I have a feeling that if every record label on earth disappeared, we would get by just fine. They act like their industry is as important as farming and manufacturing.
You can't prove that a pirate was willing to buy a game so you can't prove you actually lost anything, but Gamestop flaunts their second hand sales to their stockholders, so you know exactly how much people were willing to pay. But now instead of the publishers getting money and making more games, it goes to Gamestop so they can make more...money.
The internet trades off nothing.
It is merely a vehicle by which we are currently connected to each other and by which we will someday nearly all be even more closely connected to each other.
Right now, if we wanted to get a general idea about what Jessica Simpson or Jerry Seinfeld has been doing in the last month, we can. I only see that portal into other people's thoughts and lives growing larger all the time.
As if intellectual property owners didn't have ENOUGH legal clout these days (including guilty-until-proven-innocent instaverdicts)!
Cheating or not, no software company should be able to tell us what programs can run in tandem with theirs.
News outlets are outdated. Our society can communicate any important news to each other to the point that everyone knows it in hours.
Plane goes down in the Hudson? A twitter user scooped all news outlets from his phone.
The internet is moving us toward a collective consciousness without the need to. We don't need a corporation spoonfeeding us what it thinks we need to know. We know it anyway whenever we want to.
I think people with popular "rejected" apps should put them (maybe they already are?) on Cydia.
My iPhone has been much more useful (and has a prettier interface) since I started getting my apps from there.
"We need to monitor your internet searches. You know, to prevent pedophilia."
"But I don't want anyone's internet searches monitored without a warrant to monitor them."
"SO YOU'RE PRO-CHILD MOLESTATION AND YOU WANT GRAPHIC SEXUAL DEPICTIONS OF THEM ON THE INTERNET?!"
"What in the hell? That's not what I said at all!"
"Maybe we should be monitoring YOU, pervert."
That they're the laughingstock of the American justice system, and that people on both sides of patent litigation see them as milking cows for patent squatters.
Excellent; I fully a $13,000 per-incident judgement for every time they used the software without consent of the maker, every time they identified a user with one of their videos online.
I played WoW for about a year and a half after release, then put it aside for personal reasons, the foremost one being that I'm a flawed person with an addiction-prone personality!
Played and liked Guild Wars for two years, played and liked Age of Conan for two months, but I'm beginning to see a sameness in nearly all MMOs. Of course each will have their slight variations, but in the end ever subscription MMO is trying to beat Blizzard at what they do best (except Guild Wars...that game marches to the beat of its own drum).
Until a MMOG offers something revolutionary and enjoyable, they might as well name every single one "Not WoW", because that's how their potential customers see it.
I agree with this. Freedom of speech is one of the most important things we have, and usenet is a great venue for that. A good example of a decentralized communications network.
Alarm clocks disrupt sleep in a far more unhealthy and dramatic fashion than a simple glow that anyone can adapt to. My laptop or other electronic devices are the least of our worries.
Ah, then you see software as real goods rather than as a disc full of ideas. That is perfectly fine and is quite compatible with EA's actions.
To go with the car analogy, Gamestop is now selling a car from which the engine and stereo system have been stripped out. If people are willing to buy it (and there probably will be), then Gamestop is making money the old-fashioned way: parting money from fools.
In my line of business, if we have a loss that we have numbers for, we put it on our taxes. I suggest they do the same. I'm sure the IRS will be more than willing to audit the hell out of them. Oops, I mean, accept their numbers without question.
If anyone should make money off of a game, it should be the copyright holders. They did all the work and took all the risks creating the game. Gamestop created nothing and deserves nothing.
With piracy, the person pirating may or may not have paid for the game so you don't know if the game makers are losing money or not.
With used game sales, it's clear that the game makers are losing money because someone is willing to pay for it.
Good on EA for finding a legal and effective way to keep Gamestop from siphoning money away from the creators and publishers.
I feel that this notion ingrained in to our environmental education that anything and everything human beings do is bad and/or unnatural is just wrong.
The universe is a vast place. And in the big picture, we are all part of it. Nothing we could possibly do is out of the bounds of nature on a universal scale. We have as much right to explore, seed, and shape the cosmos as any other creature in the universe. If we disturb the habitat of any other planet, so be it. It's the laws of the universe at work.
To paraphrase Carl Sagan...
The cosmos is within all of us. We are made of star stuff.
I'm pretty sure their lines are capable of carrying far more bandwidth than they're putting out, and with these bandwidth caps, they'll be able to make even more money while providing less service.
Since people don't have much choice on who to go to, it would be nice if they allowed competitors to use the same lines.
I've thought for a long time that they should put this on their tax returns. If they are experiencing an 80-90% loss on piracy, claim it and let the IRS sort it out.
I would gladly give my money directly to developers, or have a middleman that skims very little of the hard work of the creators.
I will be buying all these games and routing money to the developers primarily, along with EFF and CP.
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It's a measure of speed in this case because it's an apples to apples comparison. They're all the same kind of processor.
I have a feeling that if every record label on earth disappeared, we would get by just fine. They act like their industry is as important as farming and manufacturing.
