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Comment Re:Stop being basement nerds (Score 1) 297

The sad thing is, what the fuck are you going to watch with your fancy HTML5-compliant capitalist copyright Nazi video "sharing" site we call YouTube? The only actual "user-generated" content on that garbage site consists of one-minute "vlogs" from idiots who think they're cool because they say "fuck" "gay" and "faggot" after every word.

Comment Re:DMCA Reform (Score 1) 297

Start sending fake DMCA notices? If no one thinks its a problem except a bunch of basement-dwelling nerds, the problem won't go away until someone shows the braindead masses who browse youTube that there is a problem.

Comment Bullshit lawsuit that further clogs the legal sys. (Score 1) 453

You buy an Xbox 360. You plug it in. You go through the setup screens, then crate an Xbox Live account, which binds you to Microsoft's EULA, which specifically states that you are not allowed to mod the console. You mod the console anyway. You get banned for violating the EULA.

Simple, logical, legal. Lawsuits like this simply clog the American legal system.

Submission + - Microsoft COFEE Leaked (gizmodo.com)

Doug52392 writes: The Microsoft Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has been leaked onto the Internet today, Gizmodo reports.

COFEE, a tool created by Microsoft, was designed to be used by police and law enforcement officials to quickly and easily pull data off of Windows-based computers while bypassing all security features on the PCs. The tool was released to INTERPOL several months ago as a demo of Microsoft's work.

Comment Poor sales and it only contributed to piracy. (Score 1) 124

From what I understand, the digital distribution of the .PDFs did not sell very well, and the sales figures for digital distribution were very low when WoTC pulled the service (remember, they are a corporation, not a nerd-utopia). Combined with the fact that a majority of the PDFs available on torrent sites and file-sharing sites were the digitally disturbed .PDFs, it makes no sense, from a business perspective, to continue distributing products in a way that ended up costing a company more in lost sales figures than actual sales.

And yes, I know, you can't stop piracy. But they did cut off the main source of piracy.

Then again, I could never read e-books or role-playing game manuals on a computer screen, so whenever I'd pirate things like role-playing game manuals, I'd usually end up buying them if I liked them anyway (that included the 4th edition, which I purchased after reading the .PDFs, and I am satisfied with my purchase)...

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