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[MetalSlimeHunt]

To be fair, Toady has a doctorate in a field of mathematics that I don't recall.

[darkrider2]

To be fair, Toady has a doctorate in a field of mathematics that I don't recall.

I thought it was he quit to work on DF full time?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

He quit being a college professor to work on DF full time. You can't quit having a doctorate unless your university convicts you of academic fraud.

[darkrider2]

Ooooooh he was a professor. Sorry I was mistaken.

[Bauglir]

It kinda makes me wonder why we still use the publisher and developer system.

I know how it works now, but with the internet it seems like distribution isn't that much a problem anymore. Developers can pretty much put something up for sale on their own.

Initial investment is still a problem, but I guess crowdfunding goes a little ways towards helping the devs in that regard. Not to mention some developers like Toady don't need an initial investment.

There's a major problem, and personally I think it's rooted in capitalist philosophy. The basic gist of it is that people who currently have the ability to define the economic system have a very strongly vested interest in introducing inefficiencies into it, because even if it costs the system overall money, it's profitable for them. There's a much longer rant behind this, but that's the short version. We've advanced to a point in our economy where the short-term returns in efficiency have diminished so much that sabotage is more worthwhile. It seems to exist in every industry these days that's having these sorts of "crises" even as they rake in record profits somehow.

[Sensei]

Methinks their criteria for suspected pirate downloads is large downloads. Download, or especially torrent, large files frequently? They might throttle you down. Just to save them bandwidth.

[Sheb]

I can only recommend that article in the NYTimes if you havent read it already.

[PTTG??]

Everybody Get TOR up and running.

[Itnetlolor]

Looks like I'll be needing to complete my One Piece and other great shows and movies and music collection before it's too late.

[Scelly9]

Methinks their criteria for suspected pirate downloads is large downloads. Download, or especially torrent, large files frequently? They might throttle you down. Just to save them bandwidth.

Goodbye MMOs.

[Aklyon]

Methinks their criteria for suspected pirate downloads is large downloads. Download, or especially torrent, large files frequently? They might throttle you down. Just to save them bandwidth.

Goodbye MMOs.

I'd like to see them prove they're allowed to throttle based on size. Since there are many legal files thats are a couple hundred MB (to a couple GB) in size. You can't throttle someone just because they have a vague 'large file', theres no proof that said file is illegal.

[kaijyuu]

Since when do they care about proof? Suspicion is enough.

[Skyrunner]

Adobe won't be amused if customers start to avoid downloading stuff because they'll get their internet throttled. O_o

[Aklyon]

I'd be worried about proof if I had to choose between having many angry customers or helping with this anti-piracy BS 'voluntarily', though this assumes they're actually going to check things. Theres a very noticeable neon pink line between practicality and hollywood's idea of the internet, and crossing it to make a bunch of rich whiners who can't adapt to the new thing is stupid and worth nothing. They are only at best, a couple business-class customers for a US Western ISP. Capitalism is not there to support them if they can't keep up, they can be left in the dust of history with the horse & buggy makers for all I care.

Internet Providers are for providing Internet. Like many things related to or on the internet, they are not your personal army.

[Duuvian]

If they want to attack piracy why can't they just take down sites like "The Pirate Bay" .

National Sovereignty