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id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy
arcticstoat sends a link to an interview with the CEO of id Software, Todd Hollenshead, in which he suggests that hardware manufacturers count on piracy to help drive profits, rather than doing something to prevent it. Quoting:
"...I think that there's been this dirty little secret among hardware manufacturers, which is that the perception of free content — even if you're supposed to pay for it on PCs — is some sort hidden benefit that you get when you buy a PC, like a right to download music for free or a right to download pirated movies and games. ...And I think that just based on their actions...what they say is one thing, but what they do is another. When it comes into debates about whether peer-to-peer file-sharing networks that by-and-large have the vast majority, I'm talking 99 per cent of the content is illicitly trading copyrighted property, they'll come out on the side of the 1 per cent of the user doing it for legitimate benefit."
This issue is about ownership. Does your argument imply that I can come live in your house in 3-5 years and it is public domain? Hell, we're all coming over!
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
What's next? We keep paying doctors every few years for prior services rendered?
If you use a chiropractor, you are doing that now :)
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Not only that but IP industry is the horse and buggy industry of the 21st century, why exactly do these people deserve our protection? Should we have protected the horse and buggy industry from going obsolete?
These people cannot stand their industries getting hit because they love the money, no one cried when manual labor was devalued to near nothing, why should we cry for these people? Supply and demand is harsh and that's why it works.
In any other area if we were capable of replicating matter and energy for food so entire industries would collapse over night, they would be seen as horrible people from trying to stop such technology from being used by people.
Why exactly is this any different? Again: Why should we protect the horse and buggy industry, why do they deserve favoritism when so many other people do not get such things? (i.e. everyone who is or has to work for low wages because of supply and demand).
Supply and demand is only obeyed inconsistently by these people, seems rather contradictory to me.
(There are also other issues, such as the software's creator issuing patches, etc., which is continuing work on the once-bought product that he's generally not paid for.)
You are a god damn shit-face fecal fucker. Seriously, how fucking retarded are you? Patches only enhance the damn product, and after some more patches the product looks like a more viable source than the alternative, well, that can generate more sales!
But no, you keep spouting off your fucking stupid bullshit. Go and play in traffic, you waste of sperm.
Damn... now where is that (-1, Retarded) mod option...
Preview. Do you use it, nigger?
I have been saying, for a while now, that Microsoft should pull all business and development out of EU countries. They'd still have the presense with their third party sales and not have the hassles of having to deal with the EU's idea of seeing them as a cash cow.
Having said that... I suspect that if Microsoft pulled Office out of the Mac environment the niche would be filled immediately by another product. People buy a Mac for a reason and, as near as I can tell, Office ain't it.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."