/c you were to to good of a customer says everything you need to know about this platform.
They might have exclusives, but if you can't buy it how useful is it?
They've managed to fail at the most basic thing for a gaming platform, selling you stuff.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2019 @ 6:32pm
Re:
When a mommy AA and a daddy AA love money very much, they spend money to buy extensions to laws so that a cartoon mouse, who has already had all of the promised benefits, will not fall into the public domain b/c the lawyers told them if this happens their empires will cease to exist.
Yeah the governments response literally was GFY pirate bastard.
(There is this thing where people want to believe lawyers would never do the things we said they were doing & you have to provide 12 tons of evidence to get them to even consider it.)
Then Judge Wright channeled the Star Trek & told the government to do something.
Then they sued the scoobys & the internet, then shit got real.
The better part of a decade pushing this boulder up a hill...
and the best fix the government has offered to date is lets make a rocket docket with lower filing fees so they can shake down people faster.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2019 @ 6:24pm
Re: Re: Re: Where's a cloning machine when you need one...
Its really hard to suggest that a female accountholder is a porn addict who was 'stealing' the pron at the center of the lolsuit.
They often try to amend the lawsuit to add the name of the BF/SO/Spouse/Male child b/c (shocking) having a penis means you like the porn.
They will demand a list of everyone with a penis who has been in your home so they can harass them & investigate them for having done it... all based on some numbers & owning a penis.
They have trolled the Facebook profiles of those they accuse & lets say you liked a post about GoT, they would provide a list of everything else they claim you stole from everyone else & if GoT was on the list BAM proof positive they are a pirate & need to pay us. (This was done... a lot until the courts finally got upset.)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2019 @ 6:17pm
I style myself as a fighter against copyright trolls, but I never claim to be the only or the first. I express 'outrage' when people reporting on it never mention me, the 'always a bridesmaid' comments are born out of that. Most of this is in how I present myself, until they get to know me people are unsure about me (and even then still sorta always cautious). While I am noticed for comments on copyright I also pop up in 1st Amendment, stories about teh gays, legal stupidity, broken systems comments... one could say my 'brand' has expanded and evolved over time.
I suppose if the only thing I had ever done was called into question & my self delusions supporting how important it were torn away, I might lash out like a toddler.
He did a thing, an amazing thing most would agree, writing a program at the (ever shifting) age that was used.
This became the cornerstone to his entire image, the sad thing is rather than using his skill to evolve & expand he has 1 thing & he is gonna ride it until the end of time.
He did all sorts of 'work' not based on his skill but the cornerstone of being the progenitor of email.
Today he sells books promoting spices to cure diabetes & ran for office using the same tactics he alleges others used against him. He invests much time and money to protect his cornerstone, he expects that he is owed a level of fame today based on what he did as a child. He can't succeed because the military industrial complex & the white men have to keep him down, not because his cornerstone is shaky & he has a proven history of 'misleading' people about himself.
He never married Fran Drescher, despite claiming they were & then backpeddling it into a very private event between friends.
He never did the domestic violence!!! Except we have the booking photo and the charges listed.
He left a prestigious job in India, it wasn't because he ignored the hierarchy of the group, send insulting emails, & behaved poorly.
He invented E-MAIL er E-mail er e-mail er Email er email, and didn't peak before he was 20 & rested on the laurels he imagined he deserved.
He lost jobs because of these false claims he didn't create email, not because he is abrasive, demands fealty to his dominion as 'Father of Email', & keeps trying to drag them into his one man war to protect his cornerstone at the expense of their reputation.
He wrote a program at a young age & since then has expended all of his possible talent to prop up the fantasy. How horrible is must feel to have peaked as a child & still not being given parades because decades later the only thing you've done with your life is to point out the 1 thing you did as a child & demand everyone else treat you like a king.
On the post: Congress Now Pushing 'Bring Back The Patent Trolls' Bill
Who wants to help me get a patent shoved through on running for an elected office & accepting money to pass laws favorable to those paying me??
Considering what other patent trolls have earned we could bankrupt congress.
On the post: Government Prosecutor Caught Sending Emails With Tracking Software To Reporters And Defense Attorneys
When you've enjoyed doing whatever to people once you call them a terrorist or leaker, you forget the law actually exists.
On the post: Rage 2 Drops Denuvo In Record Time After Customer Outcry
"if Denuvo could protect a game for mere weeks, or even days, then it was still worth it."
Imagine if instead of spending the money on the DRM, they paid to get a few more coders to squish the bugs that we've all come to expect in a AAA release.
Shocking would be a game that works out of the box & not only after several months of patches fixing things that should have never shipped.
On the post: SFPD Finally Admits The Search Of A Journalist's Home Over A Leaked Document Was Probably Illegal
"probably illegal"
And a whole bunch of people signed off on doing this & failed at every possible level.
