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A compact disc case and blank for forming the same. The case includes a pocket inside of an envelope for holding a compact disc. A cut-out portion provides easy grasping of the disc to permit removal and insertion into the case. A flap folds over the cut-out portion providing a closable case for holding and storing the disc. The flap has a detachable folded portion which can be used to place a mailing label on, then folded over and about the case and sealed to provide a mailing container. The folding portion can then be detached and the case is used to permanently store the disc.
1. A combination storage and display case for compact discs comprising:
a storage portion detachably attached to a display portion, the display portion being foldable about the storage portion along tearing line means whereby said storage portion can be detached from said display portion by tearing along said tearing line means, the storage potion having a front wall hingedly connected along the bottom and sides thereof to a back wall forming a pocket open at the top for receiving a compact disc therein between the front and back walls, the back wall of said storage portion being hingedly secured to a hinge, said hinge being hingedly secured to a panel portion detachably connected to said display portion along said tearing line means thereby detachably connecting said storage portion to said display portion, said panel portion being detachably connected to said display portion by a pair of score lines extending on each side of a tab integral with said panel portion and unconnected to said display portion.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to compact disc cases; and, more particularly, to a combination compact disc storing and mailing case and blank for forming the same.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Compact audio discs (called CDs) are rapidly replacing vinyl records for a wide variety of reasons. However, present day CDs are stored in hard brittle plastic cases, called jewel boxes. The jewel box consists of two pieces of molded polycarbonate which are hinged along a common side to permit the opening of the box as one would open a book. A styrene tray with a center hub that engages the hole in the center of the CD is snap fit into one of the polycarbonate pieces. The jewel box is difficult to open, and it is difficult to remove the CD from the hub without bending the CD. Further, CDs are also rapidly replacing cassette tapes, particularly in vehicles, where the operator, who may be the driver, must remove the CD from the jewel box in a one handed operation. Such boxes, however, are difficult to open with one hand, are very fragile, resulting in easy breakage of the hinges holding the polycarbonate pieces together (which hinges do not give or flex). The boxes are also easily broken if dropped and, because of their materials and construction, are quite expensive to manufacture. This high cost has served to keep the retail costs of CDs quite high.
In addition to the foregoing, CDs are shipped to disc jockeys or the like for promotion and preview in such cases. The distributor of such free CDs is of course quite interested in reducing its costs. Cardboard cases have been used but have not been successful.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,620,630 to Moss, a CD enclosure is disclosed which can be converted from a display mode (FIG. 2) to a storage mode (FIG. 4). No removable flap on which a mailing label may be placed is shown. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,850,731 to Youngs, a vinyl CD storage case is disclosed having a pocket for storing a CD. Again, no detachable portion on which a mailing label can be placed is disclosed.
There is thus a need for a combination CD storage and mailing case wherein a mailing label may be placed on a detachable portion of the case so that the detachable portion can be removed after receipt and the remainder of the case used as storage.
It is an object of this invention to provide a combination compact disc mailing and storage case with the mailing portion being detachable after receipt.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a blank for forming the aforementioned case.
It is still further an object of this invention to carry out the foregoing objects using inexpensive materials, such as cardboard, with few parts.
It is still further an object of this invention to provide a two-piece case for holding compact discs, one of the pieces being detachable from the other and discarded.
It is another object of this invention to carry out the foregoing object wherein mailing or advertising material may be placed on the discarded piece and the other piece having a pocket for receiving and storing the compact disc.
These and other objects are preferably accomplished by providing a compact disc case and blank for forming the same. The case includes a pocket inside of an envelope for holding a compact disc. A cut-out portion provides easy grasping of the disc to permit removal and insertion into the case. A flap folds over the cut-out portion providing a closable case for holding and storing the disc. The flap has a detachable folded portion which can be used to place a mailing label on, then folded over and about the case and sealed to provide a mailing container. The folded portion can then be detached and the case is used to permanently store the disc.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the compact disc case shown in the open position with a CD disposed therein;
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the case of FIG. 1 shown in the closed position with a portion thereof removed;
FIG. 3 is a view taken along lines 3--3 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a view taken along lines 4--4 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of the case of FIG. 1 shown in the closed position for display or mailing;
FIG. 6 is a back elevational view of the closed case of FIG. 5; and
FIG. 7 is a plan view of the storage portion 11 alone of the case of FIG. 1, the envelope portion of the case being shown in position prior to assembly.
Referring now to FIG. 1 of the drawing, a combination compact disc storing and display or mailing case 10 is shown. Case 10 thus has a storage portion 11 and a detachable display or mailing portion 12. As will be discussed further, case 10 may be formed from a single planar blank and be of an inexpensive foldable material, such as cardboard. Thus, portion 11 is detachable from portion 12 along score lines 13, 14. Score lines 13, 14 do not extend all the way across; as seen, a tab 15 is connected to portion 11 along a fold line 16. When assembled, as seen in FIG. 2, tab 15, shown in dotted lines, is inserted through a slit 17 (see also FIG. 1) on the front wall 18 of the storage envelope portion of the case 10 (upper detachable portion 12 having been removed along score lines 13, 14 in FIG. 2). The envelope portion of case 10 is thus comprised of a front wall 18 and a back wall 19. As seen in FIG. 3, back wall 19 is connected to a hinge 20 which hinge 20 is connected, at fold lines 21, 22, to upper panel portion 29 of storage portion 11 and to back wall 19, respectively (see also FIG. 1). Walls 18, 19 may be one integral piece folded at the bottom at fold line 23. Wall 18 may also be lesser in overall height than wall 19 (see FIG. 1) having an arcuate cut-out area 24.
As seen in FIG. 4 (and as will also be explained further hereinbelow with regard to FIG. 7) front wall 18 has a pair of side flaps 25, 26, hinged to front wall 18 at fold lines 27, 28, respectively. Flaps 25, 26 are glued or otherwise secured to back wall 19 thus forming a pocket for receiving compact discs 30 between front and back walls 18, 19 and closed off on three sides. Further, as seen in FIG. 2, after removal of portion 12 by tearing it off along score lines 13, 14 and about flap 15, thus detaching it from panel portion 29, panel portion 29 is folded about hinge 20 and tab 15 is inserted into slit 17 forming the storage envelope of case 10. Panel portion 29 can be thus quickly and easily inserted, via tab 15, on to front wall 18 and disc 30 can be easily and quickly removed and replaced. The foregoing can be carried out one-handedly.
Indicia can be printed on the front of wall 18 and the back of wall 19, such as the artist, the songs on the disc, etc. A removable insert, if desired, can be placed into the pocket holding the disc 30, if desired, with further information, as desired. Also, the interior walls of the pocket holding CD 30 can be provided with any desirable chemically treated materials for protecting the disc 30.
