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US Government: There's Child Porn On the Megaupload Servers Judge! 375

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the depends-on-what-is-means dept.
Fluffeh writes "In the ongoing Megaupload saga, Carpathia, the company that hosted Megaupload, is in a tough pickle. The EFF wants the data to remain on the servers so that users can get legitimate data back, the MPAA doesn't want the servers back, because it will lead to piracy. Megaupload wants to buy the servers to get all the data, but isn't allowed to as that would have the servers leaving the court's jurisdiction. The U.S .Government won't pay Carpathia for the time that the servers are sitting idle and has a new song in its repertoire by announcing yesterday that the servers 'may contain child pornography,' which would render them 'contraband' and limit Carpathia's options for dealing with them."

Comment It's not that I don't dislike charities... (Score 2, Interesting) 596

by dark_15 (#30552008) Attached to: In 2009, I've donated (or will donate) to charity ...

...But I consider them rather faceless. I instead helped out people I know personally that needed assistance.

Amongst other things I helped some friends haul hay on New Years Day, and then volunteer assisting at their day camp in the summer when their father lost his job and the family lost their mother to cancer. For my brother I helped cover rent for a month until he could get a new job and a decent paycheck.

Do I ever expect or even ask to be repaid? Absolutely not! What many people fail to realize is that the people around you need your help just as much as these charities do. We go so far to save the world, but never think about our brother/neighbor.
The Almighty Buck

Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game 422

Posted by Soulskill from the trust-rewarded dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Developer 2D Boy has written that they are seeing an 82% piracy rate for everyone's favorite DRM-free physics puzzler, World of Goo . Surprisingly, this rate is in-line with what they were expecting. The article also features a fascinating comparison with the piracy rate of another game that was shipped complete with DRM, at 92%. There seemed to be no major difference in the outcomes of the rate regardless of whether DRM was used or not ... well, no difference other than the cost to implement such nonsense."
Classic Games (Games)

Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market 253

Posted by kdawson from the once-in-a-lifetime dept.
VonGuard writes "I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). Others were fully released, like WarGames. But the crown jewel is what look to be a number of chips with various revisions of Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park for Atari 2600. This game was never released and has never been seen. It was a port of the version for Colecovision, and this lot of chips also included the Coleco version. So now I have to find someone who can dump EPROMs gently onto a PC so we can play this never-before seen game, which is almost certainly awful."

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