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This is why I install my games on a separate bootable harddisk, which I only boot when I want to play a game.
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> But there’s a significant difference. Valve’s policy is self-restricted to anything on your PC directly relating to its own products. EA’s is so broad that it gives the publisher permission to scan your entire hard drive, and report back absolutely anything you may have installed, and indeed when you may use it, and then pass that information on the third parties. So currently Valve uses that clause mainly to scan…
EA also updated Origin's EULA after that article was posted: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/26/ea-revises-origin-eula-dat...
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It's the suits job, nay legal obligation in the case of a publicly held company, to maximize profits. No, it's the suit's job to run the company in the interest of the shareholders. That is not the same thing as 'maximize profits at all costs' (such as, at the cost of future litigation that will exceed the instant profit). This idea that if an opportunity for profit exists, the management is legally obliged to seize…
Where does the personhood of a lump sum of money[1] come into play here? [1]: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/connecticut/ctdce/3:2011cv0...
Proceedings in rem are usually for the purpose of determining whether there's sufficient evidence to decide that a piece of property is a component in or the proceeds of crime, even if nobody has been caught. An example would be a drug bust where the criminals flee but leave behind a brick of cocaine and a suitcase full of cash. The government can't just seize the money and spend it; it has to come up with some objectively reasonable argument for why the valuables would be forfeit.
They do publish details of upcoming hearings in advance, so if you see that the government is trying to keep your stuff and you have a really good explanation for why you should get it back (eg it was stolen but you didn't call it in because you were in a coma following the robbery), then you can turn up at the hearing and get custody back.
EA must leave PC Marketing at once and stick with Consoles.
By breaching every countries privacy law under false Amerikan Democratic.
Can we say Shitocratic?.