UMG v. MP3.com says it is illegal for them to provide a service of offering the "space shifted" files to consumers; it doesn't say it's necessarily illegal for the consumer to download copies of the songs they'd purchased.

Not all games support LAN multiplayer, or they support LAN multiplayer for a limited set of features. I assume the likes of Dracula - Undead Awakening for the Wii, Dragon Sakura for Nintendo DS, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers for PlayStation 2, and Need for Speed: Undercover for Nintendo DS will never see online play again.

The subsidization of niches seems to be failing of late. Rather than serving their niche, low-tier channels want more viewers so they can get a bigger cut of the pie. To do this, they tailor their programs for mass appeal. When once the History channel presented factual information about history, now it airs episodes of Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens. When once TLC actually stood for The Learning Channel, now it airs things I'm embarrassed to know the names of. When once Sci-Fi aired niche science-fiction series, now SyFy is mostly about Ghost Hunting series. Abandoning the niche pulls in more viewers. I'd gladly pay $10+/month for an actual Sci-Fi channel that aired original science fiction series that haven't been retooled for the lowest common denominator of viewer. I think internet series are going to fill the niches going forward, while television seems to be homogenizing.

The bigger problem is that all your users need to know to use the switch when cloning your repo.

Send your VHS tapes into a company and have them do it. They have much better equipment than you can afford, and it saves you the hassle of having to find a recorder and do it yourself. I recently sent VHS tapes + 8mm reels + slides in to a company to have them digitized. The results were incredible. I have a VCR and a capture card, as well as a slide projector and a slide scanner, but the quality of their high end equipment was unbelievable. I didn't realize an old slide could hold such high quality photographs, and the scans my little slide scanner made were not even approaching the quality of theirs.

Have a company digitize your tapes. If the content on them is meaningful to you, you won't regret it.

What fresh meat has preservatives in it?

Sounds like cargo cult software engineering.

Many of the people working in the financial institutions knew what was going on. They just didn't see anything wrong with doing it.

Are you sure the wire gauge he's using is capable of safely delivering 40 A? You can't just upgrade a breaker and get more electricity. Not safely at least.

I second the ISC license and use it whenever I'm not using the GPL. The ISC is also the shortest which means people might actually be able to read and understand it.

If you have an American Express card you get ShopRunner for free. I buy more from NewEgg and Drugstore.com than I do from Amazon because shipping from them is always free for two-day shipping. Also, if you don't have American Express you can sign up for the ShopRunner Trial, then go to cancel it and it gives you 3 months free, then if you make I think it's 3 or 6 purchases it gives you a year free.

You can buy them on the auction house from other players. The low level ones are quite cheap; I bought a few of them. But crafting in NWO is beyond useless. If I could recommend one thing to new players it would be don't waste time or money on crafting.

Regarding the mounts, I played the entire game with only the regular horse mount. Twice. I will admit the pvp is pay2win with regards to mounts, and I think this was a major mistake by the developers to allow users to use any mount in pvp. For a new player, you can't get a high speed mount for the pvp except by paying money. At level 60, for me at least, I got more than enough money to buy multiple mounts from grinding high level dungeons. But I never bought a high level mount on principle: they shouldn't be so expensive, and they shouldn't be allowed in pvp unless everyone gets one for free.

I liked NWO, but I stopped playing it after a month or so since it has so little end game content. I hit max level, max gear, and was in the top "raiding" guild on my server for a while (I think the guild is gone now). Regarding pvp, buying the best items gives you maybe a 5% advantage over a player that has only farmed his items; however, player skill is important in NWO, more than in other MMOs where you just sit back and faceroll your spells.

For pve, again, perhaps a 5% advantage over other players. But for pve player skill is even more important than pvp. Too often I would see people that bought all their gear but were terrible at the game. No one wants these people on their team. There was a large stigma around buying stuff in the game as you'd be seen as attempting to pay2win.

I see lots of people that haven't played the game much calling it pay2win. The most blatant pay2win game I've played was Scions of Fate. In it, if you paid money you could buy potions with 0 refresh that would refill your HP to full. These could only be obtained through the cash store and, as you can imagine, are basically mandatory for pvp. And yes, you can use them during pvp. For NWO, I don't see something as small as up to a 5% advantage (and that's after spending some serious cash on the game) when the game is much more heavily based on player skill than min-maxing anything as pay2win. For instance, let's say you're a healer and you do 5% more healing than the other healer. It really doesn't matter because what matters is that he gets the heals on the right person at the right time and in the right place. If you miss your healing circle or don't heal the right person, then it doesn't matter that your heals were 5% more effective.

Also, everything that can be obtained with cash can be obtained without cash by grinding. This is somewhat relevant because when considering the advantage, I'm assuming that the person with cash is spending a lot to buy really high level enchantments while the other isn't.

I think it's unfair to say Neverwinter is "one of the most P2W games ever". Yes, you can buy the best armor which might even give you a 1-5% edge over the next guy, but at high levels player skill is far more important to a team than individual items. And for pve it's not at all pay2win. When you hit level cap you can either a) grind through dungeons to get items or b) buy your items and grind through dungeons. In either case your individual skill is still important and you're going to be grinding dungeons anyways. Additionally, much of the game's content is designed to reward you with items for playing. If you just buy those items, you're ruining the fun of the game for yourself. In that sense it's anti-pay2win, because paying means you miss out on content.

BerliOS ran into financial troubles recently. Not sure if they'd be a good pick for long term hosting.