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  • On the post: Connecticut Finally Drops Charges Against Julie Amero

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2008 @ 09:59am

    This is just pathetic that this happened to her. It shows how out of touch these people are and she should be suing them until all of them are broke, jobless and in jail. It's just pathetic and a news organization like 20/20 or 60 minutes should pick this up and expose this crime by Connecticut.

  • On the post: Do The New SEC Rules On Linking Violate Section 230 Safe Harbors?

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2008 @ 06:38am

    Re: I'm still not sure about Safe Harbors, but I see its benefits.

    Twinrova couldn't be more wrong.

    Safe Harbors are very important and more are needed. Whenever you put limits on anything, you destroy the potential for progress.

    If we didn't have things like patents and copyright, we'd be so much farther along in our advancement it would make today look very primitive.

    We need more freedom, not less. Safe Harbors are needed to stop those who want to violate freedom.

    Without protection on things like linking in websites, you'd basically destroy off the entire search engine market. You'd destroy off the entire internet. It's useful as a communication tool would be gone.

    Once again, it's about those with power and money want to control everything.

    There needs to be a revolution against the government and corporate control.

  • On the post: Students Dropping Out Of School To Pay RIAA Settlement Fees?

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2008 @ 01:52pm

    Parents should sue

    Parents should sue the RIAA for ruining their childrens lives. After all, they blame video games for doing that, why not the RIAA. At least this has a worse effect.

  • On the post: EA Sued Repeatedly Over DRM

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2008 @ 11:23am

    DRM stopped me from buying

    DRM stopped me from buying Mass Effect and Red Alert 3.
    I just won't buy any games unless I do it through a service like Steam or StarDock or know that the boxed copy doesn't have DRM.
    I think it's why Steam has been so successful, it stops piracy, you often get your games for cheaper, it's user friendly, and you never have to leave your house to get your games.
    Screw retail stores, screw DRM, I'm done buying crap that infects my computer.

  • On the post: Missing Teen Leads To Misplaced Video Game Bashing

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2008 @ 02:26pm

    Mass Media = FUD

    This is just typical mass media. They used to blame rock and roll for the same things. It's just bad parenting and the mass media doing what they always do, spreading FUD. They never check their facts, and the comments on the page are just as pathetically a joke. People should stop talking about crap they know nothing about.

    Video games cannot be an addiction, it's not possible. There are too many things that get classified as addictions that simply are not and can never be. It undermines real addictions and mocks them.

    The media should be ashamed at themselves and report on real news, like how the government is always screwing over the people and pandering to large corporations.

  • On the post: EA Execs Also Worried About Second-Hand Sales… But With A Better Approach

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2008 @ 05:20am

    Second hand sales will end

    It's only a matter of time before console titles have DRM that locks them to a system, thus killing off the second hand sales market, and possibly also the rental market.

    Digital distribution could do this right now, as it gets rid of the middle man in most cases.

    EA should be more worried about lost sales due to their DRM. PC market isn't typically a big resale market, yet, they are putting DRM that has customers like me avoiding purchasing games they would like to play, like Mass Effect, Spore, and their upcoming C&C Red Alert 3.

    In fact, DRM in general makes me nervous about purchasing any games other than MMO's which have no need for DRM. I fear that Fallout 3 will have some form of DRM, thus, infecting my computer with a corporate virus (yes, installing unauthorized files that affect the user experience is a virus, which is what EA and other DRM does).

    So until there is a crackdown against things like DRM by the courts, at least those that infect users, I am avoiding buying games with DRM.

    DRM directly affects the second hand sale market, with their phone home schemes, which will come to consoles too.

  • On the post: Even Senators Who Want Stronger Copyright Laws Are Worried About ACTA

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2008 @ 06:06am

    Time for an uprising

    Citizens should be getting pissed about this type of thing. This should be covered on the news, should be a hot topic in the political debate, and should have citizens, who will be the ultimate losers if this happens, really pissed off.

    This is the type of thing that if it happened during the time of the founding of America, people would have out their guns and be off to hang them some treasonous traitors. But these days, every one is so damn complacent that we are getting our rights taken away from us right under our noses and no one seems to give a damn.

    All these gun supporters talk about the right to bear arms, but they forget about their right to stand up against a corrupt government. Why isn't that happening? When did every one become such sheep?

  • On the post: Who Said DRM Is Necessary For Video Games? Not According To These Execs…

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2008 @ 08:22pm

    DRM is one of the problems

    DRM does kill business, it hurts your legit customer while doing nothing to stop the piracy. It's just stupidity to keep doing it.

    I also agree that free trials are key. World of Warcraft got so big because it gave away free trials, or sold the disc's very cheap in stores at the register, and let's people try the game. Two weeks of playing and they are either hooked, going to keep playing, and pay monthly, or they don't buy it. Nothing lost by the company, only a win-win scenario.

    So companies need to learn two things. Stop with the DRM and give away trials to your game.

    This is why the business model is shifting to giving away the game and then charging for extra's or subscriptions. It's just a better business model in some ways, but it gets around the entire piracy problem altogether, since it gets it's income from large player bases and things you can't give away.

  • On the post: Why Does The Recording Industry Decide Who Gets Threatening Letters From ISPs?

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2008 @ 06:39am

    Evidence?

    The problem with all of these RIAA, MPAA, BPI, IFPI, etc notices is that they need no evidence, and never provide any. They just make claims, and that's enough. ISP's are taking their notices as though they are fact, when in fact, they are simply statements that wouldn't hold up in any court.

