Thank god for copyright law, or else people might just get away with such atrocious fraud
I know you're being sarcastic, but copyright law is what protects the GPL (since it is a copyright license), and copyright law is one of the reasons SCO's case fell apart, because they actually distributed their own code under the GPL and then tried to sue people using it.
Well, yeah. If you pay for a cell phone, you have a reasonable expectation that it's going to work. Your argument is like saying we shouldn't care about leaks in the roofs of our houses because our ancestors used to live outside.
What a shocker, someone on pro-piracy, anti-copyright site Slashdot says piracy has never caused any creative work to fail.
Meanwhile, PC gaming is in the shitter while console gaming has risen to new revenue heights. Gee, I wonder why that is? And if you think I'm just stating my own opinion, Epic itself has cited PC piracy as one of the reasons they focus so much on consoles now.
Besides that, it's just common sense. If an artist can't make a living off something, they won't have the means to keep doing it. I'm not sure why these basic economics escape most piracy supporters. I think it's the selfish gene at play, trying to justify getting something for free by removing any sense of culpability. People have invented this silly cultural war that they're a part of, where they're rebellious good guys in a war against the evil bad guys of the MPAA and RIAA, and visiting places like Pirate Bay is fighting the good fight. Meanwhile, the artists actually making the content that's getting pirated are either glossed over or never mentioned. I think it's because thinking about them reminds the pirates that they're not paying someone for their work, which decimates the whole glorified cultural war scenario they've concocted in their heads.
In other words, piracy is nothing more than selfish people being selfish and trying to justify it by portraying other things as bad guys. Rant about copyrights all you want, but not paying somebody for the time, effort, and expenses of recording an album in a studio or the years they spent developing a piece of software so they could feed their families is immoral and shitty of you.
I'm curious if this will get modded up, down, or a see-saw of both, with copious use of the Overrated modifier to avoid meta-moderation, as usual. Whatever.
With usernames and passwords, you can see what torrents an account has uploaded and seeded, as well as other stats. Pirate Bay is facilitating the distribution of illegal materials through their tracker, and being an uploader makes you equally culpable.
Your "paid for marketing" accusation is absolutely hysterical and typical of the loony worldview pirates have.
They're facilitating the illegal transfer of copyrighted materials via their tracker. If you were the guy organizing the travel routes of a cocaine trafficking trade, you'd still be guilty even if you never handled the cocaine.
Since when does The Pirate Bay have a policy of only distributing "publicly available information?" Pprivate information has been distributed via Pirate Bay before, such as the leaked Half-Life 2 source code or Paris Hilton's hacked cell phone pictures. Why should this information be any different?
It's irritating that you're post is marked down as Troll, because you make a very good point. Why shouldn't the information be put up as a torrent and distributed via Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks? Is it not hypocrisy otherwise?
You're an idiot. Nearly every Apple story gets flooded with Apple haters invented melodrama where there is none, because it's such a horrible thing for a company to approve what runs on its device (even though every console manufacturer does exactly the same thing).
Don't forget the tactic of responding to a highly-rated comment in a contrarian way by accusing the poster of a strawman argument and accusing them of astroturfing, you two-faced M$ stockholder.
I can't wait for the day when the government is allowed to regulate internet traffic through "net neutrality" legislation. I'm sure the RIAA and MPAA won't lobby politicians to police torrent traffic. Governments are never corrupt! Nothing could possibly go wrong, and this story isn't a shining example of the government's surplus of power.
Why be proud of someone who refused helpful money? Think of the positive things he could have done by contributing it to a good cause, such as a math program for children. Refusing it and justifying it as some ethical behavior is actually the more self-centered, attention-seeking action to take.
Perhaps he could apply his math skills and divide the money among those who contributed. Or he could donate it to a good cause. This really doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve.
Yeah, "poor guy," getting offered millions of dollars but having to make the effort of turning it down instead of donating it to a good cause. I can't imagine that kind of hardship.
For every uninformed church-going conservative, there's an uninformed liberal who watched Al Gore's movie, believes everything in it without question, and thinks all changes in climate are due to human activity while ignoring the biggest producer of greenhouse gases--the earth itself. To them, if it gets too hot, it's global warming. If it gets too cold, it's global warming. They've set up the debate so that they can't lose, and they ignore any and all criticism of their data.
The real problem is that these same people use the guilt to try to shame people into accepting higher taxes and other government programs.
Because the left never uses that kind of reasoning to defend their views.
When the global temperature actually rises--as it hasn't done since 1998--maybe people will start accepting higher taxes and all the other stuff liberals use climate change to justify. Until then, it's going to be difficult to accept your premise.
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I know you're being sarcastic, but copyright law is what protects the GPL (since it is a copyright license), and copyright law is one of the reasons SCO's case fell apart, because they actually distributed their own code under the GPL and then tried to sue people using it.
Well, yeah. If you pay for a cell phone, you have a reasonable expectation that it's going to work. Your argument is like saying we shouldn't care about leaks in the roofs of our houses because our ancestors used to live outside.
