I for one would like to thank Morality in Media for assembling a list of new and exciting ways for me to find porn. Thank you, Morality in Media, for making life easier for porn swilling depraved cave dwellers everywhere.
So this really isn't good for Steele. Not sure how material any of that stuff is even if it's true. Let's take as a given for argument sake that Alan Cooper has mental issues (I, as a general rule, doubt anything Steele files, this is just for arguments' sake), so what? Being a headcase doesn't make one guilty.
The document Steele filled shows Steele in control of the day-to-day operations of the porn company, and as others have pointed out earlier, it makes both Cooper and Steele out to be liars when they represented that the gardener was not in fact the Alan Cooper in charge of AF Holdings. I don't get it, how does this help him? Why did he file? This is cutting off nose (making Cooper out to be a nut) to spite face (providing evidence that Steele is actually running this).
then that Origin isn't successful (ignoring the massive security flaw)
The problem with Origin isn't the security flaw. That was bad and dumb and whatnot, but that isn't what makes Origin suck. It's Origin that makes Origin suck.
As a delivery mechanism and game mgmt tool it's idiotic. Consider by comparison Steam. While Steam is not perfect, it's done for distribution of games what iTunes did for distribution of music. It's brilliant, and game changing.
Origin, by comparison, is a poorly executed "me-too" afterthought. I didn't buy Mass Effect 3 simply to avoid Origin. I would have. I bought ME2 on Steam. I played ME3, EA just didn't get my money because of Origin. I know many similar (albeit anecdotal) stories.
Moore implies that the number of subscribers to their mandatory game management platform indicates success. Is it though? Should the passport office point to the number of people with passports as an indication of people's desire to have a passport? Or how awesome it is to wait in lines to submit a form? Or is it an indication that people will deal with bullshit to travel?
His points regarding Origin can be summed up as "fuck you we're making money". This is typically a death knell for companies as it means they're leveraging their current position. This strategy has a shelf life, customer good will must be continually "topped up" not "borrowed against". That some of his other points carry the same underlying message does not bode well for EA's shareholders.
In civil cases inferences can be drawn from pleading the fifth by the defendant. Per wikipedia:
While defendants are entitled to assert that right, there are consequences to the assertion of the Fifth Amendment in a civil action.
The Supreme Court has held that “the Fifth Amendment does not forbid adverse inferences against parties to civil actions when they refuse to testify in response to probative evidence offered against them.” Baxter v. Palmigiano, “[A]s Mr. Justice Brandeis declared, speaking for a unanimous court in the Tod case, ‘Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character.’” “‘Failure to contest an assertion...is considered evidence of acquiescence...if it would have been natural under the circumstances to object to the assertion in question.’”
Not sure how this applies to parties in a show cause order though. Anyway, looks like Judge Wright feels he has sufficient evidence anyways, just wanted to have given them a shot at explaining the evidence.
DDoS'ing a site (which may or MAY NOT have had knock on effects for others) for a period of time is very different from undercutting the fundamental technologies of the internet.
Mike has been pretty consistent in his take on DDoS.
Re: Hmm, and yet you're indifferent to Google and Microsoft
Yup, they're totally colluding. When Balmer said "I'm going to f#$%ing kill Google" what he really meant is "We should raise our prices based on the number of chairs I throw, minus the radius of my pit stains at the next Microsoft conference". Sing the truth, sister!
...I see estimated GAAP (i.e. lower than non-GAAP) operating income of $3.57bn, and expected EBITDA (which historically tracks Dell’s non-GAAP...
...a pro forma leverage multiple of under 4x with a $19 billion debt load...
...we need you to agree to share X% of your profits over $13.65 per share with us because you would not have received those profits if we hadn’t bid...
While the technical issues, obviously imminent from the outset to anyone with a few brain cells to rub together, are in and of themselves a big fail, the double down in terms of lying is the big corporate fail.
