I don't get why people assert that they have the right to media in a different format to the format in which they purchased it. A company has made something and is selling it. You can accept the deal or not, but you can't override their right to set the terms of the sale.
If I buy a gym membership at my local gym, which is open 8am-10pm, I don't have the right to break in a 3AM to have a swim. I knew the terms of the deal when I bought the membership. If having a 3AM swim is such a deal breaker to me, then I shouldn't have bought membership.
By who? Unless your employer is the government, their money comes from selling software licenses. You DID understand that your salary actually comes from people paying for software right?
Wow, hip young trendy kid! I didn't realise that being able to torrent Hollywood movies was the most important thing the world for nerds. Has it ever occurred to you that some nerds really don't mind so much paying for music, software and games that they want to use and enjoy? In fact, nerds should be paying for software more than anyone, because we appreciate the effort involved in its production.
You are confusing nerds with "kids who know how to use a PC."
So has this site given up all pretence of being 'news for nerds' and become a side-project for the pirate bay now?
Every story concerning piracy takes the pirates POV, every criticism of thepiratebay is brushed aside, and now top stories are new hollywood movies, complete with +5 modded links to copyrighted material.
I thought bit-torrent was only used for free speech and linux distros?
Well if you want better movies you need to pay to see ones you like. The slashdot crowd always says movies suck, alongside bashing the MPAA and proudly defending their right to torrent everything.
newsflash: Movies are made for people who *pay* to see them. if you don't pay, the movies are not aimed at you, so don't act amazed when you don't like them.
To get quality art in 3D is hugely expensive, and pushes the system requirements through the roof. I use 3D spaceship models rendered as sprites for my next game. They are hugely high poly, yet I rendre them using 2 quads. You can't get the same effect in 3D without rendering at least 30,000 times as many polys. It also means the entire ship (not just the bit facing the camera) needs to be modelled and textured.
I've worked on 3D games and 2D games. 3D gobbles up tons of CPU and GPU time and involves horrendously huge teams to get decent visual quality.
Show me the 2D games companies that are struggling. Popcap maybe? BigFishgames? Both making millions, whilst the big 3D blockbuster publishers struggle.
I'm not blindly doing anything. Yes katamari is better in 3D, but are all game better in 3D?
Most RTS games that use 3D even lock the camera into isometric mode deliberately because 2D is easier for us to control than 3D.
You could make World of Goo in 3D. Would it run on peoples laptops? (not so well I reckon). Would my mom and dad find it as easy to play? Not in a million years. Would it have cost more to make? Definitely.
Seriously. The obsession with 3D pushes every cost through the roof. 2D artwork (in a lot of cases) is tons cheaper, and can be made to work on very low end machines. Good luck getting crysis to run on a laptop that didn't cost an arm and a leg, but it's very difficult to balls up a 2D game enough for it not to run on an integrated chipset.
The crysis devs even admitted that their main problem was a game that wouldn't run on so many PCs. 2D games not only run everywhere, but they are easier to understand from a control POV to newcomers to gaming. They also reduce support costs a lot because if you aren't using cutting edge 3D techniques, you are less likely to get incompatibilities and inconsistencies with video card drivers and hardware.
Of course not all genres can work in 2D, but time and time again we see 3D bump-mapped pixel-shaded shinyness applied to games where it just isn't necessary. Imagine World Of Goo in 3D. Would it be a better game? Of course not, it would be horrid, and would lack the charm and individual art style that makes a game like that so fresh and awesome.
Journalists and gamers need to finally realise that 3D, and high dynamic range lighting are not what makes a game fun. They make it expensive, and they can make it more immersive, but they do not contribute automatically to making a game fun, which is what it's all about.
Showing the true intellectual side of the flimsy "music should be free" debate I see...
Its people like you, who think you are born with an entitlement to take other peoples work for free who 'don't get it' and really piss everyone else (who open their wallets and pay for the entertainment you swipe for nothing) off.
So in the medium term, when music is copyable and food is not, thieves like you will just swipe the music and not give a flying fuck how the musicians afford their food?
People like you are fucking shameful. At least shoplifters admit what they do is wrong.
couldn't agree more but here on torrentfreak (sorry slashdot) pirates and kids stealing music are heroes, and people who actually make stuff are scum.
In an amusing side issue, there is a lot of whining from the 'heroes' that all music and movies suck. This is obviously because the guys who made the music and movies they like now flip burgers.
They don't comprehend this, so they end up torrenting 'serenity' with one hand, whilst signing on-line petitions for a sequel that will never happen with the other hand.
Only a tirade of abuse like this, basically telling the people who make entertainment to go fuck themselves, gets modded insightful here at slashdot.
