I think it was a grandstand unit, sounds liek the first console I had, except i had a slightly later version with a light gun, the light gun game was a white square bouncing around the screen against a black background. You could cheat by turning up the TV's brightness and score a hit anywhere on the screen.
So if there is no copyright protection and you write a book, sign a contract with a publisher and actually start to make some money because your book is successfull what is to stop another publisher also printing and selling your work without paying you a penny, without copyright the second publishers book can even use the same cover art.
In fact how would you go about getting a book published? You need to negotiate a contract before the publisher even sees a draft copy of the book, so you need a lawyer to help out with that as well, otherwise what is to stop the publishing company simply stealing your idea.
Is every author to become there own distributor?, how does a single author compete with a publishing house who have a lower cost per unit to distribute his/her works and now no longer has to pay the author for their work?
I agree that DRM is an appaling bad idea and most often doesn't work but copyright is also (or was) intended to protect the author of a creative work from large corperations not just to protect the corperations profits.
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I think it was a grandstand unit, sounds liek the first console I had, except i had a slightly later version with a light gun, the light gun game was a white square bouncing around the screen against a black background. You could cheat by turning up the TV's brightness and score a hit anywhere on the screen.
So if there is no copyright protection and you write a book, sign a contract with a publisher and actually start to make some money because your book is successfull what is to stop another publisher also printing and selling your work without paying you a penny, without copyright the second publishers book can even use the same cover art. In fact how would you go about getting a book published? You need to negotiate a contract before the publisher even sees a draft copy of the book, so you need a lawyer to help out with that as well, otherwise what is to stop the publishing company simply stealing your idea. Is every author to become there own distributor?, how does a single author compete with a publishing house who have a lower cost per unit to distribute his/her works and now no longer has to pay the author for their work? I agree that DRM is an appaling bad idea and most often doesn't work but copyright is also (or was) intended to protect the author of a creative work from large corperations not just to protect the corperations profits.
and after you spend more on the console how about another £100 ($180) on an extra controller + numbchuck, I'll be waiting a while before buying as I'd want at least one extra controller. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Controller/dp /B000IMFNRU/sr=8-41/qid=1158583650/ref=sr_1_41/026 -4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Nunchuck-Cont roller-add-/dp/B000IMDMQE/sr=8-46/qid=1158582995/r ef=sr_1_46/026-4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway