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Today the British government (a) decided 3 strikes was unenforceable and, more importantly, (b) suggested increasing ISP's prices to cover a mandatory fee to 're-imburse' the music industry for users piracy.
I think this legally obliges me to steal media now... http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5586761.ece
If my blurred rambling didn't make sense. Heavy weekend ;p I got it - the three strikes thing threw me because it was introduced when I was outside blighty.
The music industry has long being going down the tubes since they want to hang onto hard formats - that being the only way they can squeeze a profit. How much longer are cd's going to be a viable format? And if you can fit thousands of songs onto most other forms of media then hard formats become obsolete. Not much to do with the topic, or pirating music, but; http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/01/16/valve-pirates-are-underserved-customers Criminalising your customers a bad idea? It's mind-numbing how slow most of the industry CEO's are, considering games are supposed to be the new media. there seems (to me, anyway) to be a downward spiral at the moment where more people are pirating because of stricter drm
a couple of flash games with boiled-down "coop" puzzles. you control multiple entities, toggle between them, and solve puzzles.
http://lightforce.freestuff.gr/threesome.php http://www.kongregate.com/games/sebby_man/two-rooms Don't think it requires such a top of the line pc, it ran very well with all settings maxed, but my vid card is pretty new.
My girlfreind's netbook will run it on Medium:
9300 M GS (8400 equiv) 256 dedicated Vista (!) 2Gb DDR2 667 5400rpm HDD Atom 270 (1.6Ghz) Runs OK, occasional mild stuttering, but y'know - it's a Netbook! Brilliant game. I run 1920x1200 on an 8800GTS on High! :) Buy it...... running on high settings on my laptop (2ghz core 2 duo, mobile 8600gt, 2gb ram, XP) at 1280x800, getting a good 30fps.
Off topic-ing a bit more, my personal favourite media industry tactic is using download statistics as a lost profit model.
This means that every time an album is downloaded, they count it as an (~)15$ loss of earnings that can be written off against profits to avoid paying tax. ie, for every album downloaded the publishing company makes ~1$ in taxes they don't have to pay. Whether the downloader would have bought the album or not, the publisher makes money (and the artist gets screwed). You're joking. Big business are such scum. Maybe someone will get a chance to give G.W.B. a bullet now.
<Loosen collar> Fallout 3 does look amazing :>.. saw it briefly on a 360. I played Industri/Tenebrae for the first time too. Nice looking Q1 engine. pretty cool, liked it better than the second one (combat is heaps less frustrating) and although some of the puzzle design is a bit tired in spots, very satisfying on the whole.
the "Goldeneye : Source" team released beta3 of their mod this/last week, and its fucking awesome.
Anyone who had some serious GE64 matches in their time wont be able to help raising a smile here, its a very faithful recreation of the multiplayer experience. http://goldeneyesource.net/ Around 500mb for the Beta3 client, and worth every second it takes to download imo :) Eye of the storm for HL2 Episode 2
http://eots.half-life2.cz/english.php Is part 1 of a single player episode that has very high quality standards, its still downloading here so I can't give a more accurate description but the screenshots look niiiiice IGN score of 8.3. The video review does a good job of showing what's improved from FEAR - mainly the gripes I had about repetitive environments and gameplay are primarily fixed, and it does look a lot better than FEAR did.
Anyone else on the fence about this one?
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