You can't prove that a pirate was willing to buy a game so you can't prove you actually lost anything, but Gamestop flaunts their second hand sales to their stockholders, so you know exactly how much people were willing to pay. But now instead of the publishers getting money and making more games, it goes to Gamestop so they can make more...money.
Exactly! You could increase your tax losses (and thus writeoffs) by connecting to a torrent tracker an infinite number of times. Pure genius!
The internet trades off nothing. It is merely a vehicle by which we are currently connected to each other and by which we will someday nearly all be even more closely connected to each other. Right now, if we wanted to get a general idea about what Jessica Simpson or Jerry Seinfeld has been doing in the last month, we can. I only see that portal into other people's thoughts and lives growing larger all the time.
Yeah, I hate cheating too, but this is too high of a cost. It's like using a guillotine to fix your dandruff.
As if intellectual property owners didn't have ENOUGH legal clout these days (including guilty-until-proven-innocent instaverdicts)! Cheating or not, no software company should be able to tell us what programs can run in tandem with theirs.
News outlets are outdated. Our society can communicate any important news to each other to the point that everyone knows it in hours.
Plane goes down in the Hudson? A twitter user scooped all news outlets from his phone.
The internet is moving us toward a collective consciousness without the need to. We don't need a corporation spoonfeeding us what it thinks we need to know. We know it anyway whenever we want to.
I think people with popular "rejected" apps should put them (maybe they already are?) on Cydia. My iPhone has been much more useful (and has a prettier interface) since I started getting my apps from there.
"We need to monitor your internet searches. You know, to prevent pedophilia."
"But I don't want anyone's internet searches monitored without a warrant to monitor them."
"SO YOU'RE PRO-CHILD MOLESTATION AND YOU WANT GRAPHIC SEXUAL DEPICTIONS OF THEM ON THE INTERNET?!"
"What in the hell? That's not what I said at all!"
"Maybe we should be monitoring YOU, pervert."
That they're the laughingstock of the American justice system, and that people on both sides of patent litigation see them as milking cows for patent squatters.
Subject one contains 160 milliempathetals, while subject two's milliempathetals measure only 96.
Excellent; I fully a $13,000 per-incident judgement for every time they used the software without consent of the maker, every time they identified a user with one of their videos online.
Well, not completely yet. But how come there are only steps toward that direction, and not away from it?
I played WoW for about a year and a half after release, then put it aside for personal reasons, the foremost one being that I'm a flawed person with an addiction-prone personality!
Played and liked Guild Wars for two years, played and liked Age of Conan for two months, but I'm beginning to see a sameness in nearly all MMOs. Of course each will have their slight variations, but in the end ever subscription MMO is trying to beat Blizzard at what they do best (except Guild Wars...that game marches to the beat of its own drum).
Until a MMOG offers something revolutionary and enjoyable, they might as well name every single one "Not WoW", because that's how their potential customers see it.
I agree with this. Freedom of speech is one of the most important things we have, and usenet is a great venue for that. A good example of a decentralized communications network.
The last paragraph of the article answers your question directly.
Alarm clocks disrupt sleep in a far more unhealthy and dramatic fashion than a simple glow that anyone can adapt to. My laptop or other electronic devices are the least of our worries.
Ah, then you see software as real goods rather than as a disc full of ideas. That is perfectly fine and is quite compatible with EA's actions.
To go with the car analogy, Gamestop is now selling a car from which the engine and stereo system have been stripped out. If people are willing to buy it (and there probably will be), then Gamestop is making money the old-fashioned way: parting money from fools.
In my line of business, if we have a loss that we have numbers for, we put it on our taxes. I suggest they do the same. I'm sure the IRS will be more than willing to audit the hell out of them. Oops, I mean, accept their numbers without question.
If anyone should make money off of a game, it should be the copyright holders. They did all the work and took all the risks creating the game. Gamestop created nothing and deserves nothing. With piracy, the person pirating may or may not have paid for the game so you don't know if the game makers are losing money or not. With used game sales, it's clear that the game makers are losing money because someone is willing to pay for it. Good on EA for finding a legal and effective way to keep Gamestop from siphoning money away from the creators and publishers.
I feel that this notion ingrained in to our environmental education that anything and everything human beings do is bad and/or unnatural is just wrong.
The universe is a vast place. And in the big picture, we are all part of it. Nothing we could possibly do is out of the bounds of nature on a universal scale. We have as much right to explore, seed, and shape the cosmos as any other creature in the universe. If we disturb the habitat of any other planet, so be it. It's the laws of the universe at work.
To paraphrase Carl Sagan... The cosmos is within all of us. We are made of star stuff.
I'm pretty sure their lines are capable of carrying far more bandwidth than they're putting out, and with these bandwidth caps, they'll be able to make even more money while providing less service.
Since people don't have much choice on who to go to, it would be nice if they allowed competitors to use the same lines.
I've thought for a long time that they should put this on their tax returns. If they are experiencing an 80-90% loss on piracy, claim it and let the IRS sort it out.
I would gladly give my money directly to developers, or have a middleman that skims very little of the hard work of the creators. I will be buying all these games and routing money to the developers primarily, along with EFF and CP.