Errrr. there is no law saying I can't change careers. I used to be a carpenter for fucks sake. If people refuse to pay for games, I'll change career again. What part of this isn't clear?
why do I have to buy my house before I live in it? Why do I have to buy my laptop before I get to take it home and play games on it Why did I have to pay for my holiday before I got on the plane?
WTF is wrong with people that they think they have a RIGHT to enjoy other peoples work for free, and then consider if they feel generous enough, they might flip them a few cents later. Is that how YOU get paid?
As a game developer that does not pull any of that shit, if you have the attitude that it means you should pirate ALL games from ALL developers, where is my incentive to try and meet pirates half way?
If pirates treat all developers as evil corporate scum, why are they then surprised that developers adopt the same attitude in reverse?
If people are foolish to not pirate, them I'm foolish to keep making games for the PC. So I'll go work as a plumber instead. great solution...
I can plant my own apple tree sure, and you can buy a guitar and record your own music. the only problem happens if you assume you have a right to HIS apples. The fact that 99% of people are too lazy to make their own music just goes to show that they are getting some added value by getting that music from someone else. quite why the value of that music automatically deteriorates after X years of its composition eludes me.
Why not artists. What makes an artist work more valuable than mine ?
Nothing. And 99% of recording artists will earn WAY WAY WAY less than a typical software developer. I've been both. Code pays better. Fuck it, McDonalds pays better. You realise there is such a thing as an exception to a rule?
They already get compensated millions of times for their work. Hello if you spend say 10% of you're 20 million dollar income for a pension you will never in you're life ever again need money.
yes because EVERYONE who EVER owned ANY copyright has earned millions from it. What fucking drivel. Most royalty checks are too small to bother cashing. very few people have a nice supplementary income from it. a trivial percentage are wealthy from it, and that's the only number anyone on slashdot ever mentions.
You might as well treble taxation on programmers because of Larry and Sergeys income. It makes as much sense
you got a salary i presume? A salary paid no doubt from a bank loan by the company. They HOPE and RISK that the long term profits from the code will pay back the debt. I don't see you offering to remortgage your house for them when the company started so they didn't need the loan. The royalties are long term payback on capital investment. You were the capital investment, and your involvement was risk free, hence your guaranteed salary for the work, and your lower overall potential income from it. Whats the problem?
You buy land and build a house. That house generates rent for the next ten thousand years.
You DO realise that when people are earning royalties it's because they were not paid for the original work in creating the item right? Slashdot is full of bitter, resentful geeks who think its EASY to make BILLIONS if you are a recording artist. So why the fuck don't YOU give up your job, live on food scraps for twenty years and learn to sing?
I think if the 60 million want to enjoy the copyrighted works they have to pay for them, in the same way that if I want to enjoy my local farmers apples, I have to buy them, despite the fact that the evil corporate scumbag planted those apple trees YEARS AGO.
BTW, the land my house was built on is owned by someone who inherited from someone who inherited it from someone else. This goes back over a hundred years now, and yet the land has not gone back into public ownership. Clearly this is evil and I should be able to stop paying rent now right?
They push their core ideas such as integrity, freedom of expression and freedom to fileshare copyrighted works
I just choked on my morning coffee. How is it a sign of integrity that you can show absolutely zero fucking respect whatsoever for the fact that other people have worked long and hard to create something, being paid absolutely fuck-all over that time period to do it. If you work for 6 months to build a hosue, you have your hosue for the rest of your life and then some. If you spend six months writinga novel, apparently you are just some gullible dumbass whose work si now free for everyone.
And the kids in 'the pirate party!!' (gimme a break) think this is INTEGRITY?
Pathetic. But I'm sure I;'ll get modded to oblivion. Anyone who cast a doubt on peoples GOD GIVEN RIGHT to take all digital information for free is considered a leper at slashdot.
You may now resume making wisecracks about all musicians being billionaires to make yourselves feel better about theft.
you keep ignoring the game. I'm in a political party and financially contribute. I've even delivered leaflets for them, write letters on behalf of them, debate issues on-line and make my voice heard.
