it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies are still pretending there is nothing wrong with distributing other peoples hard work for free, whilst coining it in from advertsiing.
I agree! forget guantanomo bay and water boarding. And forget illegal wars, landmines, depleted uranium and huge backhanders to guys like the enron bosses. The REAL cause for outrage in the USA is whether or not people cant copy DVDs. Well said!!!
wow. bit of a big chip on the shoulder there. Let me explain why you do not earn the same amount of money as the *evil* musicians and J K rowling.
1) You do. 99.9% of people working in games/software/music/movies/books/tv make pretty much the average wage or less. This includes people who are actually working for royalties and running their own business. Even those who *do* earn more than you in royalties end up with less, because they pay accountancy fees and business taxes first, then have to (probably) rent some premises, and pay for stuff like computers, office equipment, pensions etc, all of which come with your job.
2) They are being compensated for risk. Unlike bankers, who get bailed out by the govt when they fuck up, Nobody bails you out if your movie/album/book flops. These people are taking a huge amount of risk with their money. Attenboriuygh remortgaged his house to help pay to make ghandi, and he had already made it at that point. George Lucas risked everything he owned several times in his career to help fund his movies. People making creative works do not get a salary all the time they are working on those products. Its a huge fucking gamble, and often you lose. The free market compensates people for risk, as a rational market should do.
My best mate is a physicist. He earns a salary, and no doubt he is also envious of madonna and bill gates. He, however mnuch much preferes the security of a guaranteed salary each month, as I presume you do. Will you work for the next 3 years for free, betting 3 years income on the success of your maths work over that period?
Most people will not. It's lately become fashionable to whine about this, as a pretext for getting free stuff.
I've thought about it tons. the idea that you take other peoples work for free is just hippy bullshit dreamt up by kids who are yet to get a real job, and parroted by thieves who think they can justify theft with lots of hand waving.
Sorry but you cant type as much as you want. it really is that fucking simple.
I for one am glad led zeppelin recorded as much stuff as they did, as did the beatles, rather than them squeezing in the odd album inbetween working as plumbers.
Your philosophy of hating the commercial world is that of a child. Its a silly rationalisation ton justify being a tight ass and leeching off the honest people who pay for content to be produced. At least have the balls to admit it.
if people would rather I didn't make games, why are they wasting their time pirating them? if all commercial games suck and shouldn't be made why do hundreds of thousands of people torrent commercial games?
This is bullshit. People are leeches and tight asses who want free stuff. Any further attempt to explain defending TPB is laughable.
I take over 90% of the sale price from a sale of my product, the other 9% ish goes to a business partner who handles the payments. Sorry to ruin your justifications for piracy. I'm quite sure you scrutinise the record contracts of each artist before deciding to steal their stuff right?
hurrah. it will be so great when everyone can take all the media they want for free, without compensating the authors a single penny.
So great for people who enjoy content made pre 2009 anyway, Who the fuck is going to work 40 hours a week for free when they have bills to pay?
I hope all you people rooting for your Swedish heroes don't want any new content to be made after your heroes win. Unless you are going to get off your asses and make/fund it yourselves.
This isn't about saving lives. It's about getting government money. Stuff like this sounds sexy. The generation of people in government office who hand out cash for this grew up watching sci-fi movies, and this sounds cool. They even get to try on the armour at sales pitches I reckon. Probably get to take a few souvenir photos. Compare that with very dry presentations saying more steel is needed to reinforce the armour on military vehicles. It sounds dull, and it doesn't get funding.
This is nothing new. Governments make emotional decisions in knee jerk response, or decisions that have good photo-ops. The press makes things worse by reporting sound bites, or stories with good photos, and ignoring the important stuff.
you still think that you are magically fucking entitled to other peoples hard work though don't you? People oustide the pathetic slashdot groupthink bullshit have a word for your attitude:
freeloading.
I hope the piratebay hippies enjoy their time in court.
"What about downloading stuff that the local television networks are too cheap to buy themselves"
If you want to see movies that arent on TV yet, buy the DVD. Or rent it. or borrow a friends DVD. Don't think you are magically entitled to have every piece of entertainment delivered to your eyeballs for free the minute its finished.
Your last statement is just "everybody does it". Hardly an excuse. Is that how you judge how to behave in society? You just do what everyone else does, regardless of the harm your actions have on others?
analyse the stats. Do a version with hints and one without. if more people buy the full copy of the hint one, the it obviously added value to the game. if not, then your fears are right and the hints ruin the fun. Nothing beats hard data, even when it comes to game design.
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it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies are still pretending there is nothing wrong with distributing other peoples hard work for free, whilst coining it in from advertsiing.
the government is enforcing contract law, as it does EVERYWHERE. You arent fucking forced to buy Windows. Go use linux and stop bitching.
You are like the kid who decides to go see a movie he will hate, so he can complain the movie sucks.
Some people just like whining
I agree! forget guantanomo bay and water boarding. And forget illegal wars, landmines, depleted uranium and huge backhanders to guys like the enron bosses.
The REAL cause for outrage in the USA is whether or not people cant copy DVDs.
Well said!!!
Welcome to slashdot, a perspective-free zone
did you even read my post?
or is this some knee jerk attempt at saying communism is better?
enjoy your communist movies. The battleship potemkin gets pretty dull pretty quick.
we wont make the stuff.
enjoy last years stuff kid.
wow. bit of a big chip on the shoulder there. Let me explain why you do not earn the same amount of money as the *evil* musicians and J K rowling.
