adnonRT - Slashdot User

Submission + - Putting Piracy in Perspective

Submitted by on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @10:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past year, Slashdot has pointed to many industry claims and governmental pressure (here, here, and here) arguing that Canada as a piracy haven. Canadian law prof Michael Geist has produced Putting Canadian "Piracy" in Perspective, a video that demonstrates how the claims are hugely exaggerated. For example, it shows how despite the MPAA's claim of movie piracy, Canada was the industry's fastest growing market last year. Similarly, while the recording industry says Canada is the world's top P2P country, the data shows that the Canadian music industry is experiencing record gains and that most of the decline from the major labels is due to retail pricing pressures.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 357

by adnonRT on Friday March 16, 2007 @11:00AM (#18375133) Attached to: Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year

Support for Linux has been asked for several hundred times by now. The company does not want to port it for whatever reason. (they have issues statements as to why a few times...all vague) However taking the stance that I won't buy their product just so they know I want it on linux isn't going to accomplish a damned thing for me. The bottom line is that Most games are made for the windows platform. It's the only reason there is a windows box in my house. My other two boxes, including my wife's are either Mac OSX or Linux distros. Be that as it may, some of the posters here are right, Linux takes work and anyone who has been doing it for a while knows this. Certainly more work to use than a windows machine. Despite the reasons behind that being the case, it is still the case. And yes, all of you nix nuts are the main reason why so many newbies don't even try. Because flames and calls of idiocy are all newbies hear. Why deal with that? P.S. Did you seriously reference MMO's with being anti-social? And then you went on to reference a +8 stat? O_O Dude.....when was the last time you even SAW an MMO? Ultima online? AS far as I know...MMO's involve people from all over.....and umm yeah...talking to them over vent and such to get stuff done and socialize. Hell, I have met three RL friends through wow who live in my city and quite a few others who live in places ranging from Canada to UK. I visit them as often as my money allows and engage in 'social' activities with them. Seriously, try to keep up with the times. I don't exactly see what is so social about playing 4 minute rounds online through Xbox live or sitting alone at your piano playing it. Diversions are diversions. I use the tools necessary to have my diversions. Linux is not one of them. Yes I could use Wine, sometimes I do when I don't feel like messing around with the win box at home, but most of the time, my gaming rig is my tool of choice for gaming. I will continue to ask them to port to linux, as I always do, but I am sure it will continue to be ignored until ONE of the distros becomes 'mainstream'.

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