How about some transparency for everyone to see how badly they went out of their way to break the law so that when they get charged & fired the arbitrator can't put them back on the force.
Will this incident be recorded on their discipline records so the public can be away of officers willing to ignore the law when it suits them & the danger interacting with them could lead to?
On the post: Conservative Bias? Twitter Bans Famous 'Resistance' Heroes
FALSE FLAG!!!!!!!!!!
They are just doing this so our Lord and Savior Trump doesn't force Twitter to bring back the conservatives!!!
On the post: A True Story Of 'Copyright Piracy': Why The Verve Will Only Start Getting Royalties Now For Bittersweet Symphony
Perhaps the real pirates are inside the businesses just distracting everyone from how much they are looting.
Pity we can't nudge Congress to actually pass laws that make sense, & clean up the giant mess they helped create.
They did everything right & still got screwed by the law... how does that help artists they claim the law is supposed to protect?
Some asshole actually stole their song & profited, while they were chasing kids who didn't want to pay for the whole cd for just 1 song. The biggest thieves are the industry, not the public.
On the post: Why Is Congress Moving Forward With Its Plan To Encourage Copyright Trolling?
"the entire framing of the bill is based on the idea that those who sue for copyright infringement only do so when they have valid claims"
If only there were a case where the Feds took some copyright trolls who abused the system to the woodshed... o_O
I think we need to demand they use actual evidence when crafting laws, as opposed to the whining of cartel members who have been enjoying such success despite the decades of claiming they were being robbed blind.
On the post: Several Pro And College Sports Teams Suspended From Twitter Over Mystery DMCA Notices
It would be a pity if this drove the teams to cut their contracts with all of the gatekeepers & only used music freely available without all the strings. Then any clips they post online would only have music no one would launch claims about.
We're losing millions because of 10 seconds of sound in a clip online!!!
Oh shit we lost everything because we pissed off a customer with enough money & power to walk away & never pay us ever again.
On the post: Portland Trailblazers Streisand Stupid Local Article Into National Spotlight For No Reason At All
"As long as I am in charge, I will make sure we don’t spend another dime with them. This is ridiculous. https://t.co/xEBnSAMwUj"
It was SO HORRIBLE, I shared a link to it, creating more coverage of it!
Or maybe I was hoping the legion of fans for my team will swoop in and harass him for daring to upset his betters.
Mr. McGowan,
If this tweet upset you this much... log off the internet and never return. People will say mean things about you, your team, your hair, all sorts of things... You are a public figure.
The OMG WE'LL NEVER ADVERTISE WITH THEM AGAIN!!!
Well that shows the public you are a thin skinned child, liable to lash out unless people only ever say nice things about you.
Stop emulating our toddler in chief & grow up.
Unless of course you wanted everyone to think you are a petty child, in that case carry on... but don't be shocked if your tantrums cost you the good will of your fanbase.
On the post: Techdirt Sues ICE After It Insists It Has No Records Of The 1 Million Domains It Claims To Have Seized
Laws are only meant to keep the little people silent and complacent.
Your corporate betters have deemed these websites as enemies of the corporate state.
We do not have to answer to you! (despite the fact that you not the corporate masters pay all of the costs)
How DARE you challenge our press releases by demanding facts!
On the post: Ajit Pai May Have Lied To Congress About FCC's Failure To Address Wireless Location Data Scandals
... and I MIGHT have had a penis in my mouth before...
o_O
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
Re: Re: Re: Re: Yeah, WE KNOW the "evidence": it's you
It was something that came up during his campagin, he was shouting how loved he was & someone looked at the filing to see it was him pumping up his alleged popularity.
I feel he's a gifted scammer & often gets a pass b/c of the 'white guilt' once he trots out the its a conspiracy to keep the dark man down. Its the same sort of thing that sets people into a rage when anyone questions a rape accusation, that its totally unfair & evil... yet the silence when it turns out the 'victim' was lying.
Because a real victim was ignored in history, we have to rebalance the universal scales by accepting all claims as 100% true to 'make up' for our past transgressions.
The problem is it also keeps us from moving forward as we have to keep rehashing the past over & over, allowing it to cloud the facts in other cases.
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
Re: Re: Yeah, WE KNOW the "evidence": it's your attack that was
Shiva's a millionaire?
[CITATION NEEDED]
I mean its not like he put out a press release talking about huge donations to his campagin that turned to be in kind donations from his own companies to himself from himself...
On the post: Gaming Platform War Update: Epic Games Store Suspends Accounts... For Buying Too Many Games
Re: Re:
So they treated it like a AAA game that they rushed to market that was bug riddled crap but the DLC was already on the disc waiting for another payment?
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
Re: Re: Re: Re: This should be a book
What wife?
He never married her despite claiming they had married.
