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Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:03AM from the don't-anger-your-base dept.

mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Comment Re:Check out Patapsco Designs (Score 1) 235

by alienswede on Thursday January 31, 2002 @06:35PM (#2934088) Attached to: Recommendations for Digital Security Systems?

With the Visilinx Product I mentioned above you can also watch live transactions as they happen. A separate window on the side of the video window will display exactly what is being printed on the actual receipt in the store.

All of this data is being sent back to an Oracle database in our data center and is later used when the client wants to do sales reporting or analysis.

We can currently connect up to 16 Cameras and 6 registers at each location. You can also control PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) cameras and monitor gas pumps etc.

Time lapse video is constantly being archived for however many cameras are in the location. You can then seek back to a specific date and time and play back video from that time for all cameras or a specific camera of your choice. Saturation, Contrast and brightness can all be controlled from the web interface to expose details that may not immediately be seen. When you are watching the archived video you can also at any time pull up the transactions that were occuring at that point in time and see the actual receipt contents.

Really cool stuff...

http://www.visilinx.com

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