You keep watching TV. It just means it's easier for people like me to get things changed the way we want. You would be amazed how FEW people it takes just writing letters or showing up at a politicians door to change their opinions. That's because 99.9% of you just watch American idol and don't even care.
I love the idea of SSDs, but mainly that's because I assume they are totally silent, compared with the scratchy noise of a normal drive. However, there are other concerns:
1) are they going to reduce the heat output of my laptop, or raise it?
2) are they going to make my laptop lighter or heavier?
The holy grail for me is a lightweight. quiet laptop that doesn't burn my legs. Do SSDs take us nearer that goal?
tbh if we could get an O/S that didn't do much disk thrashing all the time, maybe this wouldn't be an issue. Does linux do noticeably less disk accessing than vista? and how easily can i get a sony vaio to run limux?
what bullshit. why the fuck do you assume that solar power requires tons of power lines to be built? are you under the impression that the sun only shines in remote areas? I can put solar on MY roof, and ZERO transmission line losses. The exact opposite is true of nuclear, which MUST be by the coast and MUST be far from populated areas. This is the worst argument for nuclear and against renewables I've ever read, and that's saying something.
So Ray, how much can I earn and still be exempt from being prosecuted, because apparently according to you, if I'm poor, I can steal all I want. Shouldn't you fuck off to Cuba or North Korea with your attitude?
Seriously. you act like this in court? You make Jack Thmopson look like a real lawyer./ What a jackass.
Apparently everyone who disagrees with your myopic singlkeminded bullshit view of all copyright infringers being saints must be disrepectful?
I don't support the RIAA or MPAA, but at least they are supposudly trying to get financial compensation for content creators (even if those creators never see the money). You, on the other hand make a living from whipping up hysteria because SHOCK HORROR! someone without 100% health has been accused of infringing copyright.
If I was falsely accused of copyright infringement I'd want a REAL lawyer. Not some slashdot groupie who would splutter "But she's not well your honour! Surely that means she is teh innocent!!!!"
You are hysterical. Its sad that you take money from people for your 'professional' advice.
So who actually keeps the content creators in business? the people who share the copy they shared of someone who shared it from someone?
People who make stuff have bills to pay. Those bills are paid by selling content to people who actually buy it. Without those buyers, you cannot 'share' fuck all.
Re-read until you comprehend this basic fucking economics.
I agree. we need more people who try and drag someone's illness into a court case to get sympathy from the public, whilst knowing as a lawyer, it has fuck all to do with the court case or the rights and wrongs of it. What a fucking hero!!!
"I have a lot more experience seeing the pain in the eyes, and hearing the pain in the voices, of the victims of this terror campaign"
Are you talking about your time in NAM?
Oh no... its your time charging people to represent them in court when they are suspected of downloading copyrighted music. For a moment, you got a bit lost in your Saving Private Ryan DVD box set and forgot you are a lawyer earning good money arguing with other lawyers. take a reality pill.
"-yes defendant's illness makes it more morally opprobrious to sue her"
It scares me that people like you claim to be lawyers.
Its even scarier if people actually rely on bullshit like that to make it past a judge without spontaneous hysterical laughter.
If someone is guilty of copyright infringement then they are guilty. You can't pick and choose who to sue, without totally destroying the concept of people being equal under the law. You do understand that concept right ray?
You dork. So you think that if someone is ill or disabled they are ABOVE THE LAW?
Its sickens me that you are allowed to practice as a lawyer. You clearly have fuck all understanding of the concept of everyone being equal under the law.
wtf? So if someone robs me, I have to ask for details of their medical history before it's acceptable for me to take legal action to recover my losses?
And you claim to be a LAWYER?
"It is not okay in the America I come from."
Is that the America where even your lawyer starts talking about your medical history in a pathetic attempt to detract attention away from the actual facts of the case? tell me what other crimes you can have waved aside if I happen to be ill Ray, give us all a list.
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Errrr. there is no law saying I can't change careers. I used to be a carpenter for fucks sake. If people refuse to pay for games, I'll change career again.
What part of this isn't clear?
so its my fault? and I don't use DRM, and I can go fuck msyelf?
You sum up a lot of PC gamers these days. and you sum up why nobody wants to make gems for you any more.
why do I have to buy my house before I live in it?
