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Terrorism, web sites, games and privacy (anonymity)
pazur:
Blacklight: Tango Down looks nice. So there will be a SDK for level designers once it's out?
ratty redemption [RIP]:
pazur, not sure but here is the gametrailers.com page for blacklight
http://www.gametrailers.com/game/blacklight-tango-down/12790
kat:
--- Quote from: kat on July 24, 2010, 05:10:51 PM ---Didn't Urban Terror get into some trouble a few years back over some 'terrorist' modification?...
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Found it. It was a movie put together in Battlefield 2 - GamePolitics - "Was Congress Misled by "Terrorist" Game Video? We Talk to Gamer Who Created the Footage"
--- Quote ---CM: ... When did you first come up with the idea for the video? Is there a story the video is trying to tell, or is it just a collection of interesting footage from the game?
SJ: The idea came to me when I saw that Team America movie. GREAT movie everybody should watch it. This video was just for fun with a Team America twist. There is a character [Gary Johnston] in the movie that talks about his goats getting killed by a Blackhawk helicopter and that's why he wanted revenge. I just took that story for my BF2 video and worked it out.
CM: What was the original intent in making the video? Fan-film, demo of gaming skill, protest, art project, clan recruitment, just for fun?
SJ: It was just a fan-film made by me. There are a lot of films made by the battlefield community. There is an in game battle recorder, so that encourages [you] to make movies about the game you have just played.
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And this is typical of what the above article spoke about.. how the movie of the mod was misappropriated by Congress and used to justify speaking out against games.
ratty redemption [RIP]:
to quote that kotaku article:
--- Quote ---What we have seen is that any video game that comes out. they'll modify it and change the game for their needs
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wow, really? so iow anyone who mods any type of video game is therefore a terrorist? thank god we have the american and british governments to protect us from such despicable acts ;)
kat:
--- Quote from: ZDNet ---Summary: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has invoked the Patriot Act on Wikileaks’ domain registrar, in a bid to access information on founder Julian Assange.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/wikileaks-homeland-security-invokes-patriot-act-on-assange-seeks-server-data/55950
Imagine the above applied to the guy that built that 'terrorism' mod?. It would mean the Federal Gov getting hold of all the data pinged by the server.. all the IP addresses and other potentially locatable information to do with 'who' downloaded the files, what they looked at on site, any and all comments made (including those in private members areas), and if they had a game server, who played on it, from where and how often. And the real kicker is that the US Government seems to infer that US law again trumps EU and individual country sovereignty and laws (even if law courts here say otherwise). Crazy stuff.
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