Very Serious! Anti Tcpa Sites!

TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
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<a href='http://www.againsttcpa.com' target='_blank'>http://www.againsttcpa.com</a>

Pls visit this site and inform urself!

This is very serious guys.
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  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2537Members
    That's super and all, but what is this doing on a NS-related site?
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  • RazorClawRazorClaw Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7413Members
    Sounds scary, would this make mods impossible as well? Would turn the PC into a damn console where the only software you can run is what you buy...
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  • BergerBerger Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8945Members, Constellation
    Holy. . Crap. Read <a href='http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html' target='_blank'>http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html</a>, all of it. I know its long, but it's better than the default FAQ on the site. If this is something real, and not like MAVAV <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> , this could be really nasty.
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  • LaserApaLaserApa Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1638Members
    Me and a few pals came to the conclusion that this will just open up a new market for computermanufacturers that provide Tcpa-free hardware. Softwarepiracy is everywhere you look. Try to think of someone you know that dont do it in some way or another. People are gonna want to by computers that are not Tcpa and someone will provide it.

    Thats what we sat around talking about one friday night, and if you think sitting round talking about computers while drinking is sad... well it is <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    We will just have to wait n see...
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    LOL


    ok, that website is sorta stupid (spelling/grammer as bad as mine)
    If you want some decent info look here: <a href='http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html' target='_blank'>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html</a>

    basic deal is that it will be some nasty encryption stuff built into stuff
    an example of this is any one who was silly enugh to use one of the newer versions of WMA to rip musick (you can only listen to it on the ocmp that ripped it, lol)

    All this menes is that it will be much harder to break the law(piracy and such), and make it so that companies could make it very hard for you to install/run competitors software (IE word docs could be heavily encrypted)

    basicaly, if you are REALY AFRAID




    go learn linux
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  • SanchoSancho Join Date: 2002-03-30 Member: 365Members
    They wouldn't possibly be this stupid. I wouldn't worry about it.
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    no more warez :-(
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Someone Who Cares+Jan 24 2003, 05:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Someone Who Cares @ Jan 24 2003, 05:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->They wouldn't possibly be this stupid. I wouldn't worry about it.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    This is real, sorry.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    I heard about this a while ago, but I thought it was a joke. Not good. This is not good.
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    TCPA / Palladium are the probably most urgent threats to personal liberty a non-government has ever created. The problem about the 'then let's just don't use it' philosophy is (and I'm not making this up) that at least in the US there is currently a law in progress that would ban any non-TCPA system. Seeing how far the rest of the western world copies the American tech legislation, similiar stuff will come up for everyone of us.
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  • Llama_KillerLlama_Killer Join Date: 2002-07-30 Member: 1029Members
    edited January 2003
    NNNOOOOOOOO



    Actually i just tought of something really dumb just now what if once they code this into say windows or other software? Will you be able to play certain games or will this seriously restrict you gaming possibilities like no more hl,Ns,DoD,Cs,Dc,Si,Fa,Bf1942 and friends... Only eval microsoft games or partner games that buy an eval license from microsft....
    ITS TEH END OF TEH WORLD!!!!11



    /me goes outside and makes friends with llamas
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    If that law passes, "clean" computer hardware will become an underground thing. There's no way I'm EVER ditching my computer, no matter how slow it'll be considered in the future if TCPA is our fate! If I get arrested for choosing to be different, so be it. This crap shouldn't hold up in courts, it's a blatant violation of the law and basic human rights. Imagine this: You store pornography on your computer. It's nothing different, just regular pornography. One day, a Microsoft employee is browsing files and comes across the pornography on your computer, opening it up. He'll be able to delete it if it offends him in any way. Invasion of privacy, right there.
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    OK Right


    www.linux.org
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    look, that bill I not gona pass, and if it does it will be the most heavily contested bill ever

    mainly seeing how as the entire gaming comunity + the liberal freaks (who are ALOT of computer junkies) + the entire open source movement + all of the linux ppl (ok the last 2 are rather simmiler ;D) fighting it

    It aint gona happen, remember what happened to, sweden?, iceland? crap forgot what country, they tried to ban all forms of electronic gaming, guess what happened?
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Greece. Difference: This time, the industrial lobbies aren't on our side.

    Also, I used the wrong term. The law isn't 'in progress' as in 'going through the commitees', but 'in preperation', as in 'being planned'.
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  • Llama_KillerLlama_Killer Join Date: 2002-07-30 Member: 1029Members
    / me stops shaking hands with the eval leader of the llamas and shoots him in head and all his llama friends MUHUHAHAHAHAHAHA


    erm ok

    sorry bout that i wanted this 550th post...
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