On 19/02/2014 01:11, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
I hope that by novel he meant deceit and wasteful. Pure waste to be mining like that. If they had at least used a scrypt coin, that'd be a start.
Information is too scarce to see if they managed GPU mining somehow. Although that'd produce it's own set of problems (see also what happened after blizzard had the starcraft menu not-vsynced).
I don't see why the law would have to be involved though. What motivation is given for their research? Very hard to understand. Maybe it can be phrased as "stealing computer power"?
The motivation could be "make it possible for website authors to make a living without Google Adwords & other stupid ads" and that rocks, IMHO. Everything is wasteful you know. Buying things is mostly a waste of ressources. But at least let me decide what kind of waste I want to produce! Or just go the Zerzan way but then start by throwing away your computer and blowing up the nearest electricity poles. @cryptomars