With XNA the XBox is the most open of the game consoles from a developer's point of view. PS3 allows you to run Linux, but access to the video hardware is quite limited, and for the Wii your only route to hobby development is homebrew.
Piracy is the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works. If you circumvent the copy protection but do not distribute the resulting product, you have effectively broken the DMCA but that is not piracy*.
Any given game is supplied by a single publisher. That means the publisher has a monopoly on said game. Supply and demand has no bearing on monopoly prices. Economics 101.
Price fixing happens when multiple suppliers agree on a price level instead of competing between themselves. The publisher has no other supplier of the game with whom to agree a price, thus no proce fixing.
It did work quite well for them. Got them to over 90% browser market share. Now if Google Search starts working slower for the other players we have a new shiny antitrust suit on the works.
LMAO. Yeah. Because Kazaa didn't tell you at the start of the install that files on your computer will be shared with other users unless disabled. Oh wait, it does.
Yeah. Because everyone reads all the crap at the start of the install, especially since most installers have those friendly and easy to understand EULA things that even a 6 year old kid could make sense out of.
Really, who paid for their fire trucks? I seriously doubt it was done through standing at lights with a boot asking for spare change...
I do, as well as a host of other people. Donating on a monthly basis. Others do donate at lights. The older volunteers who are no longer physically apt to work in fires and rescue keep active by holding events to bring in more monthly donations.
On the other hand, the ISPs would finally have an incentive to increase effective speeds, since the faster your connection the more data you can move around.
The RIAA is an organization dedicated to maximizing restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying music. They have a virulent, though perhaps less open, bias against music customers; and are blatantly biased against the public.
Which is why you will buy it online directly from the publisher's site or console maker's store (so they can blame your ISP for throttling/capping your connection), and they will make extensive use of P2P technology to deliver the content (thus not paying for the bulk of the distribution channel and further encouraging your ISP to throttle/cap).
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With XNA the XBox is the most open of the game consoles from a developer's point of view. PS3 allows you to run Linux, but access to the video hardware is quite limited, and for the Wii your only route to hobby development is homebrew.
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I think being rewarded by the majority is right.
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Piracy is the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works. If you circumvent the copy protection but do not distribute the resulting product, you have effectively broken the DMCA but that is not piracy*.
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* Please don't start with the high seas crap.
That still fails to explain why "artistic creations" are considered worthy of longer protection than "technical inventions".
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Any given game is supplied by a single publisher. That means the publisher has a monopoly on said game. Supply and demand has no bearing on monopoly prices. Economics 101.
Price fixing happens when multiple suppliers agree on a price level instead of competing between themselves. The publisher has no other supplier of the game with whom to agree a price, thus no proce fixing.
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...in the way eg. Apple's CEO is in control.
Was that intended to praise or criticize Microsoft?
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It did work quite well for them. Got them to over 90% browser market share. Now if Google Search starts working slower for the other players we have a new shiny antitrust suit on the works.
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...the program that does slideshows (what's that called again, haven't used it for years)...
Impress? ;)
The 97.6% who could not shave on that once-in-a-lifetime day?
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All mp3 players that use regular AAA batteries can use rechargeable batteries.
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...the $, is going to be the same.
I wouldn't bet on that.
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We really need a miles per litre measure...
Oh, the heresy!!!
Then I have much bigger problems.
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...in order to increase public trust in them
Not much of a good job at that...
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LMAO. Yeah. Because Kazaa didn't tell you at the start of the install that files on your computer will be shared with other users unless disabled. Oh wait, it does.
Yeah. Because everyone reads all the crap at the start of the install, especially since most installers have those friendly and easy to understand EULA things that even a 6 year old kid could make sense out of.
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And with the taxes due on that income the current financial crisis could be solved, perhaps?
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Really, who paid for their fire trucks? I seriously doubt it was done through standing at lights with a boot asking for spare change...
I do, as well as a host of other people. Donating on a monthly basis. Others do donate at lights. The older volunteers who are no longer physically apt to work in fires and rescue keep active by holding events to bring in more monthly donations.
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And smart ones who point out the issue...
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On the other hand, the ISPs would finally have an incentive to increase effective speeds, since the faster your connection the more data you can move around.
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Which is why they wrote it in a memo.
Say you only got one hand. Will a Wiimote still work correctly? Oh, wait!
Are you aware of the danger of sending a kid loaded with $500 back home to a booze/drug addicted parent?
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The RIAA is an organization dedicated to maximizing restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying music. They have a virulent, though perhaps less open, bias against music customers; and are blatantly biased against the public.
There. Much more accurate.
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Did you miss the part about "unrealized childhood ambitions" or about "current fantasies"?
Which is why you will buy it online directly from the publisher's site or console maker's store (so they can blame your ISP for throttling/capping your connection), and they will make extensive use of P2P technology to deliver the content (thus not paying for the bulk of the distribution channel and further encouraging your ISP to throttle/cap).
Sigh...