If that's the problem you're terrible at your job. Professional game design isn't about creating great works of art. It's about designing games that sell. The 13-year old demographic would have been part of the initial pitch.
If the changes ruin it you need to be able to explain why they'll ruin it.
Surely the 8.3 filenames are stored as ASCII so it must be possible to at least preserve the case.
and then try to use them with equipment old enough to only support 8.3 names, or equipment that only supports 8.3 names to avoid the VFAT patent.
I can only presume this has been considered and MS-DOS compatibility is not considered remotely relevant today. Other devices that require 8.3 filenames will probably be rare enough that having to provide the extra compatibility information is a small tradeoff.
Yes. This has been a risk for a while though. Some Usenet providers clearly make a lot of their income from users who only use the service for copyright infringement.
While there are legal arguments about whether or not this makes them a service for copyright infringement any more than an ISP with a fast connection, it's certainly true that they make at least money indirectly through copyright infringement, and many of them have a marketing policy that would appear to support this.
More of the obvious conclusion for the data. Of course, that assumes decent data, which we apparently don't have. It's a case of Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Presumably less of a demand in the US where 90% or more DVDs come out there first. They're pretty easy to find in Europe. A lot of stores will display multi-region as a specific feature.
Even the CEO of Toshiba conceded the loss of the HD-DVD / Blu Ray "wars". So for all of you who own an HD DVD player... enjoy the fact very few movies are coming out for you.
I think most of us have the same attitude as I do here. We're enjoying the fact that we can get the back catalogue (some of which may never come out on blu-ray for contractual reasons) pretty cheaply. Personally I plan to buy a Blu-ray player in addition, when prices fall and multi-region versions are available.
The table's in the article. HD-DVD + XBOX with external drive = 14% (assuming no overlap). PS3 + Blu-ray player = 16% likewise assuming no overlap). Of course, some of those PS3 owners bought a PS3 solely for games, and AFAIK, the add-on for the XBox is only usable for videos. So, blu-ray has sold slightly more but still surprisingly not the roaring success that everyone expected Blu-Ray to be after HD-DVD officially died.
I don't think this applies to the demographic though. These were still early adopter products up to the death of HD-DVD, and this group are quite knowledgable about tech.
I took up dance classes and did NanoWriMo last year, mainly for the meetups. I also do trapeze classes. All great ways to meet people but the main pint is I enjoy them.
Talk about music that no person in their right mind would bother pirating.
Why not? I mean if you have taste that means that you enjoy music by these people, then it makes a lot of sense to download them. Or are you passing judgemtn on someone because their music tastes happen to be different from your own?
When she got on the bus she was in the "colored" section of the bus. It was when that section was moved (there was a sliding sign separating the two areas) that she refused to move.
I guess it's possible that she decided to sit at the front of the blacks only section to incite this but it sounds like she was seen as a good poster child after the arrest.
Exxon spent a lot of money cleaning up. Given the punitive damages, they could have just put their feet up and consider their debt to society paid. Since society prefers to encourage companies to clean up after themselves, it makes sense to reduce the award accordingly.
He appointed 5 ex-RIAA lawyers to prominent posts.
Now it's actually entirely possible that they are genuinely neutral about it. The job or a legal team is to advocate for a specific side of the argument. They no longer work for the RIAA. This is no longer their job.
Furthermore, they know the exact types of dirty tricks the RIAA plays.
Or look at it this way - do criminal defence attorneys really want to free as many murderers as possible? Of course not. The system is designed in a way that makes them necessary.
Well, to be fair, a lot of us Brits are also critical of our own country as well. I still refuse to go to the US and if I wasn't British I'd avoid this country too.
Well, she's already saddled with an unpayable debt. Ultimately, once you get to a certain point, there's no tangible difference between one debt she can never pay and a much larger debt. There's no way she could have paid $222,000 either.
The copyright office has said that the "copies for private study" exception includes listening to music for pleasure. That's just a legal opinion but it's a weighty one.
While I broadly agree with you - my justification for downloading is I like to get stuff for free and before it's released in this country - I'll still disagree that it's theft.
Legally it's different from theft, and argue whatever you want about the morality of it, the main problem is that theft is a loaded word that distracts from the point. There's lots of arguments as to why piracy is wrong. Make the arguments. "Piracy is theft" is nothing but rhetoric.
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If that's the problem you're terrible at your job. Professional game design isn't about creating great works of art. It's about designing games that sell. The 13-year old demographic would have been part of the initial pitch.
If the changes ruin it you need to be able to explain why they'll ruin it.
Surely the 8.3 filenames are stored as ASCII so it must be possible to at least preserve the case.
and then try to use them with equipment old enough to only support 8.3 names, or equipment that only supports 8.3 names to avoid the VFAT patent.
I can only presume this has been considered and MS-DOS compatibility is not considered remotely relevant today. Other devices that require 8.3 filenames will probably be rare enough that having to provide the extra compatibility information is a small tradeoff.
