This is probably very redundant, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents...
When Sony first released the playstation, I totally dismissed it as another company with no gaming experience trying to get a piece of the home video game pie.
but when FFVII was released, I think it gave the playstation a lot of credibility.
I can tell you this: the only reason *I* bought a playstation was so I could play FFVII. If it had ended up on the N64, I probably would have bought an N64.
you can't label it as being done purely for joy or purely for economic reasons.
some people do it for the love of the art.
some people do it to make a political statement about our economic system.
some people do it as pure research to benefit the body of knowledge in the software development field.
to try to say that all open source software is done for reason X is a little shortsighted.
It's precisely that type of linear thinking that makes other people say 'open source is communism' or 'open source can be taken seriously because it's done as a hobby'.
as with anything in life, the motivations for any one movement are so complex that pinning them down is something of an impossible task.
Just wait until Dr of Quackology Erich von Däniken get ahold of this information.
How long before he starts finding models of airplanes and alien landing strips among the ruins?
it's cos they always have to be first to market
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sega always goes out first with the 'next gen' machines. they did it with genesis and they did it with saturn then dreamcast.
that just lets the competition sit back and see what technogoies they can steal and out-do from sega.
if sega would just sit back and let someone else push ahead for a change, they might have a better chance.
you know 'innocent until proven guilty'?
this proposal has got things bass-ackwards. This assumes that the files are illegal before they are out there for the public.
any court that claims to uphold the constitution would not go in for this idea. that's that.
maybe I'm naive, but i'm not too worried about this happening. it sets a dangerous precedent.
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This is probably very redundant, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents...
When Sony first released the playstation, I totally dismissed it as another company with no gaming experience trying to get a piece of the home video game pie.
but when FFVII was released, I think it gave the playstation a lot of credibility.
I can tell you this: the only reason *I* bought a playstation was so I could play FFVII. If it had ended up on the N64, I probably would have bought an N64.
you can't label it as being done purely for joy or purely for economic reasons.
some people do it for the love of the art.
some people do it to make a political statement about our economic system.
some people do it as pure research to benefit the body of knowledge in the software development field.
to try to say that all open source software is done for reason X is a little shortsighted.
It's precisely that type of linear thinking that makes other people say 'open source is communism' or 'open source can be taken seriously because it's done as a hobby'.
as with anything in life, the motivations for any one movement are so complex that pinning them down is something of an impossible task.
As it stands currently, copyright law is *almost* international.
Each nation has their own copyright laws, but almost all are either:
1) parties to the Berne Copyright Convention
or
2) Members of the World Trade Organisation
If your country belongs to either of these, it is already bound by a pseudo-international copyright law.
The only countries not parties to these two conventions probably don't care much about copyright to begin with.
So, I don't think that an international treaty will change very much at all.
Just wait until Dr of Quackology Erich von Däniken get ahold of this information. How long before he starts finding models of airplanes and alien landing strips among the ruins?
it's alive and well everyhwere on the 'net
like http://rpgtoolkit.com
try doing a search on home made rpgs or games on the net and you might be suprised.
um, what's a napster? i used to know...
sega always goes out first with the 'next gen' machines. they did it with genesis and they did it with saturn then dreamcast. that just lets the competition sit back and see what technogoies they can steal and out-do from sega. if sega would just sit back and let someone else push ahead for a change, they might have a better chance.
you know 'innocent until proven guilty'? this proposal has got things bass-ackwards. This assumes that the files are illegal before they are out there for the public. any court that claims to uphold the constitution would not go in for this idea. that's that. maybe I'm naive, but i'm not too worried about this happening. it sets a dangerous precedent.