The Last.FM responses were on the forums to same day as the accusation.

*facepalm*

To clarify: TPB aren't the ones sharing. They are enabling private, non-commercial sharing through the provision of a search engine. He was not claiming that the TPB were private, non-commercial or sharing.

I never assumed anything. I was making the point that the media industry assumes things.

To clarify my previous point:

I buy a game from a store. Store has paid for that copy, I have paid for that copy. Media company happy.

It get stolen from me. Store isn't bothered, media company isn't bothered, I'm unhappy.

Now, I receive a copy of a music CD from a mate because he thinks I'd enjoy them and I haven't heard them yet. My friend owns a copy, I own a copy. Potentially, the band now has an extra fan but most likely I'd never have purchased the album. Simply because I didn't know about it. Yet the media industry will be butthurt that they lost a sale (That they shouldn't have accounted for because I wasn't a fan beforehand).

That is why I used the word MAY a lot. The person MAY not have purchased it. The media company MAY not have ever had the money they claim to have lost.

The same goes for games to an extent. There are people who are HUGE fans of FPS games who likely own most of what is on the Steam marketplace, Halo, Bioshock, you name it. Then a friend suggests they try Fallout 3 or Halo Wars, they're not quite FPS games but they have some bits he might like. He MAY go and buy one out of money he'd set aside for another FPS because it got delayed. He MAY not have that money to set aside. He MAY not want to risk buying something like Halo Wars that is definitely not an FPS. If he's in the seeming minority who don't know about torrents he MAY just skip the games entirely. Otherwise he MAY pirate it.

The media company MAY not have received any money from him if piracy was impossible, yet they'll still scream lost sale. And yet, this pirate MAY have found a sub genre he actually enjoys and MAY now spend money in this genre as well. He MAY have found a series in a genre otherwise too slow for him that he enjoys and MAY seek out others in the genre with a similar pacing. Who knows?

I've seen this very thing with my brother. He adores FPS games, but otherwise would never have played Fallout 3 because it appeared to be an RPG. He now adores it and has not only bought Fallout 3, he's also bought Dark Messiah of Might & Magic since then because it too looked like an RPG more than an FPS game (it is, but he still enjoys kicking people into spikes).

I never assumed anything. I was making the point that the media industry assumes things.

To clarify my previous point:

I buy a game from a store. Store has paid for that copy, I have paid for that copy. Media company happy.

It get stolen from me. Store isn't bothered, media company isn't bothered, I'm unhappy.

Now, I receive a copy of a music CD from a mate because he thinks I'd enjoy them and I haven't heard them yet. My friend owns a copy, I own a copy. Potentially, the band now has an extra fan but most likely I'd never have purchased the album. Simply because I didn't know about it. Yet the media industry will be butthurt that they lost a sale (That they shouldn't have accounted for because I wasn't a fan beforehand).

That is why I used the word MAY a lot. The person MAY not have purchased it. The media company MAY not have ever had the money they claim to have lost.

The same goes for games to an extent. There are people who are HUGE fans of FPS games who likely own most of what is on the Steam marketplace, Halo, Bioshock, you name it. Then a friend suggests they try Fallout 3 or Halo Wars, they're not quite FPS games but they have some bits he might like. He MAY go and buy one out of money he'd set aside for another FPS because it got delayed. He MAY not have that money to set aside. He MAY not want to risk buying something like Halo Wars that is definitely not an FPS. If he's in the seeming minority who don't know about torrents he MAY just skip the games entirely. Otherwise he MAY pirate it.

The media company MAY not have received any money from him if piracy was impossible, yet they'll still scream lost sale. And yet, this pirate MAY have found a sub genre he

It the case of physical theft, the production company doesn't lose money. The victim loses possessions.

In the case of copyright infringement the person it was copied from does not lose possessions and there is no guarantee that the person who copied the product would have paid for the product under other circumstances.

Media companies believe that they are the victims of theft whenever a product of theirs is copied. They see it as someone taking money from their pockets, even though the money may never have ended up there in the first place.

Gaming... Serious Bizness. Top end raiders may well use addons. Thing is, I'm yet to find a raid addon with a donation request. Most of the ones listed are PvE questing helpers, the data for which is usually obtained by those very same top end raiders during the testing phase.

I'm afraid your experience of raiding is more along the lines of the top end raider, not the average joe.

I'm main tank for a raid group, I don't use any addons, most of the group has no threat meter, no speciallist raid ui and/or no boss mod addon.

We're currently finishing off 10 man content in Wrath and the only reason we haven't done 25 man is we can't get the numbers together (Due to the work schedules of the various members).

Most users don't use addons that ask for donations. At least, of the people who have talked about it in my guild (a lot of them), only 1 of them uses one that relies on donations (Auctioneer)

As a current raiding druid tank. I currently use:

• The in-game calendar to organise raids
• The in-game threat system to make sure the off tank and I are tanking and not the dps/healers
• The in-game voice system to give tactical advice and instructions during the encounters
• WoWWiki to look learn the basic tactics for an encounter and adapt it to suit the raid selection

Why anyone ever cares about lag estimation is beyond me, i've never needed a meter to tell me how much earlier I have to pull the trigger in my favourite FPS to hit my target at the right moment.
Should you be remotely interested, we are currently attempting Eye of Eternity and the first of the Twilight Zone achievements and are a 10 man group who play for FUN.

I'd like to think that the vast majority of internet accessible apache installations have been set up by someone with a least some idea about network security and administration. As opposed to the average Windows user.

In the UK a city is a town that has been granted city status (usually due to royal connection, i.e. There is a cathedral in it), everything else of moderate population size is a town, there are quite a few towns with larger population size than some of the cities here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#United_Kingdom

The "under 21/25" ID thing goes deeper than that. In many companies that have this form of ID checking, failing to check anyone who is under 25 (Note: Under 25, not looks under 25) is almost as bad as selling to someone under the legal limit as far as your employment goes (fined, suspended possibly even fired).

It's more a case of you can't fire the employee for his opinion, but you could fire them because they were not doing their job (selling your products).

I've been fired from two jobs, both during the probation period. One basically for not putting the job before my college work (It was McD's) and the other because I was 'too quiet for the job' (This after 12 hours working at the company stacking shelves) but they can fire you without reason if they wish during this period. (I now work in IT as I intended to while at college)