The display portion 12 is one elongated planar member having three folded portions 31-33. Portion 31 is connected to panel portion 29 at score lines 13, 14 and about tab 15. Portion 31 is connected to portion 32 at fold line 34. Portion 32 is connected to hinge 36 at fold line 35 which hinge 36 is in turn connected to portion 33 at fold line 37. Finally, a removable adhesive strip 38 is provided at the upper end of portion 33 which may be peeled off to expose an adhesive surface as is well known in the art.
As seen in FIG. 5, case 10 is folded about hinge 20 and about fold line 34, and then about hinge 36 with portion 33 overlying portions 29 and 31. Portion 31 and interconnected portion 29 may be thus slightly greater in length than portion 33. The strip 38 is shown in dotted lines and is abutting against the portion 31. Strip 38 can now be peeled off and the portions 31, 33 sealed together for mailing or display. Of course, any suitable sealing means may be used, such as tape. Finally, as seen in FIG. 6, one or more labels 39, 40 may be glued or otherwise secured to the back of portion 32 providing mailing and shipping information or advertising or other promotional information. Of course, certain information, such as the source of the case 10 which may be printed on label 40, may be printed directly on portion 32.
It can thus be seen that there is provided a case which can be shipped to a recipient, or displayed in a store of the like, then, after receipt or purchase, the recipient can detach portions 31, 33 (FIG. 5), open the case and detach display portion 12 from storage portion 11 along score lines 13, 14 and flap 15. Storage portion 11 can then be used to permanently store the compact disc 30.
Prior to assembly into the position shown in FIG. 1, the storage portion 11, as seen in FIG. 7 (shown detached from display portion 12 for convenience of illustration), is open along fold line 23 with flaps 25, 26 also shown in an unfolded position prior to assembly and gluing. Thus, it can be appreciated that case 10 can be formed from a single blank of planar material, such as cardboard. Storage portion 11 is quickly and easily folded to form the envelope shown in FIG. 1 by folding flaps 25, 26 inwardly (or over on top of wall 18 as seen in FIG. 7), glue is provided along flaps 25, 26, then the folded flaps 25, 26 and interconnected front wall 18, is folded along fold line 23 over and on top of wall 19 to form the envelope shown in FIG. 1 as previously discussed. The only addition to display portion 12 would be the provision of an adhesive surface as indicated by provision of strip 38.
There thus is disclosed a blank for forming case 10. Although cardboard is preferred for low cost and ease of assembly, obviously other materials, such as flexible plastics, may be used. Indicia may also be provided along the exposed outside of hinge 20, which forms a spine for the storage portion 11, to provide for indexing and the like, since the entire case 10, when assembled for shipping as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, is lower in weight than conventional jewel boxes, it is cheaper to ship. After receipt, the shipping information or generic company markings, can be torn off at score lines 13, 14 and about tab 15, and tab 15 is merely tucked into slit 17 to provide a permanent storage case with indicia on the spine (hinge 20) and outside wall 19. The storage portion 11 is easily opened and re-closed. Although a particular embodiment of the case and blank is disclosed, variations thereof may occur to an artisan and the scope of the invention is to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims. The dimensions chosen may vary but are preferably chosen for conventional 4 3/4 " diameter compact discs and, thus, is preferably only slightly grater than the disc diameter. For example, when in the FIG. 5 position, the folded case 10 may be about 5" in length and width and only about 3/16" in thickness. Of course, compact discs or even laser discs of different diameters may be enclosed in larger cases made in accordance with the teachings of my invention.
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Bay temperatures are rising and water clarity is improving, so I expect blue water in the gulf should come in earlier this year. At the jetties, a spoon is your best friend. Use a smaller spoon for Spanish mackerel and redfish. I recommend a wire leader, heavy mono or fluorocarbon to avoid being cut off. At the Port Aransas jetties, larger spoons (one- to two ounce) and topwater baits should be effective on large jack crevalle and redfish. Be prepared to lose some tackle. Bring extras lures. If you're fishing with natural bait, sheepshead are still hitting live and dead shrimp on the bottom or under a lemon rig. For trout, live shrimp and finger mullet should work.
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I would definitely start out around Estes Flats, targeting trout and redfish while drifting. Bait fishermen, use shrimp under a popping cork around the Rockport area. I like to rig shrimp with a Kahle style or croaker hook through the tail. If you prefer lures, then throw small topwater plugs such as a Skitterwalk all day for trout and reds. Or throw soft plastics such as the Bass Assassin split-tail shad in natural colors. The water has been clear in most areas. Watch the wind as it will really discolor open areas. I would also spend some time around the outside of the islands around Rockport. Cruise around until you see baitfish.
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Get some live shrimp and a few popping corks and head to Dagger Island. If it's calm, then anchor up and target the guts for trout. If it's windy, you might try drifting. For redfish, go to the inside of Dagger Island and use the same method. Target any island shoreline. Keep moving when the bite slows at one spot. If it's really calm, try the wells of Corpus Christi Bay, using free-lined shrimp with a small split shot for trout.
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I would start the day in the Shamrock area, using live shrimp under an Alameda Rattling Float for trout. If that does not work, then I'd move to Ingleside and target Dagger Island. The trout are there, mostly on the outside in the guts. For redfish, I recommend the flats of Shamrock or inside Dagger, using either perch or shad while targeting the sand holes. Reds are there as well.
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Try drifting or wading the rocks of Rocky Slough for trout and scattered reds with live shrimp or soft plastics and topwater plugs. The rocks in Baffin Bay are starting to produce some nice trout along with drum. Use live shrimp and a popping cork for them. If you want to make the ride, the south end of the cut has some nice trout anywhere from three to five pounds along with some reds and a few drum. Remember to be courteous to your fellow fisherman and waders.
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Summer-like conditions are bringing the big redfish and trout up super skinny. Fly fishing is kicking off early, so on days when the weather allows, I'd look for shallow grassy shorelines. The south shoreline of Baffin Bay, the Tide Gauge Bar and the spoils along the Upper Laguna Madre and the Nine-Mile Hole are hot right now. Small white Clousers are working well, but conventional lure casters are cashing in too. Try a pink Skitterwalk (baby and full size) for some great topwater action. Target potholes and stingrays for big blowups.
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Start out at Four Fingers, throwing shallow diving crankbaits, spinnerbaits and Texas-rigged lizards in depths of one to four feet. Work the shallow points next to deep drop-offs. Male bass are staging up for the spawn. For bigger fish, move to depths of six to 12 feet and throw Texas-rigged or Carolina-rigged plastics, such as small swim baits or shad-colored flukes.
