Filed under: Web services
What the internet gives, the lawyers taketh away
Nine of the sites -- among them Napster, Mp3.com, OLGA and Singing Fish -- are yet sweet memories, while one still stands with one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel; Pandora. As of May14th, due to the ridiculous wrangling involved in international licensing, Pandora went offline for all users who reside outside of the US of A. Ironic that, given that it's the good ol' USA which has 2 months to clear up the mess caused by a mandate to increase streaming royalties, or face the fact that streaming radio -- as we once knew it -- isn't going to exist anymore.
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, ...
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rijit said 7:35PM on 5-21-2007
Lawyers = Bunch of thieving no good blood suckers, if you are asking my opinion.
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Khidr said 9:40AM on 5-22-2007
It's absolute garbage to try to push that off on lawyers, especially when it's also "lawyers" trying to save these sites and change copyright law and licensing issues (EFF anyone?)
This nonsense is brought on by corporate content owners, plain and simple.
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