This is the company that literally makes the same development tools their team uses available to the public for the express purpose of creating mods. And they've been doing it for nearly 20 years.
Anything is possible, but getting salty about something that would be a complete 180 just isn't a very good bet.
"But if we told users the DRM was nothing but spyware that slowed their machines down, they'd just pirate it instead. Besides, we need that specific DRM or there would be piracy! ... What contradiction?"
You mean the kind of "social" media where you have to create an account and agree to conditions in order to post anything?
You might be able to craft an argument in some jurisdictions in VERY specific circumstances where a website is completely open to any person at any time with no signup. But just crafting that argument is still a long way from winning a court case.
Yeah if I build and own a mall I'd really like unlimited authority over who can come in and out of that mall. However, since I'm in the 9th circuit. I don't have that much authority. I have some limited authority but I do not have the broad authority that the owner of a corporate office building would have.
Uh, Costco and other membership clubs have terms of service for physical spaces, and violating those terms can absolutely get you kicked out. Virtual spaces having those same rights isn't some magic exception, it's a logical extension of an uncontroversial rule.
Even updating and continuing to monetize older titles is hurt by the lack of preservation options.
Famously, Baldur's Gate and a number of related titles in the same engine have been enhanced and revitalized by Beamdog and resold decades after their original release, but no such luck for Icewind Dale II. The source code is gone, and without it, no further updates can be made. Sure, the original binaries still work, but short of a complete rewrite, anything else is off the table.
This is like saying a small number of guilty people end up winning at trial, so we need to outlaw lawyers for the good of everybody.
If you ignore the other side of the equation where most people benefit from a particular law or policy, you end up hurting far more people than are helped.
Legacy media company that relies on the power of the monologue for its revenue stream is angry at websites and laws that facilitate dialogue. News at 11.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
I've said it a million times. Section 230 is a key piece of democratizing the news, so it's folly to expect any traditional news gatekeeper to present the whole story. If they even do understand it, they have a vested interest in misrepresenting it.
No doubt they have internal analysis about which monetization methods will lead to the greatest revenue, but sharing that publicly right now could gum up any regulatory investigations that might arise out of such a large acquisition. Getting too public about it, just in case things fall apart, could harm both companies down the road. They have to continue to operate as separate entities for the time being.
It's getting hard to keep track of all this. Section 230 causes sexual predators. Owning what you buy causes sexual predators. It's a hell of a boogyman to push all sorts of agendas.
Can we get a campaign to promote copyrights of over 10 years causing sexual deviancy? Maybe this super power can be used for good.
Re: Dumb and Dumberer (as )
Are you trying to get this post Taken down? You can't use that many titles in one post, it'll be Armageddon!
(untitled comment)
He can't possibly be using some sort of community-driven, publically-shared product! That would be socialist!
(untitled comment)
It's almost like he wants to appoint himself Product Manager of the Internet...
It must be his dream job, considering he's been chasing it forever.
Re:
This is the company that literally makes the same development tools their team uses available to the public for the express purpose of creating mods. And they've been doing it for nearly 20 years.
Anything is possible, but getting salty about something that would be a complete 180 just isn't a very good bet.
Re: Pay for some privacy
Daily reminder that a VPN is just an ISP that says they don't log data.
Unless you are physically controlling a cable directly between any two endpoints, your traffic is never guaranteed to be completely private.
Re: Hey!
"In mathematics, theorems are named after the second person to discover them, for the first is always Euler."
Mike is the Leonhard Euler of the digital age confirmed.
Re:
This one only lost money for one month! Great success! One of the best Trump ventures of all time!
Re: Works Both Ways
It's legal to fire an employee.
It's illegal to fire an employee as retaliation for reporting harassment.
Industry response:
"But if we told users the DRM was nothing but spyware that slowed their machines down, they'd just pirate it instead. Besides, we need that specific DRM or there would be piracy! ... What contradiction?"
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Other Foot
You mean the kind of "social" media where you have to create an account and agree to conditions in order to post anything?
You might be able to craft an argument in some jurisdictions in VERY specific circumstances where a website is completely open to any person at any time with no signup. But just crafting that argument is still a long way from winning a court case.
Re: Re: Re: The Other Foot (as AC)
Uh, Costco and other membership clubs have terms of service for physical spaces, and violating those terms can absolutely get you kicked out. Virtual spaces having those same rights isn't some magic exception, it's a logical extension of an uncontroversial rule.
(untitled comment)
Republicans: Cancel culture is bad.
Also Republicans: Non-Trumpians are unamerican.
Also Republicans: Cancel baseball for being unamerican.
Re:
Even updating and continuing to monetize older titles is hurt by the lack of preservation options.
Famously, Baldur's Gate and a number of related titles in the same engine have been enhanced and revitalized by Beamdog and resold decades after their original release, but no such luck for Icewind Dale II. The source code is gone, and without it, no further updates can be made. Sure, the original binaries still work, but short of a complete rewrite, anything else is off the table.
Re:
Boom.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190612/07282442379/google-stadia-is-about-to-show-everyone -why-broadband-usage-caps-are-bullshit.shtml#c46
Re:
He's saving that for the franchise, Mayor of Mar a Lago, Alabama.
(untitled comment)
This is like saying a small number of guilty people end up winning at trial, so we need to outlaw lawyers for the good of everybody.
If you ignore the other side of the equation where most people benefit from a particular law or policy, you end up hurting far more people than are helped.
Dog bites man
Legacy media company that relies on the power of the monologue for its revenue stream is angry at websites and laws that facilitate dialogue. News at 11.
(untitled comment)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
I've said it a million times. Section 230 is a key piece of democratizing the news, so it's folly to expect any traditional news gatekeeper to present the whole story. If they even do understand it, they have a vested interest in misrepresenting it.
(untitled comment)
The deal isn't done yet.
No doubt they have internal analysis about which monetization methods will lead to the greatest revenue, but sharing that publicly right now could gum up any regulatory investigations that might arise out of such a large acquisition. Getting too public about it, just in case things fall apart, could harm both companies down the road. They have to continue to operate as separate entities for the time being.
(untitled comment)
It's getting hard to keep track of all this. Section 230 causes sexual predators. Owning what you buy causes sexual predators. It's a hell of a boogyman to push all sorts of agendas.
Can we get a campaign to promote copyrights of over 10 years causing sexual deviancy? Maybe this super power can be used for good.
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