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Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Aug 01, 2000 6:00pm PDT
Related Topics – Wack News, RIAA

What? Huh? Yeah Evening Reading didnt quite happen yesterday... went to see the movie Loser (sucked btw). Well at any rate here are a bunch of unrelated items (That bitch sleeps around we dont know who the father is!) under the same heading just because. Check it:

- Following up on the Arena.net announcement, here are a few bits/interviews on GameSpy.com, Gamecenter, and Stomped - The RIAA has posted their response to the Napster order of staying online from last week. (Need a PDF reader) - Copyleft (they make t-shirts) is getting named in a lawsuit for printing source code on t-shirts (heh) - The US Postal service is considering offering free email to everyone in the US. (Yeah, a little old but oh well)


























  • Speaking of pot.
    Some dude on the CS shack server ran right past an enemy in Artic skins (The White one). Of course, he gets wasted by the artic dude and we're like, Dude, you are blind.

    He said, "Leave me the fuck alone, I'm stoned right now."

    Everybody cracked up, except me... (well, I did chuckle)

    Thats when I decided that drugs are no good, and it wasn't Nancy Reagan, Just Say No, D.A.R.E., This is your brain on drugs or any other anti-drug campaign.

    It was from the fact that it would make my CS game suffer.
    That's a sobering thought.



  • You want answers?
    I think I'm entitled--
    You want answers?
    I want the truth!
    You can't handle the truth! The truth is that we live in a world that has source code, and that source code has to be guarded by men with guns. Who's going to do it? You? You Mr. /. reader? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for 2600 and you curse the MPAA. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that banning the DeCSS code, while tragic, probably makes people money. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, makes me a hell of a lot of money. You don't want the truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me in your computer system, you need me on that computer system. We use words like copyright, code, royalty. We use these words as the backbone of defending a an ancient business model. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very exorbitant prices that I charge and then questions the manner in which I charge them. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a DVD player and start buying movies at forty bucks a pop. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!