Recent content by Marcus Thomas

Of all things, it had to be Futurama.

This isn't a matter of minor personal preference, Dark Souls is missing basic features that have been present in nearly every PC game made since 3D graphics were introduced to gaming.

I'd say that it's pretty bad if they failed to meet a basic standard established over fifteen years ago. Nobody's complaining that they didn't make it look better, the issue is that a game with such potential has been needlessly limited. The beauty is already there, all From Software needs...

I get what you're saying, from what I've heard about Dark Souls it sounds like a great game, and I could enjoy it with a slower framerate and limited configuration options, but producing an image less that half the size of my monitor would be a significant barrier to enjoying the game.

You insult me by assuming that PC gamers care only about graphics, when we petitioned for that port we didn't expect them to bend over backwards for us. I can't speak for anyone else but all I expected from them was two things: no GWFL, and the option to change the F***ing resolution. It's too...

I consider that to be extremely barbaric. The concept of innocent until proven guilty is pretty timeless.

While it would be reasonable to expect this guy to have some amount of encrypted data, the prosecution seems to have the idea that he has used every last bit of these drives capacity. If he were to turn over content that was smaller that the expected 5TB they might think he was withholding...

His use of encryption has been proven by this point, but TrueCrypt is designed in such a way that without the password(s) the encrypted data is indistinguishable from random junk. So the examiner's claim that that he had over 5 TB of encrypted data cannot be proven without the password(s).

But in this case the defendant is not making an unsubstantiated claim, instead the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. How can they compel him to turn over documents if they can't even prove they exist?

Yes, but producing the contents of the encrypted drives is testifying to the existence and contents of those drives, and that part is what the court ruled as protected by the fifth amendment.

From the opinion filed by the EFF: "In his testimony on cross-examination by Doe, however, McCrohan conceded that, although encrypted, it was possible that the hard drives contain nothing." I think this means that in this particular case only the use of encryption has been proven, not the...

You forgot to mention the possibility that empty space on a drive (perhaps left by securely deleting a file) might be mistaken for encrypted data.

But encrypted data does get the same legal protection as other documents. A court can't just order someone to turn over documents that might not even exist, that would be like ordering someone to make up false evidence just to incriminate themselves. In this case the FBI seized his computers...

Good, we need to speak up when we don't like what the industry does. But I wonder if EA will mistake any drop in sales as "piracy losses".

Whiskey and popcorn... great.