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Offline LunarOrbit

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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2006, 12:10:36 PM »
Excellent review, Bob!

I have a copy of "AFTHOTWTTM" (even the acronym is ridiculously long!) which I bought for $5 from someone on the internet, but not from Sibrel directly. It was still too high a price to pay.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2006, 06:23:29 PM »
I just added a 1-star review.  Too bad you can't give zeros.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2006, 08:18:34 AM »
Quote from: DonPMitchell on February 07, 2006, 06:23:29 PM
I just added a 1-star review. Too bad you can't give zeros.
I don't see your review; it looks like mine is still the most recently submitted.  Do you know what's up with that?
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2006, 02:06:42 PM »
Hmmm, I dunno where it went.  It was only a few lines long, maybe it was rejected?
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2006, 06:49:59 PM »
Or is it a conspirtcy?

*shiftyeyes*
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2006, 10:14:51 PM »
Has anybody visited the Bit Torrent web site?  You should be able to login with a username and a password in order to access the downloads, and then search for Mr. Sibrel's Astronauts Gone Wild video.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2006, 11:34:23 PM »
As someone who works in retail I don't normally condone downloading copyrighted videos or music as they are someone's source of income (and not always someone rich). But in this case... I'd be quite happy to see Sibrel go broke.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2006, 11:54:25 AM »
I should clarify my stance... while I would like to see Sibrel to go broke I would also like to not get sued by him. I can't allow links to bit torents in the forum... sorry, SCEtoAUX.

If people want to download his movies they will have to find out how somewhere else.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2006, 11:02:45 AM »
*cough*, could that be amended to illegal torrentz, Bit Torrent in itself being perfectly legal (sorry, misunderstanding of copyright law is somthing a pet peeve of mine).
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2006, 11:29:03 AM »
I will allow legal bit torents as long as the site linked to doesn't also provide links to illegal torents. Piracy is something of a pet peeve of mine.
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Piracy...
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2006, 06:43:31 PM »
Years ago, when I ran the local computer club, we had a visit from a pair of 'Men in Black'. They pretended to be Dads checking us out, but their body-language screamed 'Auditors'...

( I wasn't bothered. We were clean: Members knew I'd kill-switch piracy... )

After a while, the puzzled MIB came to me, identified themselves as 'Federation Against Software Theft' (FAST) inspectors and thanked me for running a 'clean' club. I shrugged, told them it was our policy, and we enforced it.

They ruefully admitted ours was the *first* club they'd visited where piracy was not rife.

I said ours would also be the *last*. Our honesty was costing us members, and we'd probably fold at year-end. We did.

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Re: Piracy...
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2006, 07:38:50 PM »
Quote from: Nik on February 12, 2006, 06:43:31 PM
I said ours would also be the *last*. Our honesty was costing us members, and we'd probably fold at year-end. We did.

Whatever the industry claims about losses, I strongly suspect that things are a lot better than they were in the old days.  Piracy doesn't seem to be so much a growing problem, as a constant one.  Really unfortunate to hear about the club, hope it was a long time ago.
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2006, 08:16:31 PM »
The biggest piracy problems are from the pros.  For example, China puts national resources behind pirating media and software.

There is also the legal, but somewhat undermining practice of reverse engineering.  You get situations where the pioneering company puts huge resources into research and development (e.g. Microsoft Office) and a competator that does no R&D and just copies it right down to the level of the typography engine (e.g. Open Office).  The effect is more parasitic than competative.
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Long, long ago...
« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2006, 09:29:53 AM »
"...unfortunate to hear about the club, hope it was a long time ago."

Oh, yes, about 1990...

The 'windows' wars had got serious, Apple and Microsoft were lawyered-up and sueing everyone. Home computers were becoming generic, the consoles had arrived and kids had stopped writing their own games. Didn't help that any 'WIMP' OS meant getting 'Hello World' onto screen took an acre of set-up code!! I knew the 'last act' had begun for our club.
 
By the time Java Script and 'Beans' came in, we had the internet, forums and ftp.

D'uh, waaay back, when I wrote a column for local (!!) computer mag, I was unofficially known as The Hexadismal Kid because I *could not* hand-code 6502. But, I could write elegant (if idiosyncratic ;-)) BASIC. So, I got a full symbolic assembler and used that...
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Re: Sibrel's astronaut encounters
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2006, 05:15:50 PM »
It's amazing - less than 10 years later, kids at school are still amazed to hear that we used to routinely program simple games on our computers, and that bottom level computer courses at university were mainly about algorithms and programming!

Ah, BASIC.

10 CLS
20 PRINT 'GDAY EVERYONE'
30 INPUT A$
40 IF A$ = 'GDAY', THEN PRINT 'YOU ARE A WELL BROUGHT UP FELLER'
50 IF A$ <> 'GDAY', THEN PRINT 'OI! WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS?'
60 END

No kidding, that was my first ever program.  Still have it on an Apple 2 floppy disk somewhere.
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