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Minnesota Vikings (7-6) at St. Louis Rams (6-6-1) The Vikings won last week as home dogs against the Bears, but I'm still not sure about them. Christian Ponder once again had a terrible game, completing 11 of 17 for 91 yards and an interception. In his last 7 games, he's 107 of 191 (56.0%) for 970 yards (5.1 YPA), 6 touchdowns, and 8 interceptions. Adrian Peterson is awesome, but you can't win in the NFL without at least decent quarterback play. Illustrating this, they are 2-4 this year when Ponder completes 60% or fewer of his passes and 4-2 when Adrian Peterson rushes for 5.0 yards per carry or less. Against Green Bay, Peterson went off for 210 yards and they still lost 23-14. Last week, they beat the Bears by 7, but not because of their offense. Their defense returned one Jay Cutler interception for a touchdown and another one to the goal line, setting the Vikings up with an easy touchdown. Their offense only really led one good drive all game and Peterson did almost all of the w...
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$825—$1,285 1—3 bed 4933 Parkview Drive, LAKE OSWEGO OR, 97035
Previously Listed from $825 1—3 bed
4933 Parkview Drive, Westlake, Lake Oswego, 97035
Commute to Downtown Lake Oswego
This apartment is in the Westlake neighborhood in Lake Oswego. Nearby parks include Westlake Park, Westlake Park and Southwood City Park.
Kruseway Commons Apartments has a Walk Score of 45 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
Looking for a 2 bedroom with large living and dining room area? You've found it here. You will appreciate every square foot of this place with fully equipped kitchen, good size bedroom, plenty of closet space, washer and dryer, patio or balcony and upgrades galore!
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Lorrie Anderson
Jun 26, 2015
Feels like we live at a resort, we LOVE it! We've lived here for 6 years. Awesome staff, respectful and cheerful maintenance. No complaints!
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Apr 04, 2015
People in office is not really friendly. Horrible management. Deposit never come back. We are charged more than $200 because we are a couple days late to send leaving notice to office. We didn't renew the rent, they should have reminded us about this. They have no mercy. Many neighbors are very loud until very late. Some of rotten tree started falling down. It hit our neighbor's car last year. This apartment has so much rules. I didn't feel that I am a resident. I am very glad that I can leave here. I won't never come back here again.
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May 26, 2013
Did my homework when looking for an apartment and this was one of the best! No parking issues, helpful and friendly management, great LO area, close to freeway (without hearing it), 3 min to wash square, 10 min to downtown, lots of walking trails around, I had super quiet neighbors, my unit was updated (dishwasher, washer/dryer in unit), little more expensive than tigard/ beaverton but the rent also includes cable (never paid for internet cuz of "generous" neighbors)... The place is worth the extra change!!
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We have only lived here for two weeks and are already looking forward to leaving when our lease is up. Although our apartment was supposedly vacant for two months before we moved in, much of the apartment was not ready for anyone new to move-in and our maintenance requests were ignored. So heres whats happened already. First night, a strange guy opened our front door with his own key at 11:30 pm and walked right in to our apartment. Yep, he had his own key that Lacey had given him, although locks are supposed to be changed between tenants. Although maintenance replaced the lock a day later, it took speaking to Pam and Lacey several times. They kept saying it didn't need to be changed because our neighbor Ryan was a "nice guy". Unbelievable. Mailbox key didnt work for over a week and a half. Pam and Lacey kept telling us to "jiggle the lock". Finally mentioned it to the mail woman since we couldnt get to our mail. Miraculously, a new key was made, but it doesn't work either. One of the two toilets doesnt flush half the time. Maintenance guy Ryan said it was just "low water pressure". Then why does the other one work fine? The refrigerator has one shelf. Yep, just one. We cook a lot and have kids but cant possibly fit enough food for more than one meal on the one shelf in the fridge. No shelves in the freezer. Lacey and Pam told us to buy our own. Since they have a lengthy checklist of things they charge tenants for when they leave, including ice trays (which they dont even have), Im wondering how many tenants they charged for things they never provided in the first place. Our water heater is quite loud and right off the kitchen/dining area. Every time anyone takes a shower, it sounds like a freight train through the living room. The washer is old and doesnt work well. Dryer is as well. Both are quite loud and right next to my daughters bedroom. The dishwasher is practically worthless. Were running our dishes through twice now and theyre still not coming clean. We initially thought living in an apartment where we didnt have to buy our own appliances was a good thing. Nooo. Not so. Especially when the appliances provided are loud, old, and non-functioning. And when maintenance is not maintenance but excuses. Right now were waiting for Pam and Lacey to tell us to go buy our own washer and water heater. That seems to be their response to everything. Did I mention that theres a noise curfew at Kruseway Commons? You cant move in or out between 10 pm and 8 am. You also cant run the washer, dryer, or dishwasher. You cant have wind chimes but your neighbor can play his loud stereo. You also are only permitted certain things on your patio/balcony, although I see that rule broken all the time. We can't put moving boxes there, but our two neighbors can put their canoes there. Fortunately, we dont live on the Kruse Way side of the complex. But just taking our recyclables to that end of the complex is an experience in really loud noises. I pity the poor fools who live there. BTW, there are no garages to rent here and most of the carports are taken by the office staff (Lacey and Pam are the worst). The ones that are empty are empty for a reason. Expect to pay for off-site storage at someplace like UHaul or Public Storage because there is very little closet space in the bedrooms or the kitchen. Half of our kitchenware is now in storage.
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VERNON — Two Vernon women, fighting different diseases, are both using crafting talents in an effort to make a little extra money to help with medical expenses involved with their treatments.
Neither is able to work since illness struck.
Dianna Shugart knew that her family had a long history of heart and cancer problems.
When she started doubling over in pain, those were her first thoughts, especially since she had been a smoker for some 40 years.
She had managed to end the habit several months earlier.
Months later, she felt that "something was just not right" with her body. She made an appointment with her doctor.
On one blood test, normal is in the 1.5 range, but hers was 6.5. "He called the next day and told me that I was in end-stage renal disease," Shugart said.
She was quickly referred to a specialist who ordered a fistula for her left arm for dialysis needles.
Dialysis was started immediately because her kidneys were rapidly failing. "For about six weeks, until the arm area healed, they used an area in my chest near my heart for the treatments," she said.
She has the treatments Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at Wilbarger General Hospital. The doctor said the illness was most likely a result of stress and high blood pressure.
Shugart has been on the transplant list at Medical City in Dallas for more than a year and a half. She was told that it may take several years to find the right kidney because of the number of antibodies in her system.
Shugart said she has been doing crafts forever. She just relies more on them now.
She uses Mason jars to make various potpourri jars, including some with lights and other contents. She also crafts festive cake plates and candle holders.
"I put the money I earn from the crafts in a special little account to help with expenses," she said.
Before her illness she worked for the state of Texas for several years, including both the Texas Youth Commission and North Texas State Hospital.
She said the hardest thing about her illness is that she has always enjoyed helping people, now she has to limit all her former activities.
