Hey John, I'm going to parrot what a few others have said; you might want to re-think the site name a little to avoid trademark dispute and angering the Dice.com gods. Maybe something like afterslash.org (altslash, as mentioned earlier, is too similar I think to alterslash, an existing blogroll/summary site).

I'd help in any way I can. I'll contact you later.

Or ... whatever.

Marry me.

That's some real deep throat shit right there, man. My eyes are like friggin' open now.
And I don't like what I see!

(i.e. your posts)

If this isn't APK, then why are you double posting, anon?
I know of only one net kook who double-posts with slight changes in the follow up when he thinks of a new burn...

If you are downloading a distro, and at the same time you place a VoIP phone call, what do you do if the audio is all broken up? Do you pause the torrent client to get better phone service? I do*. Now, put the torrent client in your neighbor's house, where you don't have have the ability to pause your neighbor's download when you want to use the phone. Is it fair?

To me this is a problem with bad network management. Lets say you have a 10 Mbit/s pipe from a neighbourhood to the internet. And you sell 5 Mbit/s connections in that neighbourhood. All is fine when 2 people are saturating their connection. All of a sudden a third person starts up a bittorrent client that makes many, many TCP connections. According to Bell, that third person is actually going to be able to hog bandwidth, since Bell will split the pipe up such that each _TCP connection_ gets it's share. So the two "normal" people will suffer an unfair degradation of service. I'd be happier with a situation where in times of saturation, subscribers as a whole were throttled to fairness. If three people are saturating the pipe, they should each get 1/3 of the pipe, max.

Oh no, we understand that.

It's quite simple. If the game is any good, then there won't be any used copies to by simply because no one wants to sell it.

The publishers' main concern is that first initial rush to buy the game after its released; that translates into money for the developer. Long tail sales are irrelevant and the royalties are crap unless you wrote Starcraft. So if you can make your game last for four weeks before someone gets tired of it, you've succeeded, you will get ample cash money to fund development of the next one.

If your target market is reselling the product at a rate which competes with the all important initial sales in a significant way, THEN YOU SUCK AT MAKING GAMES GET A DIFFERENT JOB. I don't know, work for Hollywood, put those texture and explosion making skills to good use. Lord knows Hollywood doesn't pay anyone the big bucks for a movie because of solid writing.