It’s 73 and sunny out. Mass Effect will be there next week, especially since they removed the multiplayer.... I’m cooking out this weekend

Considering how pretty much every piece of publicly distributed software in history has been pirated, the idea that “copyright infringement .... [is] really all you need to protect digital software” is beyond absurd.

That’s technically incorrect and being repeatedly glossed over in the comments. A user doesn’t have to own a license to the game and its assets; the user has to possess a copy of those assets. How those assets are acquired is left unstated and a lot of people in the comments are making the assumption that, because…

I think what you mean is “otherwise legal” things. Otherwise, that is, except for the statute that makes it illegal to tamper with or disable the lock. That reverse engineering might be protected; the disabling of the control mechanism is not. 

However, its customer service has received a lot of flack for months-long shipping delays, with many owners venting their frustration on social media.

Not until they actually have a network to rival Steam’s, which is what they’re spending all this money on. Because the #1 thing Steam still has over Epic (which, after three years, finally is in usable condition with most of its key features) is network effect.

Totally understandable. If you don’t do this for a living you’re probably not trained to look at the yellow sticker and question who introduced the evidence. 

Not sure if this is a rhetorical question but this is the plaintiff’s exhibit, so Epic (or, indirectly, Epic’s lawyers) provided it. Courts don’t introduce evidence, parties do. 

Because as a trial attorney you never, ever assume the factfinder knows something you haven’t told them. If they miss the point of your argument because they don’t know that “Switch” is a proper noun and not a verb, you can fail to make your point. And if you fail to make your point, and the case is close, you can…

Oh that’s just purely the clerk screwing up the Zoom controls. Which, as someone who has Zoomed into court hearings over 100 times since March of last year, I can assure you is still shockingly common. 

There is a federally recognized First Amendment right of public access to the Courts, so if they’re closing the courtroom they had to allow press and public access digitally in one way or another. A non-interactive stream (Youtube) would have been fine though.

The best solution is the very simple solution: change your passwords.

That header gif is facts.

I’m not sure it tracks given that the quarter in question is only the end of December through March. By which time most families would have converted over to whatever mandatory Zoom devices they’d need for multiple people in school or working, because that’s 9 months into the pandemic already.

And by making the cutoff too high (and not adjusted to cost of living) they left lower earners, especially in more expensive areas, grossly understimulated. 

Couldn’t put my finger on why I was so into it, but there it is

anything but white in the eyes of the cops

Definitely had no idea this dude was Tigole. No idea who Jeff Kaplan is (probably because I’m not an Overwatch guy).... extremely familiar with Tigole. Thanks for the clarification.

Well that explains the fraudulent unemployment claim a couple months ago.

There’s literally nothing “black market” about the resale of an entirely legal and unregulated product.