Michelle Bankston said doctors think a bacteria invaded her body in the summer of 2011, sending her life into a tailspin.
She said she and her sister went fishing at Quartz Mountain Lake one day in June. "I got hot and went under the water about three times trying to cool off," she said. A few days later she began having flu-like symptoms. About two weeks later while at her job selling vehicles at a local automobile dealership, her neck and legs started getting paralyzed. "I couldn't even move," she said.
After what she termed "a wild-goose chase," doctors diagnosed her condition as Reiter Syndrome. She also suffers from side effects of the disease including rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.
She travels to Ardmore, Okla., every six weeks for Remicade intravenous infusion treatments.
Doctors have tried several treatments, but so far nothing has helped relieve the never-ending pain she suffers. "The doctor said that if this doesn't work, we will try something else," she said.
Bankston said that it has been a "life-changing" experience. "One day I finally asked God why I had to suffer so much pain," she said. The answer came to her about 4 o'clock one morning when she was unable to sleep.
"God told me that it was because I was strong and he knew that I would not want it to happen to anyone else."
Bankston also uses crafts to make extra money to pay for the added expenses associated with her illness.
Bankston makes and designs crosses, barn wood signs, letters and other items.
"If I can draw it, my husband can cut it out," she said. She said the crosses are her biggest item.
The additional funds help with expensive co-pays for the treatments, medications and traveling expenses. "The amount of medication I take is ridiculous; it's a whole big bag full," she said.
Bankston recently received some encouraging news.
Doctors told her that she might be a candidate for physical therapy.
Her body was in too bad a shape earlier, but they think that now it might help her.
"I'm hoping that I will be able to do that in Vernon and not have to travel so far," she said.
Meanwhile, both women maintain very upbeat attitudes and try to live life to its fullest despite their afflictions.
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Some useful US context on mass piracy lawsuits
One of the most striking things about the move by new company Movie Rights Group to start targeting thousands of Australians for allegedly illegally downloading copyrighted films is that it came out of the blue. Many people won't know what to make of the issue, given that Australia doesn't have a history of this kind of behaviour. But the United States does.
Over the past week or so since the company's actions were revealed, a number of readers have forwarded me several insightful articles detailing the history of similar companies in the US. And the picture they paint of this kind of behaviour is quite disturbing.
An article by Wired in March this year makes it clear that for the new breed of organisations devoted to stopping copyright infringement on the Internet, enforcing their clients' rights is not the prime objective. Making as much profit as possible from the issue is. From the article:
"Welcome to the future of Hollywood, or at least the less glittery outskirts of Tinsel Town that produce art films, exploitation flicks and porn. Over the past year, small-budget film producers have nearly perfected a slick, courtroom-based business strategy that's targeted more than 130,000 suspected movie downloaders."
"In contrast to the the RIAA's much-criticized and now-abandoned war against music pirates — which targeted 20,000 downloaders in six years — the movie lawsuits appear to have been designed from the start as for-profit endeavor, not a as a deterrent to piracy."
The article paints a picture of organisations almost building copyright enforcement actions into the business model for producing films. The legal mechanisms for targeting alleged file-sharers are automated as far as possible; plaintiffs are entitled to settle and pay a 'fine' in a similarly automated process; and many will simply do so, having little to no knowledge of the broader legal debate.
As in Australia with Movie Rights Group, the chief legal method which the copyright enforcement groups are relying on is mass-subpoenas. In a 2010 lawsuit filed by one of the more high-profile organisations, known as the US Copyright Group, a Washington District Judge approved subpoenas relating to more than a thousand Time Warner Cable customers.
Another article published by Arstechnica in 2010 lays out a timeline of such cases, dating back to January 2010 and detailing the standard modus operandi:
"The model couldn't be simpler: find an indie filmmaker; convince the production company to let you sue individual "John Does" for no charge; send out subpoenas to reveal each Doe's identity; demand that each person pay $1,500 to $2,500 to make the lawsuit go away; set up a website to accept checks and credit cards; split the revenue with the filmmaker."
Now, I don't want to draw too long a bow here. Movie Rights Group has been extremely open with me about their activities in Australia, and I have to give the company credit for that. In addition, we haven't yet seen what the company's letters to alleged copyright infringers will look like. It is also possible, indeed, likely, that the company will become involved somehow in the wider industry solution to the issue of online file-sharing which is being discussed by parties including Australia's major ISPs, the content industry and the Federal Department of the Attorney-General.
But I think what has occurred in the US does sound suspiciously similar to the approach the company is taking in Australia. The same legal approach based on subpoenas. The same independent film studios who've got nothing to lose. The same style of web site, promoting the idea that those targeted through legal letters should "settle" the issue.
In the US, civil rights groups, the courts and Internet users themselves have all expressed a great deal of concern about this kind of 'commercial' approach to settling issues of copyright infringement. It would be a dangerous thing indeed to start to treat the issue of online copyright infringement as an industry which makes revenues like any other.
The aim here should not be to make astronomical sums from Australians who allegedly pirate content. It should be to find a solid and fair balance between those who produce and own content and those who want to consume it. As many have said before me, suing your customers is never a good idea.
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As I posted in the comments of another article, this is exactly why Movie Rights Group (and others) won't be actively targetting the original person who put the file online to be shared in the first place, assuming of course it's not a honeypot to begin with.
It's in their best industry for the files to be shared because it gives them more targets to sue or at least come to a settlement arrangement with.
Yup. You're right; in a commercial play targeting the source would (ironically) undercut their business model.
Bit hard for them to target the original uploader when there is a good chance movie rights group are the original uploader….
As has been said above even i they didn't upload it they have a financial incentive not to stop this file from being shared as they would then have less people to sue.
Surely that's not what protecting copyrights was meant to be about?
I doubt they would upload the file themselves. Doing so would expose them to way too much trouble if it was discovered. It would essentially be entrapment.
Did the IInet have an AFACT connection actively participating in file sharing and in this same way acting to trap individuals?
Well considering these copyright trolls have seen fit to appoint themselves as the police the jury the judge and the debt collector i doubt they fear being outed for uploading a file.
They have no intention of ever going to court so the methods they use will never be scrutinized by the courts.
I'm just waiting now for some other lawyer to see the dollar signs in offering to defend people against these forms of extorsion.
I'd love to see someone like anonymous hack their payment site to send payments directly to some kiddies charity.
"a Washington District Judge approved subpoenas relating to more than a thousand Time Warner Cable customers"
Do we do that in Australia? Is a judge ever likely to approve this, given the current status of the iinet case?
If there is no subpoena (again, is that the right term in oz?) can't recipients safely ignore Movie Rights groups communications?
Movie Right Group can't even contact users without the subpoena. The subpoena is given to the ISP to force them to hand over the names & addresses of users — without it, all Movie Rights Group have is a list of IP addresses.
