Comment Re:i wonder... (Score 4, Insightful) 352
Pirates already have an entitlement complex. Why would they want to do stuff for the sites they are using?
Comment Re:Disney sells product that solves Disney's probl (Score 2, Insightful) 498
Unfortunately...that's not quite true. Steam, and especially Valve's games, have done quite well, despite the customer not owning the game.
Comment Re:Open source game? (Score 1) 137
..they could do the same thing with Halo for PC. I don't think that's necessarily the reason.
Comment Re:Don't by DRM protected media... (Score 1) 311
Please note that this also includes buying things on Steam.
Comment Re:The '90-ties are over (Score 1) 100
It's open source, it's gonna take a while to catch up
Comment Re:No Thank You (Score 1) 19
No no no, you got it wrong. It'd be "xXxSEPIROTH666xXx".
But seriously, I was under the impression that the multiplayer "story" was going to be unlocked as you gained levels, somehow. I don't think it'd be like WoW, where everyone is in the same map.
Comment Re:Well, hm... (Score 1) 383
Except when it's something you agree with, and in that case ballot stuffing is great! Or so I'm told whenever I bring up ballot stuffing.
Comment Re:Oh please (Score 2, Insightful) 1079
A cop interpreting the law is a tad more worrisome than some smoker getting busted.
Comment Re:It's Good Advice for Any OS Install (Score 1) 420
That brings back bad memories. Had to reinstall Kubuntu because something got seriously messed up. I test out my backups. They restored just fine. I wipe the disk, and put Kubuntu back on. Try to restore the backups and....no luck.
Comment Re:What about Google? (Score 1) 137
"Why cant people see this? Its posted again and again, and the pro-piracy kids just don't want to hear it."
I think you answered your own question.
Comment Re:Next Gen Arm based netbooks. (Score 4, Informative) 774
Comment Re:Woo! (Score 1) 128
I think it's partly because the target audience is probably not likely to pirate anyways. Perhaps because they don't want to piss off a large group of people with DRM? A much larger group than would normally care.
Who knows. Just a conspiracy theory.
Comment Re:lkml.org server is slashdotted. (Score 1) 316
it'll appear in some other Slashdot thread until CmdrTaco does a fsck.
So it's going to be in another thread for eternity?
Comment Re:I think the Wolf3D Redux guy made a big mistake (Score 0, Redundant) 232
Wow, that is quite unfortunate!