Jammie Thomas, the single mother of 4 who’s more or less become the poster child for filesharing in the 2000′s has lost yet another case. That makes (3) times now that a jury has stood with a straight face and awarded a broken, backwards thinking company ridiculously high damages. Jammie Thomas’ latest bill for sharing a mere 24 songs comes in at $1.5 million. Her last case totaled $1.92 million and her first was the lowest of them all at $222,000. ...
My oh my, incompetent and mindless companies (and their PR departments) never cease to amaze me with their senseless comments. Take for example, THQ’s response to disapproval they’ve garnered after announcing that they won’t provide DLC for used games, specifically THQ’s new WWE: Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. I don’t think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything. We hope people understand that when the...
Apparently ruffling the feathers of countless devs and customers over the whole Boobie Ban of 2010 wasn’t enough. Besides, if you sit there long enough, you could rationalize that porn really isn’t that big of a market. But what about something more useful, say WiFi scanning apps? While bare bones basic WiFi scanning is built into the phone for when connecting to a WiFi network, there are numerous WiFi scanner apps that divulge a slew of helpful information...
Like heaping piles of BS early in the morning to get your morning off to the perfect cynical start? Well aren’t you a lukcy human, you’ve come to the right place. As you all may know, Apple recently went an a great purging of any titillating and “sexy” apps from the app store. Thousands of apps showing boobs, butts, and stomachs were removed from the App Store because apparently, “women and children were bitching in mass numbers”. The...
This whole massive fight against so called “piracy” that has been blamed for everything from the death of the music industry to the cause of world hunger is unfortunately, not going anywhere anytime soon. I can tell however, who will be going somewhere (as in out of business somewhere) very soon – Ubisoft. Let me clarify — Ubisoft will go out of business if they continue to release games with DRM like that of the cancer that’s found in...
