Maybe Ellison is the Antichrist and he's a major proponent of the mark of the beast for all transactions. Oh wait, i'm not Christian...well in that case maybe it's time to move from the US, where there are so many people that act like sheep, to New Zealand where there are more sheep than people.
I believe you are taking the argument far too radically and out of context. He is saying that isn't right for you to own an idea (and therefore lock that one idea from everyone else), since all ideas are built from prior ideas and influences. You're stopping other people from having the chances that you did.
On the second account, however, save for some ad hominum attacks, i agree with you. It is seemingly plain wrong that compensation should be distributed by the labor involved. Who will judge it? It just runs into many more problems than it (Intellectual property) currently has.
Personally, i think that when you buy something, it is then yours. If i buy a car, i should be able to modify it in any way i feel like it. Similarly, if i buy a program, i should be able to modify the code to better suit my needs. As far as the movies are concerned, the MPAA, actors, directors, et cetera, have made massive amounts of money on them and, frankly, they're just being greedy. Putting flags on everything that says 'mine' then fighting everyone off who dares come near their ideas. It's intellectual territorialism and it will not work in the long run.
As far as it simply not being 'ethical', i'd just have to respond that ethics is a product of your society, not of some hidden form lurking behind reality, but that's spilling onto a whole host of philosophical arguments, and i think i'll just let it drop there.
Adding advertisments to game worlds such as everquest? Ok ok, so Everquest isn't much of a fantasy world...in fact it's just a glorified monster whack, but non-the-less, I couldn't stand to be in a perpetual online FANTASY world with Coca-Cola banners. How idiotic are these people, and wouldn't it be that much more idiotic if the videogame publishers/developers actually put these in?
I'm thinking we're only a few steps away from having advertisments beamed into our dreams (ala futurama).
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After so many bounced and now that most of what's left are hurting...it's unlikely to see them gain alot of financial backing.
Maybe Ellison is the Antichrist and he's a major proponent of the mark of the beast for all transactions. Oh wait, i'm not Christian...well in that case maybe it's time to move from the US, where there are so many people that act like sheep, to New Zealand where there are more sheep than people.
Now I know you're lying. Girlfriends playing quake! PREPOSTEROUS!
umm...mod this down please.
Isn't that pretty much admitting I have news addiction?
When was the previous Bin Laden attack? Is it some sort of religious day? Specific year?
I can't resist.
Initial buy: $49.99
Monthly rate: $9.89
The fact that some idiot payed twelve hundered dollars real cash for a videogame character:
Priceless
I believe you are taking the argument far too radically and out of context. He is saying that isn't right for you to own an idea (and therefore lock that one idea from everyone else), since all ideas are built from prior ideas and influences. You're stopping other people from having the chances that you did. On the second account, however, save for some ad hominum attacks, i agree with you. It is seemingly plain wrong that compensation should be distributed by the labor involved. Who will judge it? It just runs into many more problems than it (Intellectual property) currently has. Personally, i think that when you buy something, it is then yours. If i buy a car, i should be able to modify it in any way i feel like it. Similarly, if i buy a program, i should be able to modify the code to better suit my needs. As far as the movies are concerned, the MPAA, actors, directors, et cetera, have made massive amounts of money on them and, frankly, they're just being greedy. Putting flags on everything that says 'mine' then fighting everyone off who dares come near their ideas. It's intellectual territorialism and it will not work in the long run. As far as it simply not being 'ethical', i'd just have to respond that ethics is a product of your society, not of some hidden form lurking behind reality, but that's spilling onto a whole host of philosophical arguments, and i think i'll just let it drop there.
Adding advertisments to game worlds such as everquest? Ok ok, so Everquest isn't much of a fantasy world...in fact it's just a glorified monster whack, but non-the-less, I couldn't stand to be in a perpetual online FANTASY world with Coca-Cola banners. How idiotic are these people, and wouldn't it be that much more idiotic if the videogame publishers/developers actually put these in? I'm thinking we're only a few steps away from having advertisments beamed into our dreams (ala futurama).
I seriously doubt it would've been any better under Al Gores administration. How soon we forget Lieberman's campagin against violence in videogames.