Could this be a source of income for indie game developers? While users play the (free/cheap/torrented) game, the users graphics card spends its spare cycles on mining for the game developers. No obnoxious ads, no paying $60 for a game you only play a few times.
yesterday's discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636233" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636233</a><p>EDIT: wow has wired always been this bad? 16 trackers/ads according to ghostery, 20 according to disconnect
This is ridiculous, it wasn't an employee it was the CEO, who dropped hints they were doing it all through April. Shouldn't expect better from Wired I guess.<p>This being a entrepreneur tech site, it looks like there's a market for non-terrible companies providing video game-related software and services to niche multiplayer communities.
Instead of donating to charity, they should have given it to the gamers who had their computers illegally used. They do not realize the criminal and civil actions that can arise from this.