the question there is, why would any 'sentient' alien with the technology to use nomad planets as route 66 gas-stations want to be here ? Unless they're as viral in takeover of virgin lands as the homo is i don't see what they could possibly want here and why they would even bother? Altruism ? I'd think the star trek prime directive would make way more sense from an advanced civili-type-of-zation point of view. That or the Klaatu way, kill all humans -> save the planet. The hey we'll give you stargates and warpdrives thing would be in fact really stupid if you see how we handle what primitive technology we have

lol yea, oop but + for very funny

to ban all writable and previously bought dvds from the market so the mighty cloudnet, which starts to look like skynets up and coming little cousin gets a hold and track of all that goes about. Or to ultimately criminalize the media since, face it, pedophiles use dvd's to burn their child porn on so it must be a illegal for anyone to use-kind-of-thing in the making ?

say my wireless router is open for anyone and i have a tor bridge running at any time ... on top of that every time i connect from my own pc i go through a vpn ... how would that translate then?
the car analogies do seem to work for everything but it is in fact completely not the same. First of all, even if you would agree to call it stealing the car you steal from an individual who's life gets seriously and directly affected to the point of possible ruin whereas uploading/downloading a cd does not directly have the impact on one single person/family possibly losing their cosy life over one single fact. I think that's what the metaphor means in fact so maybe everyone would want to de-bunch the panties here. Other than that i'm not getting into it. Anyone seeing soapy-pipey or act-e as reasonably and in any way defendable probably hasn't read anything about the options it opens up. People who can't afford will still want it. Wherever there's a niche, business is created. It's the universal law of vacuum needs to be filled, a bit like with the quantum foam theory. The thing is here they are attacking the peoples who share this sh-t for free, not even making any money off of it because they are easy to extort because they are just Joe average, downloadmom and uploadson who worked their assess for what little they have and are scared to lose it so they easily budge under legal threat, viable or not. I have to see i think they are achieving quite the opposite of the desired effect with their reign of terror. The resilience has become more or less vibrant. It used to be some underground thing until they started advertising, now everyone knows about it, and knows how to do it. so in fact, i would agree that it is all more or less : BS :p

i have never had that kind of experience really, only when playing mmo's, anything else is usually more or less well-mannered and cOO, if all that's said there's true it sounds great, you can like divide the fruit ninja crowd from the dark souls crowd ... a bit separatist maybe but you don't have to keep up with the noobs if you stay on the hardcore platform ... if gaming is your number one hobby it might not be bad at all. I have actually noticed a decline in the weekly number of demos and trials offered on xbla and so far i'm not worried someone's gonna be playing dark souls , gears or battlefield on a tablet or smartphone really, since there's a huge crowd for that it seems to stand to reason that consoles (and definitely faster adapting pc's who hold the gamers with the hard cash to spend on hardware and games) are not quite dead yet

i apologize for adding to the post i just forgot to say that i thought the WTO was just this western overseer who says to all the others they have to play to these rules instead of theirs ?

yea, truly and really ... being unfair and not playing by the rules? is that how they call it ? maybe that's why you see chinese business men always smiling ... because of this kind of idiotic remarks. Why would they comply to anything the wto says? who will make them ? Who would be so naive to think that global business would be fair and played by the rules? I think they misplaced the article this must have been intended for april fools day

i"m sorry but when steam got hacked i got an email quite fast that my data might or might not be compromised and that i should check and renew passes anyway just in case, so some other companies would. Or maybe that's just why steam is the very proof that much dineiro can be made with pc gaming

that's actually a great idea, i was already worked up over the title because it would be a very humane idea to take a picture of what you're about to remove from existence forever ... some kind of morbid preservation urge when it comes to the past they've wasted? but this sounds great, how it will come down with people kicking on the feeling of power they get somehow from pulling that trigger from i dunno how far away against a defenseless animal for sport, i don't know. But it is a great idea if ever there should be a ban on weapons it should be hunting weapons. There's way less wildlife to spare than humans if i may be so bland as to explain it in a few words

The story of a guy who got tracked down for uploading an unreleased kaiser chiefs album was all over the news here, pretty and very real ... sued by the local version of the mafiaa and some publishing houses. The cops, who dont have time to solve all cases, did have a lot of time to shift throught ip-lists to track this guy down. Result : the judge (who i suppose thought as well this was a total over-reaction) fined the man 500 euros, but the damages went up to 65k, something the average joe here makes in about four years. So if he doesnt eat or pay other bills that cd will be paid back four years from now. The guy is ruined for life. Very real indeed, totally out of balance compared to what you get for other 'offenses', its better to be caught dealing heroin or kicking someone into the hospital than it is to upload a cd, that's the only message i could make from it (apart from the fact that copyright organizations are nothing but extortionists hiding behind laws)