Telling people who make music and movies that they should fuck off and flip burgers if they can't pay the bills when everyone takes their work for free.
and you wonder why artists don't give a fuck about the attitudes of pirates?
Even shoplifters have the common fucking decency not to abuse the store manager and laugh in their face, so I guess the anti-copyright crowd are a step below even that.
Let me ask you this: If you are prepared to pay the people who grow your food for their work, why are you not prepared to pay the people who entertain you?
Face facts, its because you've found a way to steal one commodity and not the other. Any other rationalisation is just bullshit.
if you are involved in civil disobedience you do nOT try and hide your actions. if you do, the authorities canot distinguish your 'civil disobedience' from just being a common criminal.
This is not hard to understand surely?
99.9999% of people pirating stuff online sre not trying to change the law. They are trying to wangle out of paying for stuff. 99% of those people lie even to themselves about their true motives. I guess its not nice to realise you are a cheapass, so its understandable.
Laughable. If TPB is knowingly being used to faciliatet copyright infringement it should be shut down and the owners jailed. This is not rocket science. If your business is being used 99% to launder money for drug dealers, the fact that 1% of your trade might be legit shouldn't keep you out of jail.
3 guys distributing linux distros does not justify tens of millions leeching copyeighted content from the rest of us.
well said, but enjoy the bullshit rationalisations you will get as repleis here, as people try desperately to find some way to justify copyright infringement...
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how do video games work as a service industry?
And why do we have to completely redesign the way games are played because people are too tight assed to pay for your entertainment?
I don't get why people assert that they have the right to media in a different format to the format in which they purchased it.
A company has made something and is selling it. You can accept the deal or not, but you can't override their right to set the terms of the sale.
If I buy a gym membership at my local gym, which is open 8am-10pm, I don't have the right to break in a 3AM to have a swim. I knew the terms of the deal when I bought the membership. If having a 3AM swim is such a deal breaker to me, then I shouldn't have bought membership.
By who?
Unless your employer is the government, their money comes from selling software licenses. You DID understand that your salary actually comes from people paying for software right?
feel free. Nobody gives a fuck about people torrenting home made and free movies. How is this vaguely relevant to stealing Hollywoods output?
"I really don't care who has already been paid and by whom. The content has been commissioned and generated by someone, its not up to me to fund them"
What drivel.
Read it back and try and keep a straight face.
"I don't care who paid to have a ferrari made. its in the garage, so I'm swiping it"
Makes about as much moral sense doesn't it?
you have a choice of making a movie for
a) 18-20 year old tech savvy males
b) 40+ married couples.
Given that piracy rates for a) will be ten times that of b) and group a) demand a thousand times more sfx, which movie do you think will get funded?
Wow, hip young trendy kid!
I didn't realise that being able to torrent Hollywood movies was the most important thing the world for nerds.
Has it ever occurred to you that some nerds really don't mind so much paying for music, software and games that they want to use and enjoy?
In fact, nerds should be paying for software more than anyone, because we appreciate the effort involved in its production.
You are confusing nerds with "kids who know how to use a PC."
You are a 3d animator, so that explains why '2D' is considered 'luddite' to you.
How strange.
Books are 2D, and printed on paper. I guess you don't read any such 'luddite' books?
I love the way 'pushing the boundaries' is defined as 'pushing a lot of polygons'.
Music isn't better because its louder, faster or has more notes. 3D is not better than 2D. It's just different.
Its pathetic to think someone creative wants to treat anyone who doesn't prefer 3D as 'luddite'. I guess you despise black and white movies too eh?
So has this site given up all pretence of being 'news for nerds' and become a side-project for the pirate bay now?
Every story concerning piracy takes the pirates POV, every criticism of thepiratebay is brushed aside, and now top stories are new hollywood movies, complete with +5 modded links to copyrighted material.
I thought bit-torrent was only used for free speech and linux distros?
+5 hyprocrites
Well if you want better movies you need to pay to see ones you like.
The slashdot crowd always says movies suck, alongside bashing the MPAA and proudly defending their right to torrent everything.
newsflash: Movies are made for people who *pay* to see them. if you don't pay, the movies are not aimed at you, so don't act amazed when you don't like them.
Bigfishgames make tens of millions of dollars a year.
The casual games industry is 2D and worth billions.
Yup I'm Soooooooooo worried that 2D games can't support a lone developer...
unlike most AAA games companies, my company is profitable.
I guess you won't be buying games ever again then.
The budgets peaked a few years ago.
Amazingly, games can be fun without having cost more than last years games.
I disagree.
To get quality art in 3D is hugely expensive, and pushes the system requirements through the roof.
I use 3D spaceship models rendered as sprites for my next game. They are hugely high poly, yet I rendre them using 2 quads.
You can't get the same effect in 3D without rendering at least 30,000 times as many polys. It also means the entire ship (not just the bit facing the camera) needs to be modelled and textured.
