What’s more, the flaws inherent in the new system render it remarkably easy to bypass. While this system is far more logical than older methods that led to clogged courts over petty violation claims (mainly for uploading, not downloading), it’s still essentially a bandage over the gaping wound of the entertainment industry’s ever-failing business and distribution model. Beyond that, these measures treat the use of BitTorrent as an expressly unscrupulous activity, which is no surprise considering Hollywood’s historical incredulity at tales of legitimate use and the ineffectuality of “piracy” on sales-even as individual artists and celebrities embrace the program’s distribution efficiency. The real problem here is that the RIAA, MPAA and major ISPs are serving as officer, judge and jury with essentially no checks and balances until you decide to pay $35 for a purportedly independent review board to look over your case (you get the money back if you win). The six-strike “graduated response” program focuses primarily on copyrighted content on BitTorrent, a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing program that allows decentralized downloading by having users snag files from a number of sources or “seeds” across the web. ISPs onboard for the multi-million dollar plan include Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision, Verizon and, of course, Comcast, which connects one-fifth of wired homes. Starting July 1st, major American Internet service providers will become copyright cops for the MPAA and RIAA in what supporters call one of the most promising anti-piracy efforts in history. Recommended, but check out the much better sequel Virtua Cop 2 for a longer and more rewarding shooting gallery.If you can’t get the Feds to do it, you’d better do it yourself. Some nice touches, despite the game's brevity: you receive bonus points if you can shoot the target's weapon out of his hand, sparing his life ("Justice Shots"), and there is a practice mode that lets you practice - it even includes the innocents so that you can practice avoiding them.Īll in all, a fun game and a reasonable replica of the arcade hit, although it is rather short, and too easy if you play with a mouse. Any of the three stages can be selected from the opening menu, although the increasing difficulty level only makes sense if you play them in order. There is a boss at the end of each stage that must be defeated before you can move on. At the same time, you must avoid shooting any innocent bystanders.
Your objective in this 3D shooting gallery is simple: as a cop, move through various areas of a city, eliminating any criminals that get in your way.
Virtua Cop is a decent PC conversion of a hit arcade game of the same name by SEGA.
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