I'm also interested to know whether a judge would allow them to subpoena 9,000 names & addresses. We have much stricter privacy laws than the US for one, and for two, I can't imagine you'd be able to successfully convince a judge you were actually planning to sue all 9,000 people.
What if I run a limited VPS for anyone to use for free to do as they want, why? because I dont really care, the shared system is jailed and Ive bandwidth and allowence to spare
It's easy to make it go away …
Everyone that gets round one of the "letters", just don't settle … represent yourselves or get your lawschool friends / family to help, or if there are any egotistical lawyers out there, help out on the first round and make a name for yourselves!
i'm so going to download this film, and then delete it.
Is it a breach of copyright if I don't watch?
what happens if i already own the movie?
Sounds a lot like the patent trolls now famous in the US… they have the best stuff there!
It is also possible, indeed, likely, that the company will become involved somehow in the wider industry solution to the issue of online file-sharing which is being discussed by parties including Australia's major ISPs, the content industry and the Federal Department of the Attorney-General.
In which way do you think these guys will become involved in the wider industry solution?
Just by a copy of the DVD of the movie, and say you were getting an electronic backup copy. That's allowed under medium-shifting provisions.
The problem is that they don't care if you downloaded it as the damages of that maybe $30, its that as you downloaded it from a torrent which you upload from as well. you then have helped distribute it to 9000 other people. 9000 x $30 is what they see as the damage you have caused.
These 'people' MUST be defied.
And we must KEEP defying them.
They'll not get a red-cent out of me, under ANY circumstances.
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Photo By Thomas NguyenA group of kids take a spin on the new "Star Dancer" ride at Traders Village. The ride combines a carousel and gondola wheel on an 80-foot tower.
Photo By Thomas NguyenDavid and Carmen Pizarro watch their daughters Semani, left, and Geovanna ride the new "Freefall" amusement park ride at Traders Village.
Traders Village Houston recently unveiled an expanded and refurbished 45,000-squarefoot outdoor plaza featuring new amusement rides and a gazebo to host live music events.
Located on North Eldridge Road, Traders Village provides space for 1,500 vendors offering a variety of merchandise, including a farmers market featuring fresh produce and homemade goods.
The 100-plus-acre flea market's multimillion dollar entertainment expansion opened in May.
"Traders Village is an affordable multifaceted family entertainment venue now," said Carl Foy, Traders Village marketing manager. "Families can come and shop and when the kids get tired of that, they can go ride some rides. Most weekends there is live music or some sort of festival going on, so everybody can sit down and relax."
Four carnival-like rides were added to the market, while four pre-existing and mostly small child-friendly rides were refurbished during the expansion.
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Another new ride, Star Dancer, combines a carousel and a gondola wheel. While traveling up an 80-foot tower, the carousel begins to rotate as it continues upward," Foy said. "At the top, the wheel turns and gives riders an unobstructed, panoramic view of Traders Village and the Cypress-Fairbanks area of Houston."
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Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, passed away Sunday in London at age 94. Although she was best known as a novelist, poet, librettist and playwright, Lessing also tried her hand at graphic novels with Playing the Game, a 1995 fantasy drawn by Charlie Adlard.
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Based on the Chinese zodiac, the book follows a Chinese-American teenager who's drawn into a global conspiracy after he and other youth around the world are suddenly bestowed with magical powers.
Lee already has a relationship with Disney, dating back at least to a 2007 first-look deal with the legendary creator's POW! Entertainment. In 2009, just as Disney completed its purchased of Marvel, the entertainment giant expanded that agreement and acquired a 10 percent equity stake in POW.
In what would seem like a natural outgrowth of their partnership with the Estate of Donald E. Westlake, IDW announced in New York this weekend that they plan to release deluxe hardcover versions of Westlake's Parker novels, designed and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke.
"The Parker novels written by Donald Westlake had a profound effect on me as a young man," Cooke said in a press release. "To first be able to adapt them in graphic novel form, and now to illustrate his prose as well… for me, it just doesn't get much better than this."
Cooke, of course, has been producing the excellent and well-regarded Parker graphic novel adaptations for the last few years, with the next one, Slayground, set for release in December. The first illustrated novel, The Hunter, will arrive in 2014.
"This is the first time the full series will be published in hardcover," Cooke said at IDW's panel on Saturday. He added that he's taking "a completely different approach" to the art style he used in the graphic novels, and that this represents a chance "to make sure these books are properly preserved."
Before you take to the skies in Hayao Miyazaki's final voyage in The Wind Rises, Viz Media is inviting you to take a return trip to an old favorite in a way you've never seen before: the world of Totoro.
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, Viz is publishing two new books about the seminal animated film. Unlike some of Miyazaki's other films, My Neighbor Totoro wasn't preceded by a manga, but it's getting the next-best thing with My Neighbor Tortoro: The Novel, an illustrated novel pairing Miyazaki's watercolors with a child-friendly novelization by Japanese children's book author Tsugiko Kubo.
Although some of Miyazaki's watercolors of My Neighbor Totoro have been seen online and in various magazines, My Neighbor Totoro: The Novel will be the first time they've been officially released all in one bound volume. This hardcover will arrive Oct. 1, along with an updated edition of the popular My Neighbor Totoro Picture Book released a few years ago.
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The work of Los Angeles-based artist Brandon Bird can be loosely summarized as "one thing from pop culture intersecting with another, completely unrelated, thing from pop culture." Thus a painting depicting a doleful Sam Waterston playing with Transformers, or a drawing of a Care Bear with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans director Werner Herzog as its tummy symbol.
Yes, pop-culture mash-ups may not exactly be novel at this point — they're everywhere from Tumblr and to unlicensed T-shirts — but it takes a special kind of thinker to insert Steven Seagal onto the cover of X-Men #4. And that's showcased in Brandon Bird's Astonishing World of Art, a celebration of the artist's sensibilities in the guise of an old-school coloring book (keeping with the motif, it's mostly black and white). Out now from Chronicle Books, there are stickers, postcards, full-color reproductions of Bird's paintings and a couple of ridiculously complex paint-by-number pages. Bird's knack for likenesses help sell the jokes — a painting of Christopher Walken building Optimus Prime works much better when it's rendered as realistically as possible.
As Bird fans have come to expect, there's also a lot of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit material, including valentines featuring Ice-T and the gang. The Dick Wolf franchise has long been a source of inspiration for the artist, who curated a Law & Order-inspired exhibition back in 2010.
Although prolific crime author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard didn't have a direct connection to comic books, it's clear from the number of tweets about his death today at age 87 that he influenced a number of comics writers. Of course, labeling Leonard a "crime author" undoubtedly does him a disservice, as he wasn't restricted by genre; his earliest works were Westerns, like his 1952 short story "Three-Ten to Yuma," which has been adapted twice for the big screen.
