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Comment I cant wait! (Score 1) 366

by zcold (#32981328) Attached to: Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales
I am so glad Google has decided that this failed experiment was indeed an ultimate and humiliating failure. The best phones come from the service providers. After they have stripped the phone of features they do not want on their network. Change the hardware to make it slightly cheaper and all around hack the ROM until it is unusable is far greater than receiving a phone from the manufacturer unchanged and unscathed. Its high time we rise up and tell Google and other Doo Gooder companies that we love having our service providers anally rape us, our children, and future generations till the end of time. I welcome our new overlords, Rogers, Bell, AT&T, Verizon etc... *bent over*

Comment seriously? (Score 1) 263

by zcold (#32606764) Attached to: Supreme Court Says Gov't Employee Texts Not Private
I cant imagine anyone thinking they have a right to privacy on a company device. I have a mac book provided by my company. Anything I do on it I consider privacy, obviously I use another device to browse my pr0n. I freelance on the side. I dont use this laptop to do work outside of the company, and if I did, I dont leave a trace on the laptop. If they were to issue phones, I would have a separate phone for anything non business.
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Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market 396

Posted by Soulskill from the bad-news-bears dept.
sbrubblesman writes "The Tetris Company, LLC has notified Google to remove all Tetris clones from Android Market. I am one of the developers of FallingBlocks, a game with the same gameplay concepts as Tetris. I have received an email warning that my game was suspended from Android Market due to a violation of the Developer Content Policy. When I received the email, I already imagined that it had something to do with it being a Tetris clone, but besides having the same gameplay as Tetris, which I believe cannot be copyrighted, the game uses its own name, graphics and sounds. There's no reference to 'Tetris' in our game. I have emailed Google asking what is the reason for the application removal. Google promptly answered that The Tetris Company, LLC notified them under the DMCA (PDF) to remove various Tetris clones from Android Market. My app was removed together with 35 other Tetris clones. I checked online at various sources, and all of them say that there's no copyright on gameplay. There could be some sort of patent. But even if they had one, it would last 20 years, so it would have been over in 2005. It's a shame that The Tetris Company, LLC uses its power to stop developers from creating good and free games for Android users. Without resources for a legal fight, our application and many others will cease to exist, even knowing that they are legit. Users will be forced to buy the paid, official version, which is worse than many of the ones available for free on the market. Users from other countries, such as Brazil in my case, won't even be able to play the official Tetris, since Google Checkout doesn't exist in Brazil; you can't buy paid applications from Android Market in these countries."

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