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Peter Molyneux fa autocritica. Gioca d'anticipo il geniale Game Designer, portando alla luce alcune magagne di Fable 2 che sarebbero sicuramente state notate dai giocatori di tutto il mondo. In particolare Molyneux punta il dito su alcuni momenti di basso profilo all'interno del gioco, dove in particolare il gameplay sembra accusare alcuni cali di ritmo. "Non è colpa di nessuno, però sono là", aggiunge Peter ai microfoni di OXM. L'autocritica si estende anche al lipsync dei personaggi che, a suo dire, poteva essere gestito meglio e ad alcune animazioni che probabilmente non saranno definite come lo stato dell'Arte nell'Industry videoludica. Peter metter le mani avanti, ma precisa anche che Fable 2 rappresenta esattamente quello che lui vorrebbe da un videogioco. Non resta che aspettare il prossimo 24 Ottobre. L'intera intervista è consultabile a questo indirizzo. ...www.gamesurf.it autorizza pc-facile.com a riportare la presente news.
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Earlier this year, we wrote about how the Norwegian Consumer Council, an independent organization financed by the Norwegian government, was telling people not to sign letters the recording industry was demanding ISPs send to users, which would put liability for file sharing on those users without any sort of due process. Now the NCC is back suggesting a special independent committee to handle copyright infringement cases. From what's written, it sounds like it would act as a separate process for copyright holders to bring charges of copyright infringement, that avoids an expensive and overcrowded court systems, while still allowing individuals due process and a guarantee of other basic rights. The NCC proposes that this is a much better solution than, say, cutting off accused file sharers with no due process.
The idea definitely sounds a lot better than what's out there now -- but there could be unintended consequences as well. Here in the US, for example, we set up a special Federal Appeals court for patent lawsuits (CAFC), because of complaints about patent lawsuits clogging up courts where judges knew little about patent law, leading to bad outcomes. However, what happened was that CAFC became dominated by former patent attorneys (if not in numbers, in terms of influence) who significantly shifted the scope of patent law towards patent holders. In setting up a special court or arbitration system to deal with copyright infringement, there's a risk that it, too, could become dominated by interests focused solely on strengthening copyright law. While I definitely think it's a more interesting and productive proposal than most others out there, it's worth wondering if there would be unintended consequences. It still seems like the better long-term solution is for copyright holder to simply start embracing better business models.
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