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Entertainment Weekly has the final-cover reveal for The Snacking Dead: A Parody in a Cookbook, due on shelves Oct. 29 from Crown Publishing's Clarkson Potter imprint. Written by "D.B. Walker," the 160-page book features recipes and photographs for 50 dishes, ranging from Guac and Load Guacamole to Sticky Ribs to Cold-Blooded Ice Cream Sandwiches. According to EW, it also offers tips, The Snacking Dead also offers suggestions for "cooking in tricky and direful situations," as well as a zombie story.
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At a special event held today at The Scholastic Store in New York City, the publisher premiered cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi's new cover for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster fantasy series.
Announced in February, the new covers by the acclaimed creator of Copper, Daisy Kutter and Amulet were commissioned to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the U.S. release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The complete series of new trade paperbacks will be available Aug. 27, along with a new boxed set featuring Kibuishi's renditions of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. You can see that artwork below.
However, that's not the end of the reveals, as new back covers will debut at the rate of one a day from Aug 1. to Aug. 7.
Scholastic unveiled the new cover by cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi for the sixth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, The Half-Blood Prince, during a party held last night at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
Announced in February, the new covers by the acclaimed creator of Copper, Daisy Kutter and Amulet were commissioned to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the U.S. debut of Rowling's beloved fantasy series. The art for the seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will premiere July 31 at a birthday party for the books.
The new editions will be available beginning Aug. 27, with a boxed set scheduled for release in September.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the world's greatest superhero, Andrews McMeel Publishing The Superman Files, a hardcover tome described as "a complete, in-depth life story of the Man of Steel." The 312-page book will arrive Nov. 5.
Compiled in the 31st century by Brainiac 5, better known as author Matthew K. Manning (DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle, The Batman Vault), the book outlines Superman's history, offering details about friends like Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White as well as facts about such enemies as Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Doomsday and Bizarro.
Among the features: secrets of the daily life of Clark Kent; Daily Planet newspaper articles and eyewitness accounts of Superman's exploits; childhood mementos and journal entries; top-secret data known only to Superman; favorite destinations in Metropolis; surviving artifacts from Krypton; schematics for the Fortress of Solitude and technology used by Superman; files from Stryker Island Prison; and hundreds of images of Superman's enemies and allies.
You can see a preview below. The Superman Files retails for $75.
Just hours after launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund a companion "field guide" to Atomic Robo, creators Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener have already rocketed past their $7,500 pledge goal — by more than $16,000. The project was fully funded within two hours.
Tesladyne Field Guide isn't a comic book, however: It's a handbook for employees of the fictional Tesladyne Industries, founded by Atomic Robo, that tackles such topics as "How To Deal With Errant Dinosaurs," "So You've Got An Evil Twin" and "Coping With Alternate Realities."
While the book is certainly incentive enough for many Atomic Robo fans to donate, some of the pledge rewards may be a big draw. "We […] figured if we were doing a Kickstarter, then we should throw in some crazy tiers and do stuff we would never do if we were just opening an online store," Clevinger writes on the Kickstarter page. "So, we're making campaign exclusive polos and lab coats and other goodies that we will likely NEVER MAKE outside the Kickstarter."
The lower tiers feature prints, buttons, T-shirts and the like, but it's when you get to the $250 level that things start to get fun: the "Junior Action Scientist Kit," with lab coat and a Tesladyne polo shirt; the "Junior Doctor Dinosaur Kit," with a lab coat ("slightly ruined), "Genuine Hollow Earth Crystals"; and so on (the rewards for the $500 tier and one of the $250 tiers are already gone). Clevinger also quickly added stretch goals, which the campaign has already surpassed.
"We're choosing to err on the side of caution with regard to calling out our goals at this point," Clevinger writes. "We'd rather not say or suggest or imply what we're planning until we're 100% certain we can make it a reality. 'Cause otherwise we're just jerkin' your chains."
The Kickstarter campaign ends Aug. 9.
Scholastic is doing a slow rollout of Kazu Kibuishi's new covers for the Harry Potter novels, and today at LeakyCon, a fan convention in Portland, Oregon, Arthur A. Levine Books unveiled the third one, The Prisoner of Azkaban. Scholastic will release a boxed set of all seven Harry Potter books on Aug. 27, just shy of the 15th anniversary of the debut of the first volume, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Kibuishi, the creator of Copper and Amulet and the moving force behind the Flight anthologies, will be creating new covers for all seven of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, each one revolving around a crucial moment in the story.
Author and comic writer Brad Meltzer is working on a children's book series, Ordinary People Change the World, which is being published under Penguin's Dial Books for Young Readers imprint. The first book, I Am Amelia Earhart, which will be illustrated by Chris Eliopoulos, is due out next year.
But before the book can go to press, it's going to need a cover, and Meltzer has taken to his blog to ask the internet to help pick the cover. He's posted two options illustrated by Eliopoulos, so head over there to cast your vote.


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That's the spin on CBS' new sort-of crime procedural "Vegas," which pits Dennis Quaid's cranky rancher Ralph Lamb against Lowell native Michael Chiklis' mobster Vincent Savino in 1960.
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White Sox Place Jose Abreu On 15-Day DL
The White Sox have announced that the team has officially placed 1B Jose Abreu on the 15-day disabled list:
#WhiteSox reinstate @AdamSpankyEaton; place Jose Abreu on the 15-day DL w/ posterior tibia tendonitis in left ankle: http://t.co/MTLtVFMSgS
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 18, 2014
Abreu, 27, is hitting .260 (45-173) with 15 home runs, 41 RBI and 29 runs scored over 44 games in his first season with Chicago.
He ranks among the major-league leaders in home runs (1st), extra-base hits (T1st, 27), at-bats per home run (2nd, 11.53), RBI's (2nd), total bases (T3rd, 103) and slugging percentage (5th, .595).
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Pressel has Solheim Cup on her mind
The Old Course is a mystery even to those who have played it dozens of times. With dunes and rolling terrain and bunkers where you least expect them, a familiar line from caddies at St. Andrews after a tee shot is, "That should be fine unless it's in the bunker." With few exceptions, the landing area is not clear from the tee box.
A media official tried to help her out in describing the sixth hole by telling Park No. 6 was the hole with the blind tee shot.
"All the drives are blind on the front nine," she said with a laugh.
Park also struggled with the accent of one Scottish reporter who asked her if she felt the crowd behind her.
"The crows?" she asked.
Fair question. There are plenty of those, too.
THE LOCAL GIRL: Catriona Matthew received hearty applause when she was introduced on the first tee, and for good reason. Matthew, a former Women's British Open champion, is one of only two players in the field from Scotland.
Imagine how the gallery would have felt to know that other player in the group — Morgan Pressel — graduated from St. Andrews.
Just not the St. Andrews down the street.
