Thumbs Up to Playing Hardcore: Nintendo, which fought an unending and losing battle against piracy on the Nintendo DS, isn't fooling around with the Nintendo 3DS. The new system can apparently sense if you're playing a pirated or copied game. If it does, it will shut down and never restart. Take that, ya scurvy dogs!
Thumbs Down to Greedy Publishers: In case you haven't heard, the greedy nitwits over at HarperCollins are now telling libraries that once an eBook has been checked out 26 times, it must be repurchased. This arbitrary and unrealistic approach is hitting libraries at a time when they can least afford it.
Thumbs Up to Filled Gaps: In my review of "Tron: Legacy," I noted the film had skipped over a time period that sounded incredibly intriguing. Disney is now going back and filling in that gap with the "Tron: Uprising" television show. I'll be curious to see how this turns out.Thumbs Down to Schizophrenic Sony: Just days after Sony dropped the price of its PlayStation Portable system, it cut the cost of the more streamlined PSP Go. At least it did for a couple days. Whether that price drop was a mistake or the result of some marketing intern's tomfoolery, Sony has since restored the PSP Go to full price. Boo.
Thumbs Up to Gym 101: Because far too many people still need this gym primer three months following New Year's resolution time, I'd recommend everyone who even occasionally hits the gym read this etiquette guide. It also gives some very positive and practical suggestions on how to get started for people who've never set foot inside a fitness center.
Thumbs Down to Stupid Mistakes: Across the pond, parents are up in arms over an upcoming Nintendo Wii game from Ubisoft called "We Dare." In short: The game is intended for mature audiences and features minigames that encourage kissing, stripping and the like. The problem? The ratings board for Europe, PEGI, labeled it for ages 12 and up because nothing explicit is shown within the game. Bad move, PEGI.
Thumbs Up to Ceaseless Tinkering: I've come to accept that George Lucas will never stop tinkering with the Star Wars films. So I welcome his newest reworking of the movies, tossing them into the 3D arena. If it works, great! If not, well, it'll be no worse than that new dance number in "Return of the Jedi."
Thumbs Down to Predictable Storytelling: I think highly of the medium, but comic books have a tendency to paint by numbers during each Big Event. Keep this far too accurate checklist in mind this summer when you're trying to predict what will happen next in Marvel's Fear Itself or DC's Flashpoint.
Thumbs Up to Boba's Accordion: I knew that Boba Fett was a good bounty hunter, but who knew he was musically inclined?
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"Thumbs Up to Playing Hardcore: Nintendo, which fought an unending and losing battle against piracy on the Nintendo DS, isn't fooling around with the Nintendo 3DS. The new system can apparently sense if you're playing a pirated or copied game. If it does, it will shut down and never restart. Take that, ya scurvy dogs!"
... For about a week until someone figures out how to fool the system. Oh, and when Nintendo switches their rights protection software and bricks some 12 year old's 3DS (who doesn't even know what a pirated game is). Yeah, that'll be fun and swiftly swept under the rug.
I know I was fucking pissed that I couldn't play new games on my PSX because of shit like that Sony pulled. I had to mod chip it to play new games. Games I paid for. I never pirated a PSX game before that, but after the hoops I had to jump through to make the game I paid $60 for work, I had fewer qualms about doing so after.
While certainly a hard core, and draconian, way to approach the problem, if I know anything about the pirating community, it won't stop the hard core pirates. It'll only create issues for the casual pirate (and for the occasional bystander with some faulty code on either a game or the system itself), which is probably what they're going for.
You're right, there has to be something done about pirating at the levels we're at now (thank you interwebs!), but I don't think this is the right way to do it. I wish I knew the right way to do it, it'd probably be worth a mint. 8^)
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