Why do I have to buy my laptop before I get to take it home and play games on it
Why did I have to pay for my holiday before I got on the plane?
WTF is wrong with people that they think they have a RIGHT to enjoy other peoples work for free, and then consider if they feel generous enough, they might flip them a few cents later.
Is that how YOU get paid?
As a game developer that does not pull any of that shit, if you have the attitude that it means you should pirate ALL games from ALL developers, where is my incentive to try and meet pirates half way?
If pirates treat all developers as evil corporate scum, why are they then surprised that developers adopt the same attitude in reverse?
If people are foolish to not pirate, them I'm foolish to keep making games for the PC. So I'll go work as a plumber instead.
great solution...
I thought osamas family made money from construction?
I can plant my own apple tree sure, and you can buy a guitar and record your own music. the only problem happens if you assume you have a right to HIS apples.
The fact that 99% of people are too lazy to make their own music just goes to show that they are getting some added value by getting that music from someone else.
quite why the value of that music automatically deteriorates after X years of its composition eludes me.
Why not artists. What makes an artist work more valuable than mine ?
Nothing. And 99% of recording artists will earn WAY WAY WAY less than a typical software developer. I've been both. Code pays better. Fuck it, McDonalds pays better. You realise there is such a thing as an exception to a rule?
They already get compensated millions of times for their work. Hello if you spend say 10% of you're 20 million dollar income for a pension you will never in you're life ever again need money.
yes because EVERYONE who EVER owned ANY copyright has earned millions from it.
What fucking drivel. Most royalty checks are too small to bother cashing. very few people have a nice supplementary income from it. a trivial percentage are wealthy from it, and that's the only number anyone on slashdot ever mentions.
You might as well treble taxation on programmers because of Larry and Sergeys income. It makes as much sense
you got a salary i presume?
A salary paid no doubt from a bank loan by the company. They HOPE and RISK that the long term profits from the code will pay back the debt.
I don't see you offering to remortgage your house for them when the company started so they didn't need the loan.
The royalties are long term payback on capital investment. You were the capital investment, and your involvement was risk free, hence your guaranteed salary for the work, and your lower overall potential income from it.
Whats the problem?
construction.
You buy land and build a house. That house generates rent for the next ten thousand years.
You DO realise that when people are earning royalties it's because they were not paid for the original work in creating the item right?
Slashdot is full of bitter, resentful geeks who think its EASY to make BILLIONS if you are a recording artist.
So why the fuck don't YOU give up your job, live on food scraps for twenty years and learn to sing?
Not so tempting is it
cool.
what other industries shall we cap the earnings of?
all of them?
isn't that a sort of chinese-russian-north-korea kind of mentality?
I think if the 60 million want to enjoy the copyrighted works they have to pay for them, in the same way that if I want to enjoy my local farmers apples, I have to buy them, despite the fact that the evil corporate scumbag planted those apple trees YEARS AGO.
BTW, the land my house was built on is owned by someone who inherited from someone who inherited it from someone else. This goes back over a hundred years now, and yet the land has not gone back into public ownership. Clearly this is evil and I should be able to stop paying rent now right?
They push their core ideas such as integrity, freedom of expression and freedom to fileshare copyrighted works
I just choked on my morning coffee. How is it a sign of integrity that you can show absolutely zero fucking respect whatsoever for the fact that other people have worked long and hard to create something, being paid absolutely fuck-all over that time period to do it.
If you work for 6 months to build a hosue, you have your hosue for the rest of your life and then some. If you spend six months writinga novel, apparently you are just some gullible dumbass whose work si now free for everyone.
And the kids in 'the pirate party!!' (gimme a break) think this is INTEGRITY?
Pathetic. But I'm sure I;'ll get modded to oblivion. Anyone who cast a doubt on peoples GOD GIVEN RIGHT to take all digital information for free is considered a leper at slashdot.
You may now resume making wisecracks about all musicians being billionaires to make yourselves feel better about theft.
you keep ignoring the game. I'm in a political party and financially contribute. I've even delivered leaflets for them, write letters on behalf of them, debate issues on-line and make my voice heard.
