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Darren New wrote:
> All this talk of Vista, followed by me installing Steam on my new PC,
> got me wondering if the Steam activation had ever been cracked (since
> Vista activation is cracked via backdoors MS intentionally left in which
> aren't really needed for Steam to work well). So I google around, just
> out of curiousity, and come across
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rIw1HUfrU
>
> Now, how lame is this? Three minutes of video, with music, to convey six
> sentences of text? Damn, guys, get a geocities web site or something.
I'm stunned.
I keep hoping that the kids trying to pirate games would know their
technology. Fact is, they possess no more clue then anyone falling for 419s.
I really needed a good laugh, thanks Darren.
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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> I wonder how many valid accounts they phished with their video.
Reminds me a bit of this:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Go-Phish.aspx
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- Warp
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I wonder how many valid accounts they phished with their video.
You know, I never noticed that. (Of course, I had no intention of
following the instructions so...)
I *did* kind of wonder at the "you can only get five games per one you
own." I thought it was kind of dumb for Valve to have left open to
public email the game authorization mechanism.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:19:54 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Software pirate mentality is one of the worst things that really
> grinds
> my gears. People who pirate software and have this kind of attitude are
> the worst moral scum on earth.
Uh, no, I think you'll find that people who think it's appropriate to
bomb innocent civilians are the worst moral scum on earth.
Let's have some perspective, please.
Jim
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:35:22 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Soon we will live in a world where pirated music and movies are the
> *only* way to get them to work properly without having to spend enormous
> amounts of money on expensive hardware which might still not guarantee
> that you can get them to work properly.
>
> The naive theoretical idea behind DRM is that if you are a honest
> paying
> customer, you don't even notice it's there. Only if you try to copy it
> illegally you will stumble accross its obstacles. In practice it's often
> almost the opposite.
Yep, agreed there. We just picked up a copy of "The Mummy Returns" from
our local secondhand DVD store. It comes with a digital copy on disc 2,
which must be activated by June 8, 2009.
You have to be running Windows XP or Windows Vista in order to actually
view it. Requires WMP10 in order to watch it, and is DRM-encumbered.
Nice idea, but of course using Linux, totally useless to me.
Fortunately, I can use k9copy to rip a copy of the video on disc 1, don't
have to deal with DRM issues or platform lock-in, and I can move the file
to my laptop if I'm taking a trip or view it on my desktop if I like,
rather than being tied to the "only usable on 1 PC" built into the DRM
software.
Jim
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:54:33 +0100, scott wrote:
> Just look what
> happened with Napster when it was shut down, up popped bitTorrent.
IKWYM, but LimeWire popped up; BitTorrent is a transfer protocol, bit
different than Napster or Limewire....
Jim
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:07:47 -0500, Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
>> Well given that piracy is illegal, it seems a legitimate target for the
>> censors, but as with all these sort of schemes there will always be a
>> way around them and new ways of pirating software will pop up. Just
>> look what happened with Napster when it was shut down, up popped
>> bitTorrent. If suddenly they start censoring all sites that link to
>> torrents, then I'm 100% sure some new method will be invented that
>> makes it impossible to censor using the existing scheme. By the time a
>> new scheme is dreamt up to fight the pirates, another system will be in
>> place, it's endless.
>
> And western countries will become no better than China in their
> totalitarian censorship policies...
Oh, come on - I think there's a bit of a difference between "you can't
post material you don't have the rights to" and "you can't speak out
against your government without risking your life". Again, let's get
some perspective, please.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> IKWYM, but LimeWire popped up; BitTorrent is a transfer protocol, bit
> different than Napster or Limewire....
Blocking BitTorrent is really stupid. If someone sets a FTP server with lots
of pirated material, they'll block FTP? It's a damned PROTOCOL. It can't be
illegal on its own. It's how you use it.
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:07:20 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> IKWYM, but LimeWire popped up; BitTorrent is a transfer protocol, bit
>> different than Napster or Limewire....
>
> Blocking BitTorrent is really stupid. If someone sets a FTP server with
> lots of pirated material, they'll block FTP? It's a damned PROTOCOL. It
> can't be illegal on its own. It's how you use it.
Yep, agreed.
Jim
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> Oh, come on - I think there's a bit of a difference between "you can't
> post material you don't have the rights to" and "you can't speak out
> against your government without risking your life". Again, let's get
> some perspective, please.
Soon we will be in a situation where you really can't speak against
your government (about certain issues) without being fined or jailed,
which in many cases is effectively almost as bad as risking your life.
You know, there are certain issues which are becoming more and more
a taboo, and which are overriding freedom of speech. Not too unlike what
has happened in China where, for example, speaking about the Tiananmen
Square events is taboo and will get you fined or jailed.
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- Warp
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