While us "freetards" (I include myself) hate DRM and realise its stupidity, the lying to customers after fucking the whole thing up really undercuts their position and portrays their idiocy.
If I were a shareholder I'd be screaming for blood.
I don't think I'd describe it as an action movie. It's a suspense/drama, I guess?
The historical inaccuracies are not small: downplaying the role of the Canadians, portraying the Kiwis and Brits as unhelpful when they stuck their necks out too, portraying the whole thing as more tense/skin of the teeth than it was (care chase at airport), portraying the administration as against the operation causing Ben Affleck to go all mavericky, when none of that happened. Certainly this lends the film a propagandistic whiff, in terms of playing up the contributions of the CIA and Hollywood.
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How to drive a programmer nuts...
You're killing me!
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Credit where credit is due
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Or
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Weird
The document Steele filled shows Steele in control of the day-to-day operations of the porn company, and as others have pointed out earlier, it makes both Cooper and Steele out to be liars when they represented that the gardener was not in fact the Alan Cooper in charge of AF Holdings. I don't get it, how does this help him? Why did he file? This is cutting off nose (making Cooper out to be a nut) to spite face (providing evidence that Steele is actually running this).
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The problem with Origin
The problem with Origin isn't the security flaw. That was bad and dumb and whatnot, but that isn't what makes Origin suck. It's Origin that makes Origin suck.
As a delivery mechanism and game mgmt tool it's idiotic. Consider by comparison Steam. While Steam is not perfect, it's done for distribution of games what iTunes did for distribution of music. It's brilliant, and game changing.
Origin, by comparison, is a poorly executed "me-too" afterthought. I didn't buy Mass Effect 3 simply to avoid Origin. I would have. I bought ME2 on Steam. I played ME3, EA just didn't get my money because of Origin. I know many similar (albeit anecdotal) stories.
Moore implies that the number of subscribers to their mandatory game management platform indicates success. Is it though? Should the passport office point to the number of people with passports as an indication of people's desire to have a passport? Or how awesome it is to wait in lines to submit a form? Or is it an indication that people will deal with bullshit to travel?
His points regarding Origin can be summed up as "fuck you we're making money". This is typically a death knell for companies as it means they're leveraging their current position. This strategy has a shelf life, customer good will must be continually "topped up" not "borrowed against". That some of his other points carry the same underlying message does not bode well for EA's shareholders.
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Re: You keep mistaking what sue-crazy lawyers do with copyright.
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Re: Anti-copying verbiage
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Re: Wow
Not sure how this applies to parties in a show cause order though. Anyway, looks like Judge Wright feels he has sufficient evidence anyways, just wanted to have given them a shot at explaining the evidence.
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Re: cool
DDoS'ing a site (which may or MAY NOT have had knock on effects for others) for a period of time is very different from undercutting the fundamental technologies of the internet.
Mike has been pretty consistent in his take on DDoS.
Ipso facto, you suck.
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Off Topic, But
So, to Masnick et. al.: Thank you.
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Re: Um...
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Zee homonyms will get you
"Liable", no?
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Re: Hmm, and yet you're indifferent to Google and Microsoft
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Re:
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It's like he's trying to communicate with us...
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Re: Arrrrgh, Matey.
love it!
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The big fail
While us "freetards" (I include myself) hate DRM and realise its stupidity, the lying to customers after fucking the whole thing up really undercuts their position and portrays their idiocy.
If I were a shareholder I'd be screaming for blood.
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Attacks against humanity
If that's an attack against humanity, then how do we describe the depravity that is Reindeer Games?
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
The historical inaccuracies are not small: downplaying the role of the Canadians, portraying the Kiwis and Brits as unhelpful when they stuck their necks out too, portraying the whole thing as more tense/skin of the teeth than it was (care chase at airport), portraying the administration as against the operation causing Ben Affleck to go all mavericky, when none of that happened. Certainly this lends the film a propagandistic whiff, in terms of playing up the contributions of the CIA and Hollywood.
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Re: Re: 'my Iranian friends'
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