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Just want to make some clarifications on Number 4.
It took over a week before Steam admitted credit cards may have been taken. The standard practice after being hacked is to KNOW exactly what was taken before you mention anything. Of course standard practice is to shut down all associated servers which may have been hacked to ensure information that WAS taken cannot be used on the servers it was taken from. Sony did this, Steam said "fuck you" to customers because, c'mon... Skyrim and MW3 were coming out and they REALLY, REALLY need that money, guys. Just more proof that you're 100% in the clear to fuck up, so long as gamers love you. Everything about the Steam hack was a much worse scenario than Sonys yet blogs barely covered it. Hell, blogs barely covered anything but Skyrim for that period.
Online passes, yeah, it's controversial so I'll let that one slide.
Sony, however, was among the first companies to pull SOPA support. Seperate from the ESA, however. But hell, even Notch is backing that fucker. Sad thing is this, if SOPA fails, which it will, expect another attempt. A better worded attempt and less vague law. Why? BECAUSE FUCKERS WON'T STOP STEALING. Sopa is a horrible attempt at stopping this but a LOT of the outrage is coming from people who are bitching about the glass cases for video games at walmart while their pockets are filled with slit DVDs. Content providers will continue to fight this battle because piracy as a whole has gone up dramatically year over year. SOPA is only part of the problem, "consumer" behavior needs to change.
It took over a week before Steam admitted credit cards may have been taken. The standard practice after being hacked is to KNOW exactly what was taken before you mention anything. Of course standard practice is to shut down all associated servers which may have been hacked to ensure information that WAS taken cannot be used on the servers it was taken from. Sony did this, Steam said "fuck you" to customers because, c'mon... Skyrim and MW3 were coming out and they REALLY, REALLY need that money, guys. Just more proof that you're 100% in the clear to fuck up, so long as gamers love you. Everything about the Steam hack was a much worse scenario than Sonys yet blogs barely covered it. Hell, blogs barely covered anything but Skyrim for that period.
Online passes, yeah, it's controversial so I'll let that one slide.
Sony, however, was among the first companies to pull SOPA support. Seperate from the ESA, however. But hell, even Notch is backing that fucker. Sad thing is this, if SOPA fails, which it will, expect another attempt. A better worded attempt and less vague law. Why? BECAUSE FUCKERS WON'T STOP STEALING. Sopa is a horrible attempt at stopping this but a LOT of the outrage is coming from people who are bitching about the glass cases for video games at walmart while their pockets are filled with slit DVDs. Content providers will continue to fight this battle because piracy as a whole has gone up dramatically year over year. SOPA is only part of the problem, "consumer" behavior needs to change.
@sheppy - Sony has not backed out of SOPA, thier games division fell back like every other game company has because it's a politically safe move. The rest of Sony, however, is fully behind SOPA and practically stood hand in hand with thier old friends, the RIAA and the MPAA, as it was written.
Sony will be in this to the bitter end; as they have with thier partners for over a decade now.
Sony will be in this to the bitter end; as they have with thier partners for over a decade now.
@caraleo,
I hate to ask, but how is SOPA punishing those who pay? Just what have YOU been told the intention of the law was? I ask this because there is a whole lot of generic rage and very little is actually known by most of the people. The core intention of the law was to block foreign websites (legal "safe harbors" for copyright protected content piracy) that promoted and provided pirated content. The reasoning behind this is that NO piracy based website can legally operate inside of the US, they quickly get shut down. However, out of country, out of reach in regards to the DMCA. The only legal reprecussions were to, instead, target the downloader, not the provider. A tactic which has been controversial, to say the least. (see: RIAA lawsuits) One of the core intentions of SOPA is to censor and block all foreign websites providing content.
By that same token, SOPA intends to hold companies like PirateBay.org and Google responsible for providing links to copyright infringing material. In other words, if you Google Search "Modern Warfare 3 ISO" and you get ANY hits to torrents, links, etc, then SOPA intends to hold Google responsible for the infringing material despite Google not hosting it themselves.
The other issue being raised is what you can do with copied material, aka, SquareEnix busts their ass making the cutscenes for their games. So why in the fuck is Machinima making ad revenue by recording and posting something SquareEnix made on Youtube? These are the legal grey areas that SOPA is intending to regulate.
