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Comment Re:The question is (Score 2, Informative) 122

being a porn site isn't the silver bullet that means you will make money. Also, there was a slashdot article saying that more porn sites were infected than expected. I'm not exactly sure how these two articles mesh up, but specifically that article had said that people in the porn industry tend to trade content to lower operating costs. So all it takes is one link in the chain putting malware in that content to infect multiple sites.

Comment Re:I misread that as Portal Lemmings in 36 hours (Score 1) 154

Actually that could be a pretty good idea. You could have a few types of portal spawning lemmings. One would invariably have to shoot it somehow, but one could create one in the path, and it could lead to other types of puzzle dynamics.... And would hopefully replace the painfully annoying stair building ones that always make me lose lemmings.

Comment Re:What if he is lying.. (Score 1) 392

That's all good and well. But I don't think that head of security would just say "Aww, how cute, he's testing. Let's leave him to his work." Even if his punishment is akin to a slap on the wrist, it's going to be a hard one with the warning that if he continues, he will be treated as if his intentions are malicious. In other words, the experiment is over, one way or another.

Comment Re:That is always something that has annoyed me (Score 1) 392

"Oh hey, I shot you and now you're dead. Well it really was your fault, after all, you weren't wearing a bullet proof vest, and the target was nearby and stationary, being seated on my couch. Don't get mad at ME. If you didn't want to be shot, YOU should have secured yourself better!"

I agree with you. A lot of people have the unfortunate problem of an over-inflated sense of entitlement these days, but that "If it can be done, I should be able to do it" attitude takes it to a whole new level.

Comment Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex (Score 3, Insightful) 266

Personally, I would think a fair number of adult sites would WANT to move to .xxx.
I mean, obviously it will be banned at work, schools, libraries, so there will still be sites on .com for the people that are trying to grab that demographic, but if the majority of porn users are actually adults in their own homes LOOKING for porn, the .xxx domain would make it very easy to know where the porn is. And as a result the porn sites will move there to get more exposure to their best customers: people who want, can pay for, are legally allowed to consume, and are currently in a place where they can browse porn.

That said, I am still against the gov't trying to regulate what is and isn't porn and requiring sites to move.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 2, Insightful) 72

So the punishment from misleading consumers is a ban on misleading consumers. Does that mean if they mislead consumers again they get another ban? Or would they actually get a real punishment.

To employ Godwin's law: Hitler, we have all gotten together and we agree... No more Holocausts for 10 years, okay? Thanks Adolf.

Comment Re:nope (Score 1) 387

But by how much? If you offer two completely identical products to someone at the same price, but one is illegal and one is legal, obviously they will choose the legal one. Now if it was only mildly more expensive but still the same product, yes, some people will go with the cheaper illegal copy, but I'd like to believe the people's consciences cost more than a couple bucks on average.

Not to mention the kicker: The movie studios have the data first. They have a jump on the competition. If they remove the ads you can't skip and the often pointless DRM, they can push a better quality product earlier and hopefully more efficiently. I would think someone would pay more to get more as well as knowing they aren't supporting illegal activites.
Just a thought.

Comment Re:why would anyone BUY an illegal copy? (Score 1) 387

This is another one of those stealing v. infringing arguments. Stealing the car is not only providing someone with a free car, but preventing someone else of its use/sale.

And besides, that isn't the point being made here. The point is that although in a perfect world, no one would pirate content, if that option were removed from the pool, the amount of people buying wouldn't be going up by the amount of people that were pirating, and likely it would barely go up at all. The point is that if a similar business model to this was employed by the MPAA, they would capture a much larger portion of the market. And yes, in some sense it seems unfair to the legitimate business they once had, I'm sure, but they are going to have to change themselves to adapt to this new change. I'm sure actors and more specifically owners of theatres complained a large amount when motion pictures first came into play because people would stop patronizing the arts if they could just watch the actors on screen instead of having to pay for the real performance each time, but that didn't stop movies from becoming a driving force in our culture.

Comment Re:why would anyone BUY an illegal copy? (Score 1) 387

The chair was created a long time ago. I'm certain by now it's PD.

It would be much closer to compare it to building the latest and greatest "as seen on tv" stuff for your use. There is a patent in place so you certainly can't produce it to sell it, but making it for your own use fits the gray area much better.

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