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Further to the other answers: the obvious answer is that the layout of the page (large type, clear, easy to read) and the attractive product photography (to get inspired by) are a big parts of the value proposition of a cookbook, which is why they are all large, full colour books. And those parts are thoroughly covered by copyright.

You can't copyright a recipe, but recipe books still exist.

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Why are you using the definite article here? There's more than one newsgroup on Usenet.

Why are you using the definite article here? There's more than one newsgroup on Usenet.

I'm not sure that's true. You only have to go half a dozen books down the bestseller lists in Amazon's cookbook section before you see books that aren't written by a famous chef or similar star. For example: "The Skinny Slow Cooker Recipe Book: Delicious Recipes Under 300, 400 And 500 Calories" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BCNPY8M/ ... RwbS388FWH

alt.binary.pirateypirateypirate and alt.look.at.me.i.am.a.fish

But I'd suggest that the sales of that book have little to do with the nice pictures or page layout.

alt.fan.richard-gaywood, which shockingly enough is full of gay porn spam.

And I've spent £500 on Modernist Cuisine because it's PORN PORN PORN.

I massively disagree. I think the layout, the pictures, the text used in the method, and the text used in the descriptions are vitally important - particularly so in any book that doesn't have automatic 'famous chef' sales attached.

And I've spent £500 on Modernist Cuisine because it's PORN PORN PORN.

And of course contains tons of explanatory text, all of which is totally covered under copyright

I massively disagree. I think the layout, the pictures, the text used in the method, and the text used in the descriptions are vitally important - particularly so in any book that doesn't have automatic 'famous chef' sales attached.

And I've spent £500 on Modernist Cuisine because it's PORN PORN PORN.

And of course contains tons of explanatory text, all of which is totally covered under copyright

I massively disagree. I think the layout, the pictures, the text used in the method, and the text used in the descriptions are vitally important - particularly so in any book that doesn't have automatic 'famous chef' sales attached.

No, I think they're sheeple that are attempting a diet that they'll stick to for two weeks before going back to buying books about cakes by Nigella.

You think people are buying a book called "The Skinny Slow Cooker Recipe Book: Delicious Recipes Under 300, 400 And 500 Calories" because of the pictures, rather than because they were looking for low calorie slow cooker recipes?!

Also, would I be correct in thinking that your £500 cookbook extravaganza is in a storage shed somewhere?

Don't need much space to store £500 worth of those books!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modernist-Cuisi ... st+cuisine

They're more of a reference library and interesting collection rather than cookbooks

I have a copy of Blackstone's Criminal Practice somewhere which is much the same. But with more murder. I love reference books.

Less murder than the typical cookbook, I'd wager. Those chickens and cows don't commit suicide in slaughterhouses.

I've been hearing that Steam now have a friends and family feature where you can share your entire library with 'X' people (I don't know the exact details). That's pretty freakin' awesome.

He doesn't want to share his entire library. What if he wants to play Pure while I want to play Split/Second? It simply doesn't let you do that.

And it doesn't work for every game anyway.

Hang on…..3DM Now Suggest They’ve Cracked Denuvo

With the video games market excited at the prospect of 3DM taking a year-long break, the Chinese cracking group has just thrown a wrench in the works. According to 3DM's leader, speculation that her team can't beat Denuvo has proven too much and they now appear determined to publish a solution, albeit in unorthodox fashion.

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of video games players around the world obtain their fix from pirate sources. It’s been that way for more than 30 years, only the numbers have grown over time.

However, in the ‘old days’ people could do most of their copying at home, with a couple of cassette decks or software to shift data between 5.25″ floppy disks. But times have changed and although piracy still exists, people now largely rely on a tiny number of so-called ‘cracking’ experts to break copy protection for them.

One of those groups is Chinese outfit 3DM who in recent years have delighted pirate gamers with free copies of some of the world’s greatest titles. Technology companies have always done their best to thwart groups like 3DM and earlier this year came the most promising news to date.

Out of the blue, 3DM announced that the latest iteration of the infamous Denuvo anti-tamper technology had proven so resistant that in a couple of years PC games piracy might become non-existent.

Then, just a couple of weeks later, 3DM put the icing on the cake when they announced that in order to let the official games market breathe, they would be taking a year off from cracking games.

With games producers everywhere super excited at the prospect of a market free from the nuisance of 3DM, optimism of a boosted-revenue future was high. However, while it seems 3DM can deliver surprise gifts with one hand, apparently they can just as easily take them away with the other.

According to a new announcement by the group’s almost rock-star-famous leader, 3DM have decided they are not quite done. Apparently, growing speculation that the group aren’t up to the job of cracking Denuvo has provided them with new inspiration to prove the masses wrong.

“3DM will soon announce that we have a solution to the latest Denuvo encryption used on games including ‘FIFA 16’, ‘Just Cause 3’, and ‘Tomb Raider: The Rise’,” 3DM leader Bird Sister just announced.

“We [made this announcement] because a lot of players believe we have abandoned cracking due to technical problems, but we will prove it is not the case,” Bird Sister continues.

“We have not yet been stumped [by protection measures].”

Although this announcement flies in the face of some of 3DM’s earlier comments, the news will be received with disappointment by games developers and publishers, not to mention the team at Denuvo. 3DM had been leading the charge on Denuvo-protected titles so a break could’ve given valuable breathing space.

But that said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and until pirates have tasted the joys of a fully cracked Just Cause 3, their appetites will remain in full force. In other words they’ll believe this game has been cracked when they actually play it at home – thus far there is no sign of a release.

Interestingly, should cracked copies eventually arrive at the hands of 3DM, the group won’t be taking the credit. A somewhat counter-productive comment by Bird Sister indicates that 3DM will not take the usual path on release since they don’t want to attract too much attention.

“Of course, this will not be a high-profile or official 3DM release,” she concludes.

And galleons.

Another general news story about Denuvo and piracy

http://kotaku.com/the-anti-piracy-tech- ... 1759518600

That article talks about how it specifically works by piggy-backing on the initial online activation required by Steam et al. So presumably that means it doesn't and can't work for games that have been bought on disc and don't require activation? That seems like a loophole (buy disc based game, crack and distribute as normal) but I've no idea if you can even buy AAA games these days that don't require Steam etc for the activation.

[*] A fairly common practise is to back up your installed Steam folder when doing a reinstall or moving to a new machine and then just copying it all back afterwards, rather than having to potentially download GBs of data all over again. If Denuvo peppers machine specific codes throughout the game files at initial activation does that mean games copied from one machine to another in this way will be useless?

[*] With my paranoid hat on (though some might say 'pragmatic' given how little trust the games industry has earned from us over the years)

My paranoid hat point is that there is no option for archiving and replaying these games , there are games that are 'lost' now because there was only a limited number of them and those eventually degraded and are no longer workable but there are also so many games that only still exist now due to piracy and people archiving / keeping these old copies

If piracy was not a thing i'm willing to bet a large number of 'in our lifetime' games would no longer exist in any playable state and theres no reason to believe at some point in the future we'll hit this problem

Now I want to play Mario Kart Double Dash and Eternal Darkness. Damnit, Bamba!

Selfishly I can't bring myself to really give a shit about this aspect. I can count on zero hands the number of times I've wanted to go back and play, I dunno, a Gamecube game in recent memory and I doubt I'll feel any different about anything I'm playing right now either. There's always new stuff to play; ever forward!