Pressel graduated from St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Fla., and she plays out of St. Andrews Country Club.
"I cracked myself up last week when I posted a photo of a little tee marker at home and said, 'What's all the fuss about St. Andrews? I'm already here,'" she said. "I feel right at home. It's almost as warm today, too, which was nice."
MEMORIES: Lorena Ochoa, who won the first Women's British Open held at St. Andrews in 2007, is retired.
That would make it a toss-up between Catriona Matthew and Stacy Lewis as the players with the most positive memories of the Old Course. Matthew won a couple of amateur girl trophies at the home of golf.
Lewis, meanwhile, played St. Andrews for her last event as an amateur. She was on the Curtis Cup team in 2008 and won all five of her matches.
"I played really good that week, and it was so much fun," Lewis said. "Our team rooms were right behind the first tee box, right in the clubhouse. They kind of let us roam the place. They showed us all around. It was so cool. I had a local caddie that week and I told him, 'I want to know all the stories.' So he told me all the stories. I love the history of this place."


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Originally posted by skeaser
Wish i had that much time to play, GW2 will be to much time intensive to be able to play anything else, probably wouldnt play anything else either way.
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Joined: 8/18/07
pretty much bored very fast.. altho didn't make it that far..
i don't think this game will have a huge success
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Joined: 2/24/12
There are to many negatives to be honest.
London is a lifeless city for the most part. The only part that seemed to have any life to it was a small market corner. The rest had static npc. What was up with all the parked cars and not being able to drive one.
Cutscenes were one sided conversations. I loathed the interactive movie in ME3 and this was even worse due to the lack of interaction.
Kingsmouth felt unnatural. a small cordoned off Sheriff's Office with a few people holding off hordes of zombies. Sorry they should have been overrun after the 5th wave. It should have been a block wide with houses as protection. Even worse with the few lone people who seem to be able to survive regardless of the many mobs around.
They say the game is levelless. I say bullshit. They have simply hidden the numbers, but you still have to level your character to get stronger. Just look at quest difficulty. The fact that you get XP for them. Mobs having different colors.
Mob tagging just annoyed me. I played a melee character and I had mobs I was going for hit by ranged just before I reached them. Even from people whom I helped a minute before so they wouldn't be killed.
Only 5 quests is not enough in my opinion. Having to either abandon a quest or come back another time is nothing but a waste of time. A way to obtain discovered quests apart from having to go all the way back would have been much better. Or simply increase the amount of quests you can take.
Animations have been discussed to death already. Just want to say jumping is extremely crap animated. Anyone that thinks animations will get an overhaul before launch are quite naive. They already have their schedule worked out for launch so anything discovered now will not get a lot of attention.
Not going to bother to grade it.
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Joined: 2/24/09
Originally posted by fenistil
I am not sure, but I think the whole beta has been played on servers in the US. I haven't seen basically no complaints about lagg, so it does seem to be working out well.
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Joined: 9/27/10
Originally posted by Snoepie
And you base that on what..if you didnt play that far into game...how can you possibly know..i mean if its not for you so be it..but you cannot possibly know if this will be successful or not.neither can i for that matter..about 300-500k i think is what they are aiming for..i maybe wrong but we'll see.
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Joined: 5/14/07
I believe in life before death... So dont forget to enjoy it while you still can.
I agree with most of the arguments presented overhere, thats why the game deserves a sollid 7 from my part. But i would never pay a subscription and €50 for a box for anything less then a sparkling 8.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
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Joined: 9/27/04
C64 Cracked Warez Intros FTW
I gave it a 7 and looking to still buy it when it comes out.
As I stated, if I can get a solid 2 to 3 months in 1 game, it was well worth it. Mind you that I am a console gamer as well, so I am use to the ridiculous prices when a new title is released and most of my ps3 and 360 games are just collecting dust now.
One thing I like about mmo's is the fact of the matter that things can change daily, monthly and yearly, I don't have that option in my console game unless they have decent DLC thats worth it.
TSW brings a new type of creepy atmosphere to mmo gaming instead the of the same bright colored fantasy games we got now.
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Originally posted by skeaser
Agreed. I gave it a score of 8, launch score will be a 9 while GW2 will get a 10 at launch from me. Both games hit every spot I am looking for in an MMO, but no sub fee puts GW2 over the top hehe, BUT it allows me to enjoy both TSW and GW2 at the same time. Of course, I plan to get the lifetime sub so that makes it null, the sub fee...anyway I'm rambling a bit. I just love these 2 games, but yeah this beta completely took me by surprise at how good this game is, even with the pre launch bugs still in place(not many at all and mostly due to lack of optimization yet).
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Originally posted by Blackbrrd
yeah every thing was perfect =D And if u want to compare TSW with Gw2 like people always do , TSW beta was amazing
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Originally posted by kevjards
300-500k ? hmm i dunno. Maybe 100k. Its really weak game... that most players will quit after first month. I think that good reviews are from people that already preordered or are funcom fans.
On most sites there more "this is crap game" than its "ok game". It was much better in swtor and they lost more than 400k in few months.
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Joined: 10/14/06
From me it's 7/10. I actually think that from the gameplay perspective it's not a very good game. But I love the setting, story, cutscenes and the whole adventure game feel that I'm willing to "forget" about cons. If there weren't GW2 I would probably buy it but I can't play more than 1 mmo. Maybe I will pick it up for 1 month until gW2's release. I really don't know yet. After TERA's beta i felt the same. I loved combat/graphics but didn't like the rest. in the end didn't buy it. With TSW I love parts of the game but don't like the rest.
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Joined: 3/03/09
I just want to say thank you guys for hating the game cause I managed to buy TSW on ebay by bid for $10. (Digital download)
I'll have something to play and enjoy while you guys jump on the next game to hate :)
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Joined: 5/13/12
I would give it a 7/10. After playing AoC from beta I was expecting much worse that what I experienced. Great unique setting, interesting quests, interesting skill system and absorbing story. It is refreshing after the same WoW/Rift/SWTOR type of questing I have been used to.
Drawbacks were bad animations (have heard the current ones are place holders), average graphics (was running in dx9 instead of dx11) and the combat had a 'clunky' feel to it.
Hoping they can improve the gfx/animations and combat after launch over the next few months and I would consider playing it as well as Guild Wars 2.
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Joined: 7/23/03
There were some good aspects. The setting for example won me over and I thought the graphics were pretty decent overall, especially the environments (not so much on the PC models, not bad, but not that good). The music was nice, although a tiny bit repetative.
While the setting became appealing to me, it also felt like they would have benefitted greatly from some subtelty. When 'weird' is in your face constantly it soon becomes the norm, which doesn't have quite the same impact in my opinion.