1) You do.
99.9% of people working in games/software/music/movies/books/tv make pretty much the average wage or less. This includes people who are actually working for royalties and running their own business. Even those who *do* earn more than you in royalties end up with less, because they pay accountancy fees and business taxes first, then have to (probably) rent some premises, and pay for stuff like computers, office equipment, pensions etc, all of which come with your job.
2) They are being compensated for risk.
Unlike bankers, who get bailed out by the govt when they fuck up, Nobody bails you out if your movie/album/book flops.
These people are taking a huge amount of risk with their money. Attenboriuygh remortgaged his house to help pay to make ghandi, and he had already made it at that point. George Lucas risked everything he owned several times in his career to help fund his movies.
People making creative works do not get a salary all the time they are working on those products. Its a huge fucking gamble, and often you lose. The free market compensates people for risk, as a rational market should do.
My best mate is a physicist. He earns a salary, and no doubt he is also envious of madonna and bill gates. He, however mnuch much preferes the security of a guaranteed salary each month, as I presume you do. Will you work for the next 3 years for free, betting 3 years income on the success of your maths work over that period?
Most people will not. It's lately become fashionable to whine about this, as a pretext for getting free stuff.
I've thought about it tons. the idea that you take other peoples work for free is just hippy bullshit dreamt up by kids who are yet to get a real job, and parroted by thieves who think they can justify theft with lots of hand waving.
Sorry but you cant type as much as you want. it really is that fucking simple.
what planet are you on?
How is entertainment made then? by space aliens?
I for one am glad led zeppelin recorded as much stuff as they did, as did the beatles, rather than them squeezing in the odd album inbetween working as plumbers.
Your philosophy of hating the commercial world is that of a child. Its a silly rationalisation ton justify being a tight ass and leeching off the honest people who pay for content to be produced. At least have the balls to admit it.
wow.
if people would rather I didn't make games, why are they wasting their time pirating them? if all commercial games suck and shouldn't be made why do hundreds of thousands of people torrent commercial games?
This is bullshit. People are leeches and tight asses who want free stuff. Any further attempt to explain defending TPB is laughable.
I take over 90% of the sale price from a sale of my product, the other 9% ish goes to a business partner who handles the payments.
Sorry to ruin your justifications for piracy. I'm quite sure you scrutinise the record contracts of each artist before deciding to steal their stuff right?
Wow. what drivel
couldn't agree more, but the average slashdotter performs amazing mental and moral backflips if it lets him leech free music and movies.
those shipments pay the tolls, that fee gets added to the store price. whats your point?
hurrah. it will be so great when everyone can take all the media they want for free, without compensating the authors a single penny.
So great for people who enjoy content made pre 2009 anyway, Who the fuck is going to work 40 hours a week for free when they have bills to pay?
I hope all you people rooting for your Swedish heroes don't want any new content to be made after your heroes win. Unless you are going to get off your asses and make/fund it yourselves.
wow.
So people who use the roads to travel 200 miles a day should pay no more than someone who uses the local roads to go 2 miles a day?
Why are the local people who pop to the shops twice a week in their cars subsidising your intercity highways?
Yes, because there's no way it would get false positives on light flashes. The guy in the suit will look like he is auditioning for riverdance.
This isn't about saving lives. It's about getting government money.
Stuff like this sounds sexy. The generation of people in government office who hand out cash for this grew up watching sci-fi movies, and this sounds cool. They even get to try on the armour at sales pitches I reckon. Probably get to take a few souvenir photos.
Compare that with very dry presentations saying more steel is needed to reinforce the armour on military vehicles. It sounds dull, and it doesn't get funding.
This is nothing new. Governments make emotional decisions in knee jerk response, or decisions that have good photo-ops. The press makes things worse by reporting sound bites, or stories with good photos, and ignoring the important stuff.
so some evil megacorps have pushed the boundaries of the contract, so you violate EVERYONE'S copyright.
How is that justified?
Some big retail stores act like criminals. But I don't steal from my corner shop in retribution.
HELLO LITTLE KIDDIE! Why dont you try using the word MORON AND TYPE IN TEH CAPITALS!!!!
Grow up kiddie.
its pretty easy for someone to push a breadknife through your throat and steal your wallet.
Lets stop prosecuting violent muggers shall we?
What drivel.
you still think that you are magically fucking entitled to other peoples hard work though don't you? People oustide the pathetic slashdot groupthink bullshit have a word for your attitude:
freeloading.
I hope the piratebay hippies enjoy their time in court.
yawn.
more whining about *big media*.
if you dont like the content, dont buy it. Go for a walk. Jeez.
wow. three.
now list me the top 100 swedish movie companies.
good luck.
"What about downloading stuff that the local television networks are too cheap to buy themselves"
If you want to see movies that arent on TV yet, buy the DVD. Or rent it. or borrow a friends DVD.
Don't think you are magically entitled to have every piece of entertainment delivered to your eyeballs for free the minute its finished.
Your last statement is just "everybody does it". Hardly an excuse. Is that how you judge how to behave in society? You just do what everyone else does, regardless of the harm your actions have on others?
analyse the stats. Do a version with hints and one without. if more people buy the full copy of the hint one, the it obviously added value to the game. if not, then your fears are right and the hints ruin the fun.
Nothing beats hard data, even when it comes to game design.