What a shocker, someone on pro-piracy, anti-copyright site Slashdot says piracy has never caused any creative work to fail.
Meanwhile, PC gaming is in the shitter while console gaming has risen to new revenue heights. Gee, I wonder why that is? And if you think I'm just stating my own opinion, Epic itself has cited PC piracy as one of the reasons they focus so much on consoles now.
Besides that, it's just common sense. If an artist can't make a living off something, they won't have the means to keep doing it. I'm not sure why these basic economics escape most piracy supporters. I think it's the selfish gene at play, trying to justify getting something for free by removing any sense of culpability. People have invented this silly cultural war that they're a part of, where they're rebellious good guys in a war against the evil bad guys of the MPAA and RIAA, and visiting places like Pirate Bay is fighting the good fight. Meanwhile, the artists actually making the content that's getting pirated are either glossed over or never mentioned. I think it's because thinking about them reminds the pirates that they're not paying someone for their work, which decimates the whole glorified cultural war scenario they've concocted in their heads.
In other words, piracy is nothing more than selfish people being selfish and trying to justify it by portraying other things as bad guys. Rant about copyrights all you want, but not paying somebody for the time, effort, and expenses of recording an album in a studio or the years they spent developing a piece of software so they could feed their families is immoral and shitty of you.
I'm curious if this will get modded up, down, or a see-saw of both, with copious use of the Overrated modifier to avoid meta-moderation, as usual. Whatever.
With usernames and passwords, you can see what torrents an account has uploaded and seeded, as well as other stats. Pirate Bay is facilitating the distribution of illegal materials through their tracker, and being an uploader makes you equally culpable.
Your "paid for marketing" accusation is absolutely hysterical and typical of the loony worldview pirates have.
They're facilitating the illegal transfer of copyrighted materials via their tracker. If you were the guy organizing the travel routes of a cocaine trafficking trade, you'd still be guilty even if you never handled the cocaine.
Since when does The Pirate Bay have a policy of only distributing "publicly available information?" Pprivate information has been distributed via Pirate Bay before, such as the leaked Half-Life 2 source code or Paris Hilton's hacked cell phone pictures. Why should this information be any different?
It's irritating that you're post is marked down as Troll, because you make a very good point. Why shouldn't the information be put up as a torrent and distributed via Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks? Is it not hypocrisy otherwise?
Actually, you had no counterargument to my point, so you were forced to resort to a strawman involving toys. Grats on -1 Flamebait.
You're an idiot. Nearly every Apple story gets flooded with Apple haters invented melodrama where there is none, because it's such a horrible thing for a company to approve what runs on its device (even though every console manufacturer does exactly the same thing).
Is it synergistic?
Don't worry, all the people who would have bashed Bush for doing this will defend it because it's Obama.
P.S. Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." What could possibly go wrong with having the government regulate internet traffic?
And once again, idealistic people get behind an inferior technology for ideological reasons while everyone else moves forward.
If you're concerned about maturity, the official WoW forums should be the last place on your mind.
But their source code looks so pretty without pointers and memory management, so it must be good!
One could argue that Steam proves PC games sell well when they can't be pirated.
Don't forget the tactic of responding to a highly-rated comment in a contrarian way by accusing the poster of a strawman argument and accusing them of astroturfing, you two-faced M$ stockholder.
How dare anyone not use Windows or Linux. They will not get away with this.
Shut Up is a Safari extension that removes the comment sections from several popular websites. Enjoy less bullshit in your web browsing.
I can't wait for the day when the government is allowed to regulate internet traffic through "net neutrality" legislation. I'm sure the RIAA and MPAA won't lobby politicians to police torrent traffic. Governments are never corrupt! Nothing could possibly go wrong, and this story isn't a shining example of the government's surplus of power.
Why be proud of someone who refused helpful money? Think of the positive things he could have done by contributing it to a good cause, such as a math program for children. Refusing it and justifying it as some ethical behavior is actually the more self-centered, attention-seeking action to take.
Perhaps he could apply his math skills and divide the money among those who contributed. Or he could donate it to a good cause. This really doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve.
Yeah, "poor guy," getting offered millions of dollars but having to make the effort of turning it down instead of donating it to a good cause. I can't imagine that kind of hardship.
So the guy should donate it back. This isn't hard to figure out.
For every uninformed church-going conservative, there's an uninformed liberal who watched Al Gore's movie, believes everything in it without question, and thinks all changes in climate are due to human activity while ignoring the biggest producer of greenhouse gases--the earth itself. To them, if it gets too hot, it's global warming. If it gets too cold, it's global warming. They've set up the debate so that they can't lose, and they ignore any and all criticism of their data.
The real problem is that these same people use the guilt to try to shame people into accepting higher taxes and other government programs.
Because the left never uses that kind of reasoning to defend their views.
When the global temperature actually rises--as it hasn't done since 1998--maybe people will start accepting higher taxes and all the other stuff liberals use climate change to justify. Until then, it's going to be difficult to accept your premise.