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DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty 795

bonch writes "Independent game Machinarium, released without DRM by developer Amanita Design, has only been paid for by 5-10% of its users according to developer Jakub Dvorsky. To drive legitimate sales, they are now offering a 'Pirate Amnesty' sale until August 12, bundling both the cross-platform game and its soundtrack for $5. Ron Carmel, designer of DRM-free puzzle game World of Goo, stated that his game also had about an 80-90% piracy rate, claiming that the percentage of those pirating first and purchasing later was 'very small.' He said, 'We're getting good sales through WiiWare, Steam, and our website. Not going bankrupt just yet!'"
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BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos 560

An anonymous reader tipped a post up on Americablog revealing that BP Photoshopped a fake photo of their crisis command center and posted it on their main site. The blogger commented, "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center." While this story was just being picked up by the Washington Post, an Americablog reader spotted another doctored BP photo on their website, this time of a "top kill" working group. How many others?

Comment One more special case. (Score 0) 773

You can also have names with spaces in them which is what catches my wife out a lot, she's got a double barreled surname only instead of a hyphen she has a space between the two. One last name made up of two separate words.

There is also the celtic tradition of using your last middle name as a first name, I know quite a few people who do this, one particularly common example in Ireland is for people to have an extra first name of Patrick although that one would never be used outside of passports and other official documentation.

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