However, like all bad laws, the legalise is vague at best and like the Patriot Act reactions, many are using the ultimate doom based scenario to get across how horrible of a law this is. However, as a result of the Patriot Act, nobody threw your grandmother in jail because she listened to "Fuck the Police" by Ice T without due process or any other rights. SOPA coverage has been, unfortunately, just as shamefully irresponsible of reporting as the average Fox News piece. In other words, President Obama isn't trying to sell your social security to the chinese and SOPA is not going to block your Netflix.
What SOPA needs is less restrictions and more targetted focus. SOPA will fail, have no doubt. The next attempt, however, will be worse because it will actually be written by someone who will be actually intelligent enough to withstand Supreme Court scrutiny. As much as we can claim we own this government, consider this. We pay a senator for an outcome and that's bribery. Warner Brothers does the same thing, that's lobbying.
I hate to ask, but how is SOPA punishing those who pay? Just what have YOU been told the intention of the law was? I ask this because there is a whole lot of generic rage and very little is actually known by most of the people. The core intention of the law was to block foreign websites (legal "safe harbors" for copyright protected content piracy) that promoted and provided pirated content. The reasoning behind this is that NO piracy based website can legally operate inside of the US, they quickly get shut down. However, out of country, out of reach in regards to the DMCA. The only legal reprecussions were to, instead, target the downloader, not the provider. A tactic which has been controversial, to say the least. (see: RIAA lawsuits) One of the core intentions of SOPA is to censor and block all foreign websites providing content.
By that same token, SOPA intends to hold companies like PirateBay.org and Google responsible for providing links to copyright infringing material. In other words, if you Google Search "Modern Warfare 3 ISO" and you get ANY hits to torrents, links, etc, then SOPA intends to hold Google responsible for the infringing material despite Google not hosting it themselves.
The other issue being raised is what you can do with copied material, aka, SquareEnix busts their ass making the cutscenes for their games. So why in the fuck is Machinima making ad revenue by recording and posting something SquareEnix made on Youtube? These are the legal grey areas that SOPA is intending to regulate.
However, like all bad laws, the legalise is vague at best and like the Patriot Act reactions, many are using the ultimate doom based scenario to get across how horrible of a law this is. However, as a result of the Patriot Act, nobody threw your grandmother in jail because she listened to "Fuck the Police" by Ice T without due process or any other rights. SOPA coverage has been, unfortunately, just as shamefully irresponsible of reporting as the average Fox News piece. In other words, President Obama isn't trying to sell your social security to the chinese and SOPA is not going to block your Netflix.
What SOPA needs is less restrictions and more targetted focus. SOPA will fail, have no doubt. The next attempt, however, will be worse because it will actually be written by someone who will be actually intelligent enough to withstand Supreme Court scrutiny. As much as we can claim we own this government, consider this. We pay a senator for an outcome and that's bribery. Warner Brothers does the same thing, that's lobbying.
Homefront was my own personal number one. I absolutely loved the online play but they screwed the infrastructure so badly for the PS3 that the game was unplayable.
Groups didn't work. If you grouped with a friend or friends, you would get separated into different game lobbies when you launched. Even alone, getting into a game was a nightmare of epic proportions. You launched into a lobby and waited... and waited... and waited. Often, just as the game was about to launch and had the people, you would get booted from the lobby for idling - (WTF!). The inability to easily get into a game and the inpossibility of easily playing the game with friends doomed this game to failure on the PS3. I held out for about 4 months and they still never patched it. I don't think they ever did. Such a great game concept... such a shitty execution of basic online infrastructure. Once you were in a game, the game was great ... but who wants to spend half their gaming time just trying to get into a game with a friend???
Groups didn't work. If you grouped with a friend or friends, you would get separated into different game lobbies when you launched. Even alone, getting into a game was a nightmare of epic proportions. You launched into a lobby and waited... and waited... and waited. Often, just as the game was about to launch and had the people, you would get booted from the lobby for idling - (WTF!). The inability to easily get into a game and the inpossibility of easily playing the game with friends doomed this game to failure on the PS3. I held out for about 4 months and they still never patched it. I don't think they ever did. Such a great game concept... such a shitty execution of basic online infrastructure. Once you were in a game, the game was great ... but who wants to spend half their gaming time just trying to get into a game with a friend???