Not much, but "USB Drives" covers a lot of devices. Most MP3 players and digital picture frames behave as USB drives, so do some satnav devices.
Yes. This has been a risk for a while though. Some Usenet providers clearly make a lot of their income from users who only use the service for copyright infringement.
While there are legal arguments about whether or not this makes them a service for copyright infringement any more than an ISP with a fast connection, it's certainly true that they make at least money indirectly through copyright infringement, and many of them have a marketing policy that would appear to support this.
They sued usenet.com. Not usenet itself. This was because the company was contributing to copyright infringement, not because the technology was.
Spamhaus are okay. I do have issue with them occasionally using the list as a political tool rather than simply a spam blocking list.
It's not that I disagree with their objectives since persuading organisations to disconnect phishing scams is a good thing. Just their methodology.
If that's your conclusion... someone messed up.
More of the obvious conclusion for the data. Of course, that assumes decent data, which we apparently don't have. It's a case of Garbage In, Garbage Out.
multi-region...goodluck with that.
Presumably less of a demand in the US where 90% or more DVDs come out there first. They're pretty easy to find in Europe. A lot of stores will display multi-region as a specific feature.
Even the CEO of Toshiba conceded the loss of the HD-DVD / Blu Ray "wars". So for all of you who own an HD DVD player... enjoy the fact very few movies are coming out for you.
I think most of us have the same attitude as I do here. We're enjoying the fact that we can get the back catalogue (some of which may never come out on blu-ray for contractual reasons) pretty cheaply. Personally I plan to buy a Blu-ray player in addition, when prices fall and multi-region versions are available.
The table's in the article. HD-DVD + XBOX with external drive = 14% (assuming no overlap). PS3 + Blu-ray player = 16% likewise assuming no overlap). Of course, some of those PS3 owners bought a PS3 solely for games, and AFAIK, the add-on for the XBox is only usable for videos. So, blu-ray has sold slightly more but still surprisingly not the roaring success that everyone expected Blu-Ray to be after HD-DVD officially died.
I don't think this applies to the demographic though. These were still early adopter products up to the death of HD-DVD, and this group are quite knowledgable about tech.
Try andget a licence to distribute a song to an unspecified number of people. They'll probably want more than $80000.
I took up dance classes and did NanoWriMo last year, mainly for the meetups. I also do trapeze classes. All great ways to meet people but the main pint is I enjoy them.
Talk about music that no person in their right mind would bother pirating.
Why not? I mean if you have taste that means that you enjoy music by these people, then it makes a lot of sense to download them. Or are you passing judgemtn on someone because their music tastes happen to be different from your own?
Are you saying this woman is incapable of setting change in motion such that her life might take a financial turn for the better?
Yes. Short of extreme improbably good luck, she's not going to do any of those things.
When she got on the bus she was in the "colored" section of the bus. It was when that section was moved (there was a sliding sign separating the two areas) that she refused to move.
I guess it's possible that she decided to sit at the front of the blacks only section to incite this but it sounds like she was seen as a good poster child after the arrest.
They could be charged $750-$150000 per CD as well.
Of course, in this case it makes more sense. It's actually plausible that they sold 50 copies of a CD worth $15.
Exxon spent a lot of money cleaning up. Given the punitive damages, they could have just put their feet up and consider their debt to society paid. Since society prefers to encourage companies to clean up after themselves, it makes sense to reduce the award accordingly.
You are wrong.
He appointed 5 ex-RIAA lawyers to prominent posts.
Now it's actually entirely possible that they are genuinely neutral about it. The job or a legal team is to advocate for a specific side of the argument. They no longer work for the RIAA. This is no longer their job. Furthermore, they know the exact types of dirty tricks the RIAA plays.
Or look at it this way - do criminal defence attorneys really want to free as many murderers as possible? Of course not. The system is designed in a way that makes them necessary.
Well, to be fair, a lot of us Brits are also critical of our own country as well. I still refuse to go to the US and if I wasn't British I'd avoid this country too.
Well, she's already saddled with an unpayable debt. Ultimately, once you get to a certain point, there's no tangible difference between one debt she can never pay and a much larger debt. There's no way she could have paid $222,000 either.
I'd have thought the opinion of the party that drafted the law would at least be considered when it comes to interpreting the law.
It's one of the more reputable newspapers in Britain. Has a moderate left wing stance and a well educated readership.
The copyright office has said that the "copies for private study" exception includes listening to music for pleasure. That's just a legal opinion but it's a weighty one.
While I broadly agree with you - my justification for downloading is I like to get stuff for free and before it's released in this country - I'll still disagree that it's theft.
Legally it's different from theft, and argue whatever you want about the morality of it, the main problem is that theft is a loaded word that distracts from the point. There's lots of arguments as to why piracy is wrong. Make the arguments. "Piracy is theft" is nothing but rhetoric.