  • On the post: Once Again (With Feeling): RIAA Told To Pay Tanya Andersen's Legal Fees

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2008 @ 06:38am

    I hope the RIAA keeps fighting this in court, because it just means the amount they have to pay gets larger and larger. They screwed up, as they have been doing all along, and they need to be forced to pay for their screw ups. If every one fought them instead of paying a few thousand in extortion fee's, they would be forced out of business. The RIAA is going to fall apart because of their own stubborn stupidity, but their lawyers will get rich.

  • On the post: Don't Overreact To EMI Losing The Rolling Stones

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 04:07pm

    The Rolling Stones? Does any one under 50 even care about them? I sure as hell don't, and I can't imagine a lot of others do either. Get rid of old, washed up bands and sign new, young, innovative, forward thinking bands. Good riddance to old, alcoholic, druggies.

  • On the post: Microsoft Plays Practical Joke On People To Convince Them They Like Vista

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 12:22pm

    Vista > XP

    I've used both Vista and XP extensively and Vista is superior to XP in many ways. On a GOOD computer, Vista is great. XP is just so damn old and insecure. Vista is bloated though, and it's hard to justify it's high price at retail for what little extra you get over XP. So if you have a new multicore CPU with 2GB+ RAM and GeForce 7+ video card, go with Vista. If you don't, stick with XP until you can get a good computer. But on a good computer, nothing wrong with Vista, just a bunch of haters who have crap computers or don't know what they are doing.

  • On the post: Italy Wants To Put Google Execs In Jail Over Uploaded Video

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 11:00am

    European countries, like Italy and France, just seem to have it out to go against any American business, especially one that has become so successful so quickly and is loved by many like Google.

    Problem is, every time a government tries to go against Google in some way, people get really, really pissed off. They keep targeting Google for understanding the new business world, and yet, too stupid to just do what they do, which is doing things right.

  • On the post: Trent Reznor Gives People A Reason To Buy Latest CD Even Though It's Free Online

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 10:57am

    The music industry doesn't want to see artists do well without them, because it just goes to show how much they aren't needed and how it's all a matter of quality content and good business models.

    Giving away his music for free is just a promotional tool to sell concert tickets, albums, shirts, and whatever else he might sell. It doesn't hurt him one bit to give away the music, and it only brings in more fans, especially in a time when there is such an anti-establishment movement against the RIAA and MPAA.

  • On the post: TorrentSpy Appeals Lawsuit Over MPAA Getting Access To Its Emails

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 10:54am

    The MPAA and RIAA consider themselves above the law. They do not need to follow the law, and they can do whatever they want.

    We need someone high up to slap this MAFIAA around and put an end to their illegal practices. They are no different from the mob.

  • On the post: Is Selling Counterfeit Software Worse Than Bank And Identity Fraud?

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2008 @ 09:49am

    Always about the Agenda

    They are just spinning things to suit their needs and push their agenda.

    If you download something for yourself, unlikely you'll even get a slap on the wrist. If you are creating many copies, and selling them, for profit, then you can get some fines, and possibly jail time, if really unlucky.

    So just keep your downloading to personal use, don't sell it, and you're unlikely to even get looked at.

  • On the post: How About Five Year Renewable Copyrights With A Use-It-Or-Lose-It Clause?

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2008 @ 08:21am

    Good, but...

    Needs to be a bit longer than five years, more like a decade, ten years.

    But the idea of this never ending copyright is just ridiculous. It doesn't work, and it just causes more problems than it helps.

    One thing though, the creator of the content should be the one who has to do it. Often times it's someone else who claims copyright over something they don't own the copyright to. Should also be a way to sell the copyright rights to someone else, a transfer of ownership. Then copyrighted works will actually have value.

    At the same time, get rid of patent laws altogether, or make a similar law about limiting the time on a patent to a decade and you must produce a product, or the patent is not valid. Product on the market, although that still doesn't fix the patent system, which just needs to be done away with.

  • On the post: Lawyer Sues Google For Putting His Ads On Parked Domains

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2008 @ 05:22am

    Sue in France

    He should sue them in France, he'd probably win there easily. France seems to be the forerunner in the loss of common sense.

  • On the post: Jim Prentice Wishes People Wouldn't Be So Specific In Their Questions Over Canadian Copyright Law

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2008 @ 09:20am

    Scumbag

    Prentice and the Conservative party of the biggest bunch of scumbags in Canada. They do nothing good for the people. How they even managed to get there. Dumb voters.

    And don't bother sending Prentice a letter or email, it falls on deaf ears. I've sent a few, sending in various problems from copyright to telecom's, and never got a response. If you really want to get someone to listen to you in Canada, send your emails to an NDP representative, they are about the only one's who actually care about the people these days.

    I hope Prentice gets shot in the head, then run over by a bus, then shot in the head a few more times, then run over a few more buses, just to make sure he's really dead. Might want to burn what's left for good measure. Scumbag.

  • On the post: It's Good To Be A Monopoly: Rogers Prices iPhone Service At 2 Arms And 2 Legs

    ScytheNoire ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2008 @ 06:05pm

    Canada allows corruption

    Canada is notorious for allowing monopolies and corruption, especially when it comes to cable and telephone companies. It's horrible here in Canada, mostly because the government is paid off by these big corp's to sit back and allow the people to get screwed over repeatedly. Rogers and Bell are the worst, but they are all bad up here. It's horrible. Need to start executing executives until they make change.

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