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Comment Re:Industry? (Score 1) 216

Ummmm. I get that for NZL$60 here (well 15gb), with free unmetered off-peak data (1am-7am; which is a pirates wet dream here) on ADSL 2. I also live like 3 houses from the exchange so I get about 11Mbps down. It would cost only NZL$50 if I didn't pay for the 1Mb upstream.

Section 92A would probably have hit my ISP hard though. They are not exactly great service (in fact they usually win worst service award), but they live on the fact that they give unlimited bandwidth to the pirates.

Also trying to compare apples with apples NZL$50 is only US$28.50. So it's not as bad as you make it sound.
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New Champions Online Details 43

Eurogamer sat down with Bill Roper of Cryptic Studios to discuss Champions Online, their superhero MMO due out in a few months. Roper mentioned that the PC version of the game will be coming out well ahead of any console versions, and he provided some insight into the game's Nemesis system. "When you get around the mid-game, you have the ability to create your Nemesis... Then you start going on these separate Nemesis missions — you'll start getting ambushed by the minions of your Nemesis, and eventually one of these minions will kind of break down, and say 'oh no please don't, I'll tell you I'll you,' and you get a clue off him. You go through a whole series of these very Nemesis-specific quests which revolve around the things you put in about your Nemesis, but it's not always the same path that you take, there's multiple story directions that you could be going through." Examiner also spoke briefly with Randy Mosiondz, lead designer for the game, about the questing and the game environment. IGN got a look at Lemuria itself, and Cryptic posted some of the concept art.

Comment Re:Bad Summary (Score 1) 933

Let's change the scenario slightly.

Let's make them cartoons depicting gruesome murders -- but note that as with the kiddie porn, no actual person is harmed. Or at the other end of the scale -- cartoons depicting someone smoking pot, even tho no actual marijuana was grown, harvested, or smoked.

HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT??

Under a worst-case interpretation, a cartoon depiction or written description of a crime becomes legally the same as doing the crime itself, and subject to the same penalty as the real thing.

Under worst-case enforcement, that would pretty much empty most libraries, just for starters.

I don't have time to wade through and wrap my brain around all the legalese in the decision, but I do know we definitely do NOT want to go down the road of enforcing real penalties against fantasy depictions of crimes, regardless of what that crime may be.

I would want to go and hide my copies of Grand Theft Auto.

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