Wasn't there an artist recently that sold his music for whatever you wanted to pay including free? If I remember correctly it went rather well.
Anyhow I didn't say that I wanted to choose my own price, I said that if it seems worthwhile I'll download it and if it's good I'll buy it after I've tried it.
When it comes to Games, which is one of the things I'm pirating the most, I've seen some companies take a rather genius stand to this. They won't put any anti piracy measures on the game but in order to download patches and extra content or play online you need a valid CDkey.
This way people can easily try it out and if they like it they can purchase the game and get all the extra content and online experience.
I think more companies should embrace this position that piracy isn't necessarily bad and that in order to get customers you should offer something extra.
It's not either the VG* is good therefore you buy or the VG is bad therefor you don't.
It's more like is the VG worth the money they want for it? together with the question, Do I want it?
If the answer to both are Yes then you buy it. If the first is No and the second is Yes then you pirate it, if the answer to both are no then you ignore it.
In a world when you can get any VG for free if you want to, why would you not get the things you want to have? Some kind of antiquated morality?
I buy things when I think the creator deserves my support because the product is outstanding, but before I buy it I want to know if it's good or not, therefore I'll most likely pirate it beforehand,then buy it later if I believe it's worth my hard earned money.
Trailers and Demos be damned, I prefer to test the whole product.
Yes you could sue them and the tutorial most likely has a text where they explicitly allow you to use their code, if they don't you're actually not allowed to use it.
I'll live happily with my illegal ad-free copy thank you very much. I bet someone will hack the game to disable the ads.
One thing about the information they gather though, In some countries like mine(Sweden) there are some very strict privacy laws that prevents people from gathering the kind of data they plan to gather. I wonder what they'll plan to do about that, I don't think I ever saw any adds in BF2142, might be because of that.
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For starters it's Illegal under the DMCA to decrypt copyrighted material :P
You missed the part where their mortgage was on the line. There is a real exchange rate between linden dollars and real ones.
Wasn't there an artist recently that sold his music for whatever you wanted to pay including free? If I remember correctly it went rather well.
Anyhow I didn't say that I wanted to choose my own price, I said that if it seems worthwhile I'll download it and if it's good I'll buy it after I've tried it.
When it comes to Games, which is one of the things I'm pirating the most, I've seen some companies take a rather genius stand to this. They won't put any anti piracy measures on the game but in order to download patches and extra content or play online you need a valid CDkey.
This way people can easily try it out and if they like it they can purchase the game and get all the extra content and online experience.
I think more companies should embrace this position that piracy isn't necessarily bad and that in order to get customers you should offer something extra.
It's not that simple.
It's not either the VG* is good therefore you buy or the VG is bad therefor you don't.
It's more like is the VG worth the money they want for it? together with the question, Do I want it?
If the answer to both are Yes then you buy it. If the first is No and the second is Yes then you pirate it, if the answer to both are no then you ignore it.
In a world when you can get any VG for free if you want to, why would you not get the things you want to have? Some kind of antiquated morality?
I buy things when I think the creator deserves my support because the product is outstanding, but before I buy it I want to know if it's good or not, therefore I'll most likely pirate it beforehand,then buy it later if I believe it's worth my hard earned money.
Trailers and Demos be damned, I prefer to test the whole product.
*VG = Virtual Goods aka music/video/books/games etc
The saphire crystal is 9 so yes anything equal or above that will scratch it.
About the jewelry, it was most likely diamond or another saphire, makes sense that that would scratch it. However it should resist all kinds metals.
Extremely specialized robots already exist. Meet the Assembly robot http://www.robots.com/applications.php?app=robotic+assembly
afaik they're only telling you you're getting monitored.
They're not telling you what they're actually experimenting with.
It's rather irrelevant though.
What they want to know isn't "How do you eat"
But "How does your eating change if we do X and Y"
So how you're eating when you're being watched will become the baseline they're doing experiments on seeing how it changed by changing variables.
the idea is that the robot holds the scapel and the surgeon is remote controlling, not all robots are autonomous.
Yes you could sue them and the tutorial most likely has a text where they explicitly allow you to use their code, if they don't you're actually not allowed to use it.
I have nothing but pure hatred for those that rar video. You're wasting my hard drive space you !#" >.
Isn't computer tech fairly predictable making an even cycle very comfy?
It was done by some criminal but with sports games betting and making the sucker pay 10000 dollars for the 5th advice.
in the presence of the smart card the content will have to be displayed and thus free to get copied.
I suspect you might have heard of X-Men
If you can't wait 2 weeks to get a HD-DVD for free instead of buying it something is wrong with you.
I don't know anyone that copies DVD's, what a waste of time and effort. You download em.
Like, the content would have to be downloaded to the pc and thus it would be trivial to get rid of the DRM yet again.
I thought serious companies we're supposed to not give employees access to customer passwords.
HD quality isn't more then 1gb per hour. Go to your favorite pirate site and check out the filesize of the 1024 res vids.
Maybe because various things don't work on Vista Ultimate, like what benefit do you get exactly?
I'll live happily with my illegal ad-free copy thank you very much. I bet someone will hack the game to disable the ads.
One thing about the information they gather though, In some countries like mine(Sweden) there are some very strict privacy laws that prevents people from gathering the kind of data they plan to gather. I wonder what they'll plan to do about that, I don't think I ever saw any adds in BF2142, might be because of that.
For now and probably for quite a while disk space is cheaper then bandwidth.
There is no fight.
Either your phone is unlockable and legal or it's not and illegal. Simple stuff.