Having played the last few Ubisoft games, it seems that they have already started to implement this new anti-piracy tool.

There, fixed that for you.

I'm pretty sure they released the code under GPL before anyone threatened them with legal action, no?

I am not in any way knowledgeable about the situation with the peer-reviewed journals and I'm genuinely interested, what makes it so important to have to publish there? If you just released your article/research/whatever on your website, why should it make any less of an exposure in the long term if the research is valid and the results reproducible?

First of all, anyone who has not yet seen the video of the presentation, I recommend you to do that.

I'm usually the first guy who worries about privacy when using Google's systems and I do not buy easily into new fads. However this time I think Google is on the right track.

I can easily think of tens and tens of use cases for the waves. You can aggregate news, RSS, e-mail, IM, twitter, blogs, forums and comments all into one place and not have to worry about having to open up five different clients and find tens of different sites every time you want to drop a comment. But this is not the main thing that will make Wave popular. Wave will become popular, because it is independent of Google. Every company, every ISP and even every small group of people who might not even want their waves to leave their LAN can set up their own wave server. The protocol is open. I do not know about you guys but this time I have pretty high expectations.

You can set up your own wave server, just as you can with e-mail.

Companies can set up their own wave servers and communications between members of the same server will never leave the network.

Yeah, they can - on their own server which will probably become the most popular one but you can use alternate servers to those of Google.

Not somewhat but pretty much equally to e-mail.

I assume you've tried signing up? You should be able to develop something however if you want to get a peek.

One problem with bittorrent is that it has a centralized tracker. You see what is happening to The Pirate Bay. If legal issues are of concern, I'd say that it's the bittorrent guys that should start moving onto a more decent network. And if that is to happen, we need to eliminate problems like content poisoning.

Judge: "What's an Internet?"

Haha, yeah, into the Linux kernel. Seriously, if I didn't get everything wrong, the software was a driver for the Linux kernel that would make Linux run better in VMs on Windows.

As another poster mentioned, it's quite possible, that MS wanted to release it under the GPL the whole time and thus used components from another GPL project. If their driver wasn't GPL, it could not be merged into the Linux kernel and MS would get nothing out of it.

Hahahahahaha. I can't believe you actually think that the law is meant to protect all the religions.

Ya rly? So if children weren't brainwashed from birth you think they would still choose religion? Or is it okay if other religious people make the choice for you?

No silly. You're not catholic.

You don't need proof to believe and that's what atheism is. Believing that god does not exist. Agnosticism has become a tainted term. A lot of people seem to understand that it is something standing half way in between believing in god and atheism. Like there's a fifty-fifty chance of god existing. Most people who consider themselves agnostics that I know are more like 99.9998% atheists and 0.0002% theists. Since too many people don't seem to understand the difference, perhaps it's just easier to round a bit and consider yourself an atheist.

Yeah, there's a possibility that god exists. It's about as probable as the existence of an orange green-spotted 225kg platypus who floats somewhere between Mars and Jupiter and eats small black holes for breakfast but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Not too damn likely however.

The thing is, they'll have to move their asses before it turns "Free, convenient and worried-about-getting sued". I'm pretty sure they've missed the train a while ago.