Later the claim was it was some sort of ceremony between friends.
On the post: Gaming Platform War Update: Epic Games Store Suspends Accounts... For Buying Too Many Games
“If players run into this issue, they should contact player support so we can investigate.”
Notice the wording.
We still need to investigate, because you are a criminal until we decide otherwise.
We ran a sale & OMG people buy things on sale.
Rather than get a chargeback & then nuke your account from orbit, we've decided to be as hostile as possible to you.
You do not matter, the almighty dollar matters, and if you give us to many dollars WE WILL PUNISH YOU!
Perhaps the proper response is to contact player support & ask what their policy is about refunding entire accounts.
Suspending accounts on imaginary possible violations triggered b/c you were to to good of a customer says everything you need to know about this platform.
They might have exclusives, but if you can't buy it how useful is it?
They've managed to fail at the most basic thing for a gaming platform, selling you stuff.
On the post: US Magistrate Judge Provides The Template To End Copyright Trolling With Ruling Against Strike 3
Re:
When a mommy AA and a daddy AA love money very much, they spend money to buy extensions to laws so that a cartoon mouse, who has already had all of the promised benefits, will not fall into the public domain b/c the lawyers told them if this happens their empires will cease to exist.
Yeah the governments response literally was GFY pirate bastard.
(There is this thing where people want to believe lawyers would never do the things we said they were doing & you have to provide 12 tons of evidence to get them to even consider it.)
Then Judge Wright channeled the Star Trek & told the government to do something.
Then they sued the scoobys & the internet, then shit got real.
The better part of a decade pushing this boulder up a hill...
and the best fix the government has offered to date is lets make a rocket docket with lower filing fees so they can shake down people faster.
On the post: US Magistrate Judge Provides The Template To End Copyright Trolling With Ruling Against Strike 3
Re: Re: Re: Where's a cloning machine when you need one...
Its really hard to suggest that a female accountholder is a porn addict who was 'stealing' the pron at the center of the lolsuit.
They often try to amend the lawsuit to add the name of the BF/SO/Spouse/Male child b/c (shocking) having a penis means you like the porn.
They will demand a list of everyone with a penis who has been in your home so they can harass them & investigate them for having done it... all based on some numbers & owning a penis.
They have trolled the Facebook profiles of those they accuse & lets say you liked a post about GoT, they would provide a list of everything else they claim you stole from everyone else & if GoT was on the list BAM proof positive they are a pirate & need to pay us. (This was done... a lot until the courts finally got upset.)
On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email
I style myself as a fighter against copyright trolls, but I never claim to be the only or the first. I express 'outrage' when people reporting on it never mention me, the 'always a bridesmaid' comments are born out of that. Most of this is in how I present myself, until they get to know me people are unsure about me (and even then still sorta always cautious). While I am noticed for comments on copyright I also pop up in 1st Amendment, stories about teh gays, legal stupidity, broken systems comments... one could say my 'brand' has expanded and evolved over time.
I suppose if the only thing I had ever done was called into question & my self delusions supporting how important it were torn away, I might lash out like a toddler.
He did a thing, an amazing thing most would agree, writing a program at the (ever shifting) age that was used.
This became the cornerstone to his entire image, the sad thing is rather than using his skill to evolve & expand he has 1 thing & he is gonna ride it until the end of time.
He did all sorts of 'work' not based on his skill but the cornerstone of being the progenitor of email.
Today he sells books promoting spices to cure diabetes & ran for office using the same tactics he alleges others used against him. He invests much time and money to protect his cornerstone, he expects that he is owed a level of fame today based on what he did as a child. He can't succeed because the military industrial complex & the white men have to keep him down, not because his cornerstone is shaky & he has a proven history of 'misleading' people about himself.
He never married Fran Drescher, despite claiming they were & then backpeddling it into a very private event between friends.
He never did the domestic violence!!! Except we have the booking photo and the charges listed.
He left a prestigious job in India, it wasn't because he ignored the hierarchy of the group, send insulting emails, & behaved poorly.
He invented E-MAIL er E-mail er e-mail er Email er email, and didn't peak before he was 20 & rested on the laurels he imagined he deserved.
He lost jobs because of these false claims he didn't create email, not because he is abrasive, demands fealty to his dominion as 'Father of Email', & keeps trying to drag them into his one man war to protect his cornerstone at the expense of their reputation.
He wrote a program at a young age & since then has expended all of his possible talent to prop up the fantasy. How horrible is must feel to have peaked as a child & still not being given parades because decades later the only thing you've done with your life is to point out the 1 thing you did as a child & demand everyone else treat you like a king.
On the post: Big Pharma Companies Accused Of Conspiring To Inflate Prices Of Over 100 Generic Drugs By Up To 1000%
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Threaded, the on you should turn it...
I'm the first poster in this thread.
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