The lack of closure with most side missions sort of lent to the impression that they may have gone with weird for the sake of weird as well. They set up these odd scenarios for the player to work through, however I never felt I got to the bottom of anything or unravelled anything about the overall state of the world. It felt like they set up all these little mysteries to solve, but there was never an answer, never any explanation. Just 'Yep, here's some weird stuff, now phone it in for your reward'.
The main story line at least did feel like it was building to something, and I found it to be pretty interesting. I got the impression they were laying the ground work for something, but for the most part, the mysteries of The Secret World so far exist only in cutscenes, my day to day life is apparently killing zombies in various locations.
People keep mentioning that it forced the player to think and that the game doesn't hold your hand, however, I followed the storyline as far as we could in beta and did a crap ton of hidden and out of the way sidequests, and I never had to think and never felt they let go of my hand. The in game browser is a fun idea, but overall we were never stumped on what to do or where to go.
There were giant arrows showing me exactlly where to go and how far my destination was. In the tasks that didn't have waypoints, they employed other overt cues (following the ravens and follow the trail of traps for example). Add in the fact that I was invincible (perhaps splitting 50% healing 50% damage is just the most powerful build?) and it makes what could have been an exciting dangerous setting safe and run of the mill. While the mobs telegraph their special attacks, which across the board were completely avoidable, I found that I didn't have to, as standing there tanking things was just faster overall and not very dangerous. I'm sure at later levels that's not the case, but they really could afford to introduce some danger early on.
On Friday we'd started with 4 of us, which was a problem. Many tasks required us to click some objective, then rather than it counting for the whole group, we had to wait a minute for it to reset, click it again, wait for it to reset, click it again...etc. That's a design choice that has no redeeming qualities. By saturday I was alone as the others had seen enough, and I still found everything soloable. I think a lot of people are spreading some misinformation regarding TSW, as what they claim just is not evident in the actual game.
This sounds like a lot of negatives, and I haven't even mentioned combat or the skill system yet (which weren't quite as good as I'd hoped), but over all I liked the game more than I expected to. I just think they'd do the setting justice by making use of less overt visual cues and dialing back the mish-mash of weird crap in every single direction at all times. Throw in some basis for comparison, let us see a bit of normal to give weight to the strange. Same with the swearing, they really wanted us to notice they used swearing. Still, I find it loses it's impact when it's shoe-horned in at every opportunity (one example, scribbled on a page of notes is one entry 'Fu%$*£" tunnels!' Come on, who writes that?). Yeah, use it where it can add some weight to the situation, but throwing it around every step of the way diminishes it's impact.
So, while there weren't any aspects that made me say 'Wow' or feel overly impressed, the combat wasn't spectacular, the skill system not all that I'd hoped, I still found myself disappointed when I'd finished the content available. I kind of wanted to see what came next. I'm sure there may have been a few bits I could hunt for, but I think I get the idea.
I didn't see anything that made me feel I wanted to run out and buy the game, but I think I'll likely check it out again somewhere down the line for sure.
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Joined: 5/02/12
Originally posted by bloodaxes
Cheers! :) Should have waited with my pre-purchase had I known that lemmings first buy the game, realize in the first beta they don't like it and then sell it for a tenner. Think I'll avoid mmorpg.com forums when much over-hyped GW2 comes out because I predict tons of poison floating around here.
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Joined: 8/12/11
We all breathe and we all die.
Originally posted by PieRad
Yay he donated his kidney!!!!!
Don't worry though I donated both of my kidneys and heart so I took a bigger risk or more so an stupid one.
On topic:
TSW was cool, umm good game, least a few things rather than 1 gimmick was very refreshing.
They need to work on the life but I am assuming cutscene heavy MMOs have to sacrifice In-Game things because for example give this game life and what not, when it's time for a cutscene what's going on in game can be completely different there for breaking immersion. Gotta keep everything like a scene which personally I think that should stay in single player games.
Story is a lot better than SWTOR in my honest opinion.
I'm going to cancel my pre-order though and wait on it, see how Funcom does things, because the cons for [me] outweigh the pros.
Rated it a 7 potential 9 depending on how Funcom does things.
I might get banned for this. - Rizel Star.
I'm not afraid to tell trolls what they [need] to hear, even if that means for me to have an forced absence afterwards.
P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
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Originally posted by Valkaern
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Joined: 5/02/12
I like Solitaire ok... that is, unless I got someone to play with.
I'm feeling good this morning, I rated it a 9, would have played more if it wasn't just a beta. Haven't made a decision if I'll play it later down the road, I really like it though, felt like a spy game. The environment and immerson is close to perfect for me.
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Joined: 11/14/08
Originally posted by RizelStar
Lol, can't believe you remember that.. Especially since the thread got canned by mmorpg.
Made for some good entertainment :)
But ye, I will be playing gw2, mostly for the pvp, and after trying TSW, getting my PvE fix in the secret world.
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Joined: 12/29/03
Whatever you do, do NOT speak ill of Asheron's Call 2...
I give my beta experience two thumbs up, maybe three if I was a mutant...
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!


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Patrick Henry was one of the leading figures of American Revolution and a prominent political founder who saw the formation of initial Independent United States. Henry is known for being the most prominent revolutionary leader who raised his voice against the government corruption and atrocities against people of America. Patrick went on to liberate his homeland, Virginia and became the first and sixth Governor of Virginia in the new era of the post-colonial. Being an active promoter of Republican thoughts which included new age thoughts on people's sovereignty, liberty and American civic thought Henry was a founding father of the revolution and independence of America. Henry will always be remembered for his popular speech where he urged people with his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" Patrick's journey in educating people and making them rise against their endangered rights is noteworthy. Henry is also known for his leading role in moving the anti-federalists in Virginia to oppose the United States Constitution which as Henry felt, went against the freedoms of individuals and states' rights.
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With Henry's leading role committees were set up by each colony which made way for the formation of the First Continental Congress and Henry was elected to this Congress
Sarah died without being given a proper funeral service or a Christian burial because she was proclaimed as "possessed by the devil"
On 23 March Henry made his very famous speech in the House of Burgesses which was held in Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia
Henry was appointed as the colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment in August
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Sydney College was opened for classes on 10 November.
On 25 October Henry got married to his second wife Dorothea Dandridge
Henry made major contribution in achieving passage for Hampden-Sydney College's Charter
Henry got elected again as the governor of Virginia
He refused to attend the Constitutional Convention as he felt that there were still people who supported the British monarchy
Henry represented the Virginia convention and became a part of the U. S. Constitution's ratification. Henry opposed voted against ratification
Henry was elected to become the elector of the Campbell District
s – By late 1790s Henry started supporting Federalist policies of Washington and Adam
American President George Washington invited Henry to take up the post of Secretary of State which was rejected by Henry
Henry was elected by John Adams as a special emissary to France but Henry's health failure stalled the process
Henry died on 6 June after suffering from stomach cancer
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