Excellent post. isohunt do not actually require paper copies, only a very few, very arrogant, and very silly sites insist on that. ironically, one of them is google...
isohunt does respond to legitimate DMCA take-down requests sent by email. I know this to be true, as I have sent them some, and they complied no problem. I wish all bit-torrent sites were as responsible as them.
isn't there already a problem with too much crap from earlier missions in orbit? do we really need another chunk of metal whizzing around for the next million years? Tragic PR stunts should stay out of space.
well how can any price compete with your model of 'pirated then owned'. Even at $1 its still infinitely more expensive than just pirating it. The idea is to price it as reasonable value for money, not to compete with people prepared to break the law and pirate it. I think this is a bit too expensive, but not by much, I also guess that I can't get that same price here in the UK where (if its even offered) the price will be jacked way higher.
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superb post. People always associate unions with some cartoon like stereotype from 'I'm all right jack', but the reality doesn't have to be like that. When your employer sexually harrases you, bullies you, asks you to lie for him, asks you to do something illegal etc etc, THAT is when you realise that having a union on your side is a good thing.
As for people saying that unionising makes your work more expensive and will mean outsourcing. wise up. As a company owner, if I think I can outsource you to indie to make me more money I will. The few percentage points involved in unionising are trivial. IT jobs not in India are not in India for technical, cultural or practical reasons. The salary gap is already huge.
Excellent post. My better half works in research into BSE here in the UK, and I can assure you that the Brits are now absolutely paranoid about testing for it. British beef *is* by far the safest in the world, although that's a hollow boast because we had to learn the hard way, by practically wiping out an entire industry.
We are also nowhere near to even vaguely having a cure for this thing, or for that matter, a test that can reliably work on a live animal. Ignore the potential damage from BSE at your peril.
"the roads are publicly owned and the internets are privately owned. We have a problem and somebody needs to fix it or the economy will suffer."
Because large scale public investment is always so much faster, more adaptive to changing technology and better value for money than when private companies do it right?
That's certainly not the case here in the UK. I have no problem with paying on a usage basis for the internet. I have a popular website which I pay $175 a month to host. A mate of mine has a niche site which he gets free with his ADSL. Should we both be paying the same? or is it one rule for hosting and another for surfing? its still bandwidth regardless which direction it goes in.
nonsense. You do realise it is up to the copyright holder what permissions they grant right? Not all copyright holders are cackling billionaire bastards.
As an experiment pick a dozen living writers, email them and ask them if any of them object to granting permission for their books to be published on this project. I'd be amazed if every single one of them didn't say "hell yes".
Don't tarnish the 99% of sane copyright holders with the stupidity of the noisy 1%.
"I have YET to see a software company fail because of rampant copying... most people blame the quality."
looking glass made some of the best games ever mad,e also some of the most widely pirated. Are you going to say they went under because the Thief games sucked? if so, you are in a tiny minority of gamers.
your bank balance is an artificial construct too, as is your salary. But if a group of people decided arbitrarily to reduce your salary and bank balance to zero, would you be happy with that return to the 'natural state'?
creativity whose payback time is 3-5 years in total, sure. But if you have some huge mega project that is a fantastic idea but wont make money for 4 years, and wont make a profit till year 10, you just threw that entire thing away How many years did it take amazon to even turn a profit? let alone justify the initial investment. Not all business ideas turn a profit in a short space of time, and its just silly to try and restrict copyright to such a short period in order to somehow 'stick it to the man'.
The problem is patents, not copyright or IP. Totally different issue.
The world is full of people living off the work of their parents. There are literally millions of them. You *do* realize people leave millions of dollars, houses, company shares and other valuable things to their kids right?
wow. so who exactly is paying all the actors working on movies whilst they are in development? you? And you DO realize that not ALL actors are BILLIONAIRES right?
Of course you don't. you probably think everyone who makes movies,music, tv, games, software, or basically anything you fancy helping yourself to is a BILLIONAIRE. That's how you justify taking their work without compensation right?
There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the attitude of some big media companies. Posts like your just help convince content creators that everyone pirating content is delusional.
I was seriously impressed with the combat on horseback. When I tried the game, the rest of it was a bit of a clear work-in-progress (that may have changed now), but I've never seen horseback combat done as well as that.
yes I did, the amount of price comments surprised me, and the number of people for whom DRM was the ONLY factor, rather than just an excuse to justify other factors, was higher than expected.
to be honest that ad is there partly because otherwise the page looked horribly bleak and colorless. I know it still looks a bit grim.
The original question wasn't a big attempt at a crusade, in fact it was deliberately targeted just at people pirating *my* games. I could get a general view of piracy of photoshop and mp3s anywhere, I wanted more focused replies than that. A lot of general piracy arguments aren't applicable to me (lack of demos, CD checks etc), so I needed to find out more specific answers than that.
At the end of the day, this billion-dollar ceremony was entrusted to Microsoft Windows XP. We can all laugh that there was a BSOD, but I'm sure Microsoft will laugh at Mac and Linux, knowing that the system that got chosen was theirs, and not anyone else's.
show me a payment provider that integrates sending out license codes, emails and collects taxes and doesn't have fraud checking and occasional delays.
I'm serious, I use BMT because they are the LEAST intrusive and annoying for the customer.
Less than 1% of customers get any delay whatsoever, and BMT tell me its only if the card data isn't 100% as on the card AND they have a free email address that they stop it for manual review.
share stuff you made all you want. Nobody cares. Its when you share stuff other people worked hard to create, that we have a problem. Most people see that as blindingly obvious.
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"Its selfish to have any expectation of return when you create something that the world finds valuable"
congratulations, the most laughable crap I have ever read on this site this decade.
Excellent post. isohunt do not actually require paper copies, only a very few, very arrogant, and very silly sites insist on that. ironically, one of them is google...
isohunt does respond to legitimate DMCA take-down requests sent by email. I know this to be true, as I have sent them some, and they complied no problem.
I wish all bit-torrent sites were as responsible as them.
isn't there already a problem with too much crap from earlier missions in orbit? do we really need another chunk of metal whizzing around for the next million years?
Tragic PR stunts should stay out of space.
well how can any price compete with your model of 'pirated then owned'. Even at $1 its still infinitely more expensive than just pirating it.
The idea is to price it as reasonable value for money, not to compete with people prepared to break the law and pirate it.
I think this is a bit too expensive, but not by much, I also guess that I can't get that same price here in the UK where (if its even offered) the price will be jacked way higher.
superb post. People always associate unions with some cartoon like stereotype from 'I'm all right jack', but the reality doesn't have to be like that.
When your employer sexually harrases you, bullies you, asks you to lie for him, asks you to do something illegal etc etc, THAT is when you realise that having a union on your side is a good thing.
As for people saying that unionising makes your work more expensive and will mean outsourcing. wise up. As a company owner, if I think I can outsource you to indie to make me more money I will. The few percentage points involved in unionising are trivial. IT jobs not in India are not in India for technical, cultural or practical reasons. The salary gap is already huge.
maybe you could enlighten all us brain dead dorks how using a material like cardboard once and then throwing it in landfill is a great idