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How PC Game Modders Are Evolving 98

Posted by Soulskill
from the longer-beaks-for-breaking-shells dept.
Lanxon writes "Wired has a lengthy investigation into the state of PC game mods, and the amateurs keeping the scene exciting in the wake of draconian DRM placed on many PC titles by major studios. It highlights a number of creative modders, such as Scott Reismanis, founder and editor of Mod DB, and his community-driven alternative to Valve's Steam — Desura — which is 'a distribution system, and, like Steam, will sell games and champion indie titles. But the way it handles mods makes it even more exciting.'"
It's funny. Laugh.

Copyright Troubles For Sony 276

Posted by kdawson
from the billion-here-billion-there dept.
ljaszcza writes "Daily Tech brings us a story about Sony's run-in with the Mexican police. (Billboard picked up the story as well.) It seems that they raided Sony's offices and seized 6,397 music CDs after a protest from the artist, Alejandro Fernandez. Fernandez had signed a seven-album deal with Sony Music; he completed that commitment and then left for Universal. During the time with Sony, he recorded other songs that did not make it into the agreed-upon seven albums. Sony Music took it upon themselves to collect that material and release it as an eighth album. Fernandez claims that he fulfilled his contract with Sony, and residual material belongs to him. Hmm. Precedent from the Jammie Thomas infringement and distribution case gives us $80K per song. Sony vs. Joel Tenenbaum gives $22.5K per song. So 6,397 CDs at an average of 8 songs/CD is 51,176 infringing songs, with (IMHO) intent to distribute. The damages to Fernandez should be $1,151,460,000 using the Tenenbaum precedent or $4,094,080,000 using the Thomas precedent. Seems very straightforward to me."

Comment: Re:Windows Vista: "Good Enough" is the right answe (Score 1) 350

by consumer_whore (#29249801) Attached to: Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology?

Suppose that Microsoft created a "good enough" operating system called "Windows Minimum" (WM).

They do that to an extent. Windows XP had 'Starter' edition, and Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, in addition to Embeded, Home and Professional versions. I wish they made the WFfLP available through retail. A stripped down version of XP, made to run on old computers, but still compatible with new (when it was made) software. None of the extras most people didn't need, and ran rather snappy compared to the regular XPs.

If you have nothing to do, don't do it here.

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