I've worked on 3D games and 2D games. 3D gobbles up tons of CPU and GPU time and involves horrendously huge teams to get decent visual quality.
Show me the 2D games companies that are struggling. Popcap maybe? BigFishgames? Both making millions, whilst the big 3D blockbuster publishers struggle.
I'm not blindly doing anything. Yes katamari is better in 3D, but are all game better in 3D?
Most RTS games that use 3D even lock the camera into isometric mode deliberately because 2D is easier for us to control than 3D.
You could make World of Goo in 3D. Would it run on peoples laptops? (not so well I reckon). Would my mom and dad find it as easy to play? Not in a million years.
Would it have cost more to make?
Definitely.
The solution is 2D games
Seriously.
The obsession with 3D pushes every cost through the roof. 2D artwork (in a lot of cases) is tons cheaper, and can be made to work on very low end machines. Good luck getting crysis to run on a laptop that didn't cost an arm and a leg, but it's very difficult to balls up a 2D game enough for it not to run on an integrated chipset.
The crysis devs even admitted that their main problem was a game that wouldn't run on so many PCs. 2D games not only run everywhere, but they are easier to understand from a control POV to newcomers to gaming.
They also reduce support costs a lot because if you aren't using cutting edge 3D techniques, you are less likely to get incompatibilities and inconsistencies with video card drivers and hardware.
Of course not all genres can work in 2D, but time and time again we see 3D bump-mapped pixel-shaded shinyness applied to games where it just isn't necessary.
Imagine World Of Goo in 3D. Would it be a better game? Of course not, it would be horrid, and would lack the charm and individual art style that makes a game like that so fresh and awesome.
Journalists and gamers need to finally realise that 3D, and high dynamic range lighting are not what makes a game fun. They make it expensive, and they can make it more immersive, but they do not contribute automatically to making a game fun, which is what it's all about.
wow.
this is insightful?
This truly is the end of days.
WalMart filled their shelves with food. therefore they are to blame for me shoplifting...
LOST OF CAPITALS makes your ARGUMENT ALMOST SEEM SENSIBLE!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111
Showing the true intellectual side of the flimsy "music should be free" debate I see...
Its people like you, who think you are born with an entitlement to take other peoples work for free who 'don't get it' and really piss everyone else (who open their wallets and pay for the entertainment you swipe for nothing) off.
Wow what infantile drivel.
So in the medium term, when music is copyable and food is not, thieves like you will just swipe the music and not give a flying fuck how the musicians afford their food?
People like you are fucking shameful. At least shoplifters admit what they do is wrong.
TPB is about making money, building up a global brand and making cash from ad-impressions.
Don't tell me people actually swallow this "sticking it to the man" drivel?
couldn't agree more but here on torrentfreak (sorry slashdot) pirates and kids stealing music are heroes, and people who actually make stuff are scum.
In an amusing side issue, there is a lot of whining from the 'heroes' that all music and movies suck. This is obviously because the guys who made the music and movies they like now flip burgers.
They don't comprehend this, so they end up torrenting 'serenity' with one hand, whilst signing on-line petitions for a sequel that will never happen with the other hand.
One day, they might make the connection.
Only a tirade of abuse like this, basically telling the people who make entertainment to go fuck themselves, gets modded insightful here at slashdot.
Telling people who make music and movies that they should fuck off and flip burgers if they can't pay the bills when everyone takes their work for free.
and you wonder why artists don't give a fuck about the attitudes of pirates?
Even shoplifters have the common fucking decency not to abuse the store manager and laugh in their face, so I guess the anti-copyright crowd are a step below even that.
Let me ask you this:
If you are prepared to pay the people who grow your food for their work, why are you not prepared to pay the people who entertain you?
Face facts, its because you've found a way to steal one commodity and not the other.
Any other rationalisation is just bullshit.
what bit confuses you?
if you are involved in civil disobedience you do nOT try and hide your actions.
if you do, the authorities canot distinguish your 'civil disobedience' from just being a common criminal.
This is not hard to understand surely?
99.9999% of people pirating stuff online sre not trying to change the law. They are trying to wangle out of paying for stuff. 99% of those people lie even to themselves about their true motives.
I guess its not nice to realise you are a cheapass, so its understandable.
Laughable.
If TPB is knowingly being used to faciliatet copyright infringement it should be shut down and the owners jailed. This is not rocket science.
If your business is being used 99% to launder money for drug dealers, the fact that 1% of your trade might be legit shouldn't keep you out of jail.
3 guys distributing linux distros does not justify tens of millions leeching copyeighted content from the rest of us.
well said, but enjoy the bullshit rationalisations you will get as repleis here, as people try desperately to find some way to justify copyright infringement...