If you go to
Grokster.com you're greeted by the familiar old Grokster logo, and something new:
"The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is
illegal." The message continues with the slightly disingenuous "There are legal services for downloading
music and movies. This service is not one of them," and finally, a bizarre quasi-threat: "YOUR IP ADDRESS IS
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX AND HAS BEEN LOGGED. Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous." The page also
includes links to MPAA and RIAA projects RespectCopyrights.org and Music United. I'm not exactly sure who's in charge
of the domain name now—I rather doubt it's Grokster, Ltd., despite the logo—or who they think they're going
to impress, but I find it pretty laughable.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
