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Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:03AM from the don't-anger-your-base dept.

mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Comment I will never buy another NetGear junk ever again! (Score 1) 300

by Xpendable on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:05AM (#29655349) Attached to: Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced

Say what you will, but I am done with NetGear. I have an N wireless router that routine locks up and has to be reset. I have had 2 different wireless NetGear adapters that have a major design flaw that causes them to overheat and crash. This would happen in less than 30 minutes. What a royal PITA that was. Tons of threads on the internet about these crappy adapters, and NetGear refuses to do anything about it. And yet they are STILL selling the same flawed design. I'm really surprised that somebody didn't start a class action lawsuit against them. Never again will I trust NetGear equipment. Got a Linksys wireless adapter and never had a problem.

Comment Jack Thompson should be disbarred. (Score 2, Interesting) 421

by Xpendable on Thursday October 01, 2009 @08:09AM (#29604017) Attached to: Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M

Jack Thompson should be disbarred. His lawsuits are nothing but frivelous and a waste of tax payer money. He must have blown all his money that he earned from his tv show and now needs to keep filing idiotic lawsuits in hte hopes to make money for his ridiculous lifestyle. This guy should be disbarred and then he should be exiled from our country.

Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing 230

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:01PM from the if-I-want-bing-I-will-type-bing dept.

Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.

Comment Wow... (Score 5, Insightful) 541

by Xpendable on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:13PM (#28858099) Attached to: Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone

Wow, that's pretty scary. I'd hate to have developed software for a platform, only to find it removed from the platform a few months later as an anti-competitive action because the company that owns the platfrom decides to release their own versions of the same thing. That could put me out of business! And I'm sure the developer agreement with Apple gives them full rights to do this. Yikes. Well, I'm one of the few around here that doesn't have an iphone anyway.

Comment You'll never get my money! (Score 3, Insightful) 294

by Xpendable on Saturday July 25, 2009 @09:36AM (#28818101) Attached to: Free Web Content a "Myth," Claims Barry Diller

Here's what I have to say to those who want to charge $5 to read their "online" newspaper. Good luck with that. I'll be over here where the news is still "free".

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