Re: NOT a piracy group (+3, Insightful)
Dan East a day ago
even going so far as to make customers pay a licensing fee to play stolen games
It's a pretty fine line between "releasing" pirated games, and charging a fee to allow people to play pirated games they obtained elsewhere. You can split hairs all you want, but the end result is the same - a 3rd party being paid in order for someone to play a game that they did not pay the original publisher for.
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Re: NOT a piracy group (+1)
rtb61 a day ago
They also did not "hijacks the hard work of individuals working", the idea is laughable. We all have seen what really goes on, that has already happened, when most of the coders who created the game are laid off, now reward for them from the licence fees.
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Mod chip development != piracy (+5, Informative)
Powercntrl a day ago
This news release is disingenuous as claiming Home Depot is a “homicidal weapons dealer” because some people used their tools as murder weapons.
Team Xecuter sold DRM circumvention devices, which is outlawed by the DMCA unless granted a specific exemption.
As with the legal battle presently transpiring over “walled gardens” on mobile devices, gaming consoles also lock you out of the hardware you’ve paid for. I suppose the Ministry of Truth can’t have people realizing that Team Xecuter were actually the good guys, fighting against an unjust law.
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Locked down hardware forever.
Malays2 bowman a day ago
"As with the legal battle presently transpiring over âoewalled gardensâ on mobile devices, gaming consoles also lock you out of the hardware youâ(TM)ve paid for. I suppose the Ministry of Truth canâ(TM)t have people realizing that Team Xecuter were actually the good guys, fighting against an unjust law."
And the real bad guys have won. We are going to get buttfucked forevermore. Where are you going to run, to Nintendo's competition? Ha! They are doing the same thing. Run to the Kickstart console that may or may not be vaporware that just about nobody knows about? Yawn, just an insignificant dent there.
Locked down hardware is here to stay, and it's only going to get worse instead of better. Soon they will igure out a way to make 'jailbreaking' just about impossible. Keep this in mind while the industry tries to push everyone to "The Cloud", and "Trusted this and that", and so forth. Once we are "pwned" by the big man, there is no going back, except for a very small minority of device users.
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Re: Locked down hardware forever. (+1)
Malays2 bowman a few seconds ago
I don't know why this was modded down, because it's the truth. Are people rushing in droves to buy a Kickstarted console vs a Nintendo Switch or a Playstation?
Most gamers will happily put up with locked down hardware so they can play their happy shiny game. They should care that the hardware is locked against THEM, treating them like a potential criminal, but they don't.
There is no legal incentive for companies to stop locking down their hardware, and there is very minimal social incentive as well. So we are stuck with it forever. And now they know they got away with doing this with game consoles, and tablets/phones, they will do it to everything else.
People laughed at us when we tried to warn of the dangers of "Trusted Computing" 15-20 years ago. They laughed. Now everything is on the fast track to being "Trustworthy" (locked down against the owner).
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Mealy mouth cunts (+3, Insightful)
Malays2 bowman a day ago
That's what our glorious "leaders " have become with this drek that they spewed out. That, and they willing to whore themselves out and get things like the DMCA passed which not one American citizen voted for.
Fuck them, and I bet plenty of the people who are going after this "ooh scary INTERNATIONAL hacking group" have child porn and other illegal material on their own computers.
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Re: Mealy mouth cunts (+2)
reboot246 a day ago
American citizens NEVER vote directly for national laws. The DMCA was passed by Congress (all of whom are American citizens) and signed by the President (also an American citizen).
So your "not one American citizen voted for" is bullshit. Your own Senators and Representative voted for it. If you don't like the law, vote in somebody who will vote to repeal it.
Do they even teach civics in schools nowadays? If they do, you must have flunked the course.
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Re: Mealy mouth cunts (+1)
Malays2 bowman a day ago
And these same people are supposed to represent the interests of the American people, not just companies. By passing the DMCA, they told most of the American people to go fuck themselves. If it were really up to a direct vote by American citizens, how many do you think would've voted for this? (I should've been more clear in my post as to what I meant by "nobody voted for this") I would say close to 0, provided they were not brainwashed with scary slow motion B&W images of faceless hackers working in a pitch dark room with sinister music played over it.
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Re: Mealy mouth cunts (+1)
Malays2 bowman a day ago
"So your "not one American citizen voted for" is bullshit. Your own Senators and Representative voted for it. If you don't like the law, vote in somebody who will vote to repeal it."
WAY easier said than done. Provided we could even find one that can resist accepting a generous "gift" by 'special intetest groups' that want to get DMCA type laws passed.
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Re: Mealy mouth cunts (+1)
DigiShaman 8 hours ago
Congress isn't controlled by the American citizens. They're just agents to get them elected, while near instantaneously they turn around and flip them the bird in return. Corporations control Congress. The American citizen is just a useless mouth breather.
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Hacking device for 3DS (+1)
LenKagetsu a day ago
Imagine paying money for something like that and not just installing Luma CFW.
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Jesus (+1)
bumblebees a day ago
It seems they put way more effort in getting white colar "criminals" doing piracy and general copyright stuff than they do taking down druglords or trafficers. Is MAFIA funding that department when they seem to have so much manpower?
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Remember kids (+1, Troll)
TerminaMorte a day ago
Riot and burn down buildings? You'll be released without charges. But don't you dare touch a corporation's intellectual property.
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Re: Remember kids (+1)
lessSockMorePuppet a day ago
That's because modern businesses are highly segmented operations. Typically, a small core company develops IP and retains the bulk of the profits, another company is saddled with the capital equipment and real estate, and a third company (if not many, such as caterers and janitors) extracts value from laborers and pays the bare minimum legally required benefits...sometimes. Frequently, they don't even bother to hide their illegal and abusive treatment of workers.
This system expands the wealth gap while ensuring that no company offers a real career advancement path anymore. There's no room to grow within a company anymore--you need to switch fields to the investor class (good luck, try being born rich).
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Re: Remember kids (+1)
DigiShaman 8 hours ago
Depends on which side of the Communist revolution you're on.
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Was ruled legal 10 years ago by local court (+1)
Saffaya a day ago
Interesting article from 2009 :
https://www.eurogamer.net/arti...
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justice.gov twisting words again. (+1)
The_Revelation 21 hours ago
Justice.gov are confusing the words 'criminal' with 'revolutionary' again. They also appear to be confusing the words 'America' with 'Japan', unless Nintendo and Sony suddenly became US companies, in which case someone needs to update their respective wikipedia pages. And, look, if this stuff was actually 'illegal', Nintendo and Sony wouldn't be profiting off emulation technology to sell new versions of their old consoles or games. Defeating the technological constraints of game console hardware is so integral to the Nintendo Switch software line-up that its effectively makes up more than 50% of most owner's software library.
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PIracy is worse than guns... (+1)
AlexHilbertRyan 17 hours ago
One has to wonder how guns remain legal after killing tens of thousands each and every year but selling a mod chip....
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Re: PIracy is worse than guns... (+1)
OrangeTide 16 hours ago
Guns mainly kill poor black people.
Mod chips mainly deprive wealthy people of some profit.
ahh.. now I see what we need laws to protect us from mod chips.
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