absurd, yes. sickening? there's a lot worse going on in this world that probably deserves the "sickening" moniker. write your congress-critter[1], and make sure that you're donating to the EFF[2]. a plug for the EFF folks is in order. they hire lawyers and see things through the court system. they lobby folks and they promote awareness on these issues. if you're going to get peeved about this stuff, you might as well work to do something about it. :) On Feb 12, 2005, at 8:37 AM, John Meier wrote: > This is just sickening... > > http://www.securityfocus.net/news/10466 > > > .... "Hackers, if they're allowed to do this kind of thing, will be > allowed to hack into any game, anywhere," Pfeiffer warns. "We spent > millions of dollars to develop these games, and people are coming in > and changing the code to their liking, and that's illegal." > {snipped - misc. signatures} references ---------- [1] - http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm? State=MN [2] - http://www.eff.org -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050212/33ead1bc/PGP.pgp