Demanding that the government follow the provisions in the Bill of Rights is not a "false sense of entitlement".
There are plenty of people who didn't violate any laws but had to deal with over-aggressive law enforcement. To pretend otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
that's a hell of a rant. That covers a niche situation accounting for maybe 1% of pirated copies.
You are ignoring that the user in question admitted to pirating it. Also that these days installing a cracked game that was originally only available on pc through steam requires you to jump through a couple hoops to allow it to be ignored by steam. You don't get tricked into running this.
here's the thing. Would you put more trust in some random internet cracker with no reputation that matters on the line, or with a company that seems for all the evidence to do the right thing with millions of dollars at stake?
Not saying to trust corps at all, but if you are going to draw a trust line that far down the sand then you better get really good at cracking games yourself.
If you actually READ the post, the actions that got charges filed were for different dates than the one you quoted. There is more to this story we don't have public yet.
Wait... rational, respectful, non-inflamatory, non ad-hom discussion that stays on topic through several replies?!?!?! Are we still in the Techdirt comments section?!?!
ahem.
TheFatMan has a few valid points about the process, and i totally agree that the Examiners are in a seriously untenable position of having to work within a set of rules and guidelines that rarely directly relate to what anyone fairly well-versed in IP issues would call common sense. That said, I don't think Mike was talking about the Examiners here. As detailed in several previous articles and in the newly posted Amazon-white-background-photo debacle, you guys don't have to "go after patent trolls". All you need to do is not grant patents for obvious crap.
Now I totally understand that your ruleset and guidelines for such things are seemingly fluid and sometimes contradictory, and I know that most of the people in your position are good people trying to adhere to the policies they are given. Which is why almost all the criticism and snark about the USPTO is aimed at the leadership, not you guys in the trenches. I am far too lazy to lookk up supporting links right now, but a simple search for 'USPTO' on Techdirt will probably cover it.
You're both right... the data would be useful, but without the comparative data from a VPN connection, not of much value. Anyone tech savvy enough to know how to compare the traffic on a VPN would also know how to run their own traceroutes, so I would say it is ultimately not necessary to include it on every stream.
I would bet a paycheck she is either involved with scientology or being paid by them, the book is a barely disguised Cruise wank-fest, and this article is just drumming up business for the book.
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There are plenty of people who didn't violate any laws but had to deal with over-aggressive law enforcement. To pretend otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
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You are ignoring that the user in question admitted to pirating it. Also that these days installing a cracked game that was originally only available on pc through steam requires you to jump through a couple hoops to allow it to be ignored by steam. You don't get tricked into running this.
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It's just a wink to pirates that it's pirated. Doesn't phone home, doesn't delete saves, doesn't corrupt anything, doesn't interrupt play.
There are plenty of bad examples of DRM to martyr yourself on, this isn't one of them.
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Not saying to trust corps at all, but if you are going to draw a trust line that far down the sand then you better get really good at cracking games yourself.
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ahem.
TheFatMan has a few valid points about the process, and i totally agree that the Examiners are in a seriously untenable position of having to work within a set of rules and guidelines that rarely directly relate to what anyone fairly well-versed in IP issues would call common sense. That said, I don't think Mike was talking about the Examiners here. As detailed in several previous articles and in the newly posted Amazon-white-background-photo debacle, you guys don't have to "go after patent trolls". All you need to do is not grant patents for obvious crap.
Now I totally understand that your ruleset and guidelines for such things are seemingly fluid and sometimes contradictory, and I know that most of the people in your position are good people trying to adhere to the policies they are given. Which is why almost all the criticism and snark about the USPTO is aimed at the leadership, not you guys in the trenches. I am far too lazy to lookk up supporting links right now, but a simple search for 'USPTO' on Techdirt will probably cover it.
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I would bet a paycheck she is either involved with scientology or being paid by them, the book is a barely disguised Cruise wank-fest, and this article is just drumming up business for the book.
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