You keep watching TV. It just means it's easier for people like me to get things changed the way we want. You would be amazed how FEW people it takes just writing letters or showing up at a politicians door to change their opinions. That's because 99.9% of you just watch American idol and don't even care.
I love the idea of SSDs, but mainly that's because I assume they are totally silent, compared with the scratchy noise of a normal drive. However, there are other concerns:
1) are they going to reduce the heat output of my laptop, or raise it?
2) are they going to make my laptop lighter or heavier?
The holy grail for me is a lightweight. quiet laptop that doesn't burn my legs. Do SSDs take us nearer that goal?
tbh if we could get an O/S that didn't do much disk thrashing all the time, maybe this wouldn't be an issue. Does linux do noticeably less disk accessing than vista? and how easily can i get a sony vaio to run limux?
what bullshit. why the fuck do you assume that solar power requires tons of power lines to be built? are you under the impression that the sun only shines in remote areas?
I can put solar on MY roof, and ZERO transmission line losses. The exact opposite is true of nuclear, which MUST be by the coast and MUST be far from populated areas.
This is the worst argument for nuclear and against renewables I've ever read, and that's saying something.
So Ray, how much can I earn and still be exempt from being prosecuted, because apparently according to you, if I'm poor, I can steal all I want.
Shouldn't you fuck off to Cuba or North Korea with your attitude?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Seriously. you act like this in court? You make Jack Thmopson look like a real lawyer./
What a jackass.
Apparently everyone who disagrees with your myopic singlkeminded bullshit view of all copyright infringers being saints must be disrepectful?
I don't support the RIAA or MPAA, but at least they are supposudly trying to get financial compensation for content creators (even if those creators never see the money). You, on the other hand make a living from whipping up hysteria because SHOCK HORROR! someone without 100% health has been accused of infringing copyright.
If I was falsely accused of copyright infringement I'd want a REAL lawyer. Not some slashdot groupie who would splutter "But she's not well your honour! Surely that means she is teh innocent!!!!"
You are hysterical. Its sad that you take money from people for your 'professional' advice.
what laughable drivel.
so you accept that the happy clappy bullshit world of piracy means the only content we get is the childish scrawl of kids.
I agree with you.
lol
So who actually keeps the content creators in business? the people who share the copy they shared of someone who shared it from someone?
People who make stuff have bills to pay. Those bills are paid by selling content to people who actually buy it. Without those buyers, you cannot 'share' fuck all.
Re-read until you comprehend this basic fucking economics.
I agree. we need more people who try and drag someone's illness into a court case to get sympathy from the public, whilst knowing as a lawyer, it has fuck all to do with the court case or the rights and wrongs of it.
What a fucking hero!!!
"I have a lot more experience seeing the pain in the eyes, and hearing the pain in the voices, of the victims of this terror campaign"
Are you talking about your time in NAM?
Oh no... its your time charging people to represent them in court when they are suspected of downloading copyrighted music.
For a moment, you got a bit lost in your Saving Private Ryan DVD box set and forgot you are a lawyer earning good money arguing with other lawyers.
take a reality pill.
It is.
But if there's one thing that's become clear over the years, its that Ray Beckerman knows sod all about how to conduct himself as a lawyer.
"-yes defendant's illness makes it more morally opprobrious to sue her"
It scares me that people like you claim to be lawyers.
Its even scarier if people actually rely on bullshit like that to make it past a judge without spontaneous hysterical laughter.
If someone is guilty of copyright infringement then they are guilty. You can't pick and choose who to sue, without totally destroying the concept of people being equal under the law. You do understand that concept right ray?
You dork.
So you think that if someone is ill or disabled they are ABOVE THE LAW?
Its sickens me that you are allowed to practice as a lawyer.
You clearly have fuck all understanding of the concept of everyone being equal under the law.
wtf?
So if someone robs me, I have to ask for details of their medical history before it's acceptable for me to take legal action to recover my losses?
And you claim to be a LAWYER?
"It is not okay in the America I come from."
Is that the America where even your lawyer starts talking about your medical history in a pathetic attempt to detract attention away from the actual facts of the case?
tell me what other crimes you can have waved aside if I happen to be ill Ray, give us all a list.