99% of people stop playing a game before then. Seriously. I'm a pretty serious gamer, but most games I don't even finish, let alone keep playing long enough to outlast a windows install.
You think that producing intellectual property is an 'out of date business model'? if so, I hope you can provide for your kids with the earnings from your factory you own in China, because the more people like you try to justify widespread IP theft, the more the only people with any 'viable business model' are going to be those manufacturing physical goods, and you are delusional if the think the USA or Europe will beat china and Bangladesh at that.
Go peddle that "out of date business model" crap at torrentfreak or digg.
Sounds like you are not in a business that generates IP. Ip-production businesses like movies, music,software and games suffer way worse problems than the minuscule proportion of DMCA takedowns that are illegit or done in error. You can't even issue a DMCA notice without signing that you state under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate.
The ISP hosting the copyrighted data then deliberately drags their feet to remove the content, and once it's removed, its re-uploaded by the same user 5 minutes later. The problem with the DMCA is it does nothing to prevent the widespread abuse of anonymous filehosting. The DMCA needs teeth to actually prosecute uploaders, rather than just weak half-assed requirements that the ISPS get around to eventually removing content temporarily when they feel like it.
then you need to read more. people have a right to charge whatever the fuck they like for something they made. Thats it. It's people like you who seem to think you can abuse that right and take their work for free.
you missed out the words "and officials". is this the same woman who apparently pressured a state employee to sack someone to keep her relatives happy? but apparently she can see russia from her house, so its fine...
why is a government employee sending emails on govt business through a free email account? Why are taxpayers paying for the states computer infrastructure if she isn't using it? Of course something dodgy is going on.
how is being offered a license to use something (music) a tax? How about this revolutionary idea:
If you don't want to pay for music someone else created, Fucking make your own. Taking it without paying, then whining about getting caught and calling the free market price of something a 'tax' is just juvenile.
People who create stuff have the right to set the price. You have the right to buy it or not. You do not have the right to take it without payment. Pretending you do makes you look stupid.
"For example, without copyright, Neil Young would still be making music"
Yes. He would make the odd album now and then after he wasn't too tired from his day job in Wal Mart. Personally, I'm glad that talented creative people can make a living from it, and do it full time, but then I don't resent paying $15 for an album I might listen to for the rest of my life.
wrong again as usual. I never said all effort should be rewarded, but you enjoy your strawman kid. If you want farmers to plant those crops, you need to pay them. else they have no incentive to do so, and you go hungry. do you grasp the concept yet? Or do you still delude yourself that other people will run around providing goods and services top you for free because you have an automatic entitlement to everything?
so who planted them, and created the best conditions for them to grow? and fed them in some cases with the right mixtures of fertilizer etc? you? This all takes effort. And that effort needs to be rewarded, else there is no incentive to plant anything, and hence, you get an empty plate.
between amazon and google. GREAT!!!! then what's left will be given to the publisher who will make some deductions then give a small chunk to the developer.
Enough of this crap.
If you like a game, ANY game, then do the games industry a favour, and CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN. Many of the games on sale through online stores are also sold direct from the developer. If they offer that as an option, please take it. The developer will get between 2 and five times as much money from the sale. And you KNOW they got paid.
Middlemen are making more money from gaming than the developers who create them. This kind of bullshit is getting worse and worse.
"No artist ever starved because of copyright infringement. Many artists have starved because of obscurity."
they don't starve, they just get other jobs. take away copyright and a huge chunk of the next generation of writers, musicians, artists, software developers and songwriters will end up as plumbers, builders and accountants. Personally I'm glad pink floyd didn't spend their lives mixing cement and that Jimi hendrix wasn't an insurance salesman.
I see how that can happen. But given the tens of thousands of people killed in accidents each year, a huge chunk of which where speed was a factor, I'd say that this system has a net benefit to society in reducing teenage deaths.
tbh, I don't really think anyone who uses terms like 'authoritarian dickweed' sounds mature enough to even drive a car, let alone one that can break the speed limit...
Maybe we should do away with all those pesky interfering regulations that government gets involved with?
I'm happy to get a cheaper house because the cost-cutting builders don't care about fire regulations and building codes. And I'm not fussed if there is asbestos in the nursery. I'm happy about them putting all kinds of dubious 'mechanically recovered meat' products in my food, and I think it's better to not have cars that can travel 200 mph down the highway need any kind of safety checks.
While we are at it, lets abolish speed limits and all gun ownership restrictions. I'm sure the world will be a better place, because nobody in America would ever do anything completely insane if the government just let everyone get on with it.
we have a way of working out what benefit products provide to society. its called money. A free market values beneficial things higher than non beneficial things, all things being equal. Despite lots of ranting and the best efforts of karl marx, nobody has come up with a better, more efficient system to ensure the maximum overall utility is provided to the maximum number of people than capitalism.
If the creators of stuff are not rewarded for it to the exact tune that their works create utility, then there is an artificial distortion in the market that reduces overall utility. This is just simple maths. This is also why it's no good whining that there isn't another series of firefly if everyone pirates it (for example).
well done. every time a jerk like you posts drivel like this, it reinforces the view that anti-copyright campaigners are just idiots. keep up the good work kid.
if the content those people produced was not useful to society, why was demand for it so high amongst pirates that they risked breaking the law to get it?
This is the same old complaint that you pirate because mainstream content sucks. If it sucks, why pirate it?
jesus. Taking paid work makes you 'shamed'? Any 'community' who shuns someone and makes them an 'outcast' because they took a paying job that helps pay the bills mid credit-crunch is a 'community' you really don't need.
This isn't a job offer to work on the manufacture of landmines or shackles for child slaves. It's a job writing code.
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99% of people stop playing a game before then.
Seriously.
I'm a pretty serious gamer, but most games I don't even finish, let alone keep playing long enough to outlast a windows install.
You think that producing intellectual property is an 'out of date business model'?
if so, I hope you can provide for your kids with the earnings from your factory you own in China, because the more people like you try to justify widespread IP theft, the more the only people with any 'viable business model' are going to be those manufacturing physical goods, and you are delusional if the think the USA or Europe will beat china and Bangladesh at that.
Go peddle that "out of date business model" crap at torrentfreak or digg.
Sounds like you are not in a business that generates IP.
Ip-production businesses like movies, music,software and games suffer way worse problems than the minuscule proportion of DMCA takedowns that are illegit or done in error.
You can't even issue a DMCA notice without signing that you state under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate.
The ISP hosting the copyrighted data then deliberately drags their feet to remove the content, and once it's removed, its re-uploaded by the same user 5 minutes later.
The problem with the DMCA is it does nothing to prevent the widespread abuse of anonymous filehosting. The DMCA needs teeth to actually prosecute uploaders, rather than just weak half-assed requirements that the ISPS get around to eventually removing content temporarily when they feel like it.
then you need to read more. people have a right to charge whatever the fuck they like for something they made.
Thats it. It's people like you who seem to think you can abuse that right and take their work for free.
you missed out the words "and officials".
is this the same woman who apparently pressured a state employee to sack someone to keep her relatives happy?
but apparently she can see russia from her house, so its fine...
why is a government employee sending emails on govt business through a free email account?
Why are taxpayers paying for the states computer infrastructure if she isn't using it?
Of course something dodgy is going on.
*sigh*
You grew vegetables and you suck at doing it. big deal.
How does that justify you torrenting hollywood movies again?
I see. so every copyright holder on earth has to suffer because you don't like Bruce Springsteen?
how is being offered a license to use something (music) a tax?
How about this revolutionary idea:
If you don't want to pay for music someone else created, Fucking make your own.
Taking it without paying, then whining about getting caught and calling the free market price of something a 'tax' is just juvenile.
People who create stuff have the right to set the price. You have the right to buy it or not. You do not have the right to take it without payment.
Pretending you do makes you look stupid.
so you let people come along and take them?
Oh no, YOU ate them didn't you. That was your incentive.
Are you that fucking dense you cant grasp this simple concept?
"For example, without copyright, Neil Young would still be making music"
Yes. He would make the odd album now and then after he wasn't too tired from his day job in Wal Mart.
Personally, I'm glad that talented creative people can make a living from it, and do it full time, but then I don't resent paying $15 for an album I might listen to for the rest of my life.
as a cinema owner, if you don't respect my barriers and buy a ticket. I wont buy the movie rights, and the moviemaker will not make the movie.
You don't work for nothing, why expect anyone else to?
wrong again as usual. I never said all effort should be rewarded, but you enjoy your strawman kid.
If you want farmers to plant those crops, you need to pay them. else they have no incentive to do so, and you go hungry.
do you grasp the concept yet?
Or do you still delude yourself that other people will run around providing goods and services top you for free because you have an automatic entitlement to everything?
so who planted them, and created the best conditions for them to grow? and fed them in some cases with the right mixtures of fertilizer etc?
you?
This all takes effort. And that effort needs to be rewarded, else there is no incentive to plant anything, and hence, you get an empty plate.
"The revenue will be shared"
between amazon and google. GREAT!!!!
then what's left will be given to the publisher who will make some deductions then give a small chunk to the developer.
Enough of this crap.
If you like a game, ANY game, then do the games industry a favour, and CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN. Many of the games on sale through online stores are also sold direct from the developer. If they offer that as an option, please take it. The developer will get between 2 and five times as much money from the sale. And you KNOW they got paid.
Middlemen are making more money from gaming than the developers who create them. This kind of bullshit is getting worse and worse.
"No artist ever starved because of copyright infringement. Many artists have starved because of obscurity."
they don't starve, they just get other jobs.
take away copyright and a huge chunk of the next generation of writers, musicians, artists, software developers and songwriters will end up as plumbers, builders and accountants.
Personally I'm glad pink floyd didn't spend their lives mixing cement and that Jimi hendrix wasn't an insurance salesman.
I see how that can happen. But given the tens of thousands of people killed in accidents each year, a huge chunk of which where speed was a factor, I'd say that this system has a net benefit to society in reducing teenage deaths.
tbh, I don't really think anyone who uses terms like 'authoritarian dickweed' sounds mature enough to even drive a car, let alone one that can break the speed limit...
1) Only on slashdot will someone try and shoehorn DRM into a debate about car safety. What is this? torrentfreak?
2) What percentage of your car journeys involve speeding off a bridge during an earthquake?
3) given 2) happens, you are stuck behind the car in front anyway dude.
Maybe we should do away with all those pesky interfering regulations that government gets involved with?
I'm happy to get a cheaper house because the cost-cutting builders don't care about fire regulations and building codes. And I'm not fussed if there is asbestos in the nursery. I'm happy about them putting all kinds of dubious 'mechanically recovered meat' products in my food, and I think it's better to not have cars that can travel 200 mph down the highway need any kind of safety checks.
While we are at it, lets abolish speed limits and all gun ownership restrictions. I'm sure the world will be a better place, because nobody in America would ever do anything completely insane if the government just let everyone get on with it.
we have a way of working out what benefit products provide to society. its called money. A free market values beneficial things higher than non beneficial things, all things being equal.
Despite lots of ranting and the best efforts of karl marx, nobody has come up with a better, more efficient system to ensure the maximum overall utility is provided to the maximum number of people than capitalism.
If the creators of stuff are not rewarded for it to the exact tune that their works create utility, then there is an artificial distortion in the market that reduces overall utility. This is just simple maths.
This is also why it's no good whining that there isn't another series of firefly if everyone pirates it (for example).
well done. every time a jerk like you posts drivel like this, it reinforces the view that anti-copyright campaigners are just idiots.
keep up the good work kid.
if the content those people produced was not useful to society, why was demand for it so high amongst pirates that they risked breaking the law to get it?
This is the same old complaint that you pirate because mainstream content sucks. If it sucks, why pirate it?
if you take what you want anyway, where is your incentive to get a better job, earn more money and grow the economy?
Signed, someone who works hard, pays for everything he buys, and is sick of subsidizing leeches who expect the world to pay for their lifestyle.
jesus. Taking paid work makes you 'shamed'?
Any 'community' who shuns someone and makes them an 'outcast' because they took a paying job that helps pay the bills mid credit-crunch is a 'community' you really don't need.
This isn't a job offer to work on the manufacture of landmines or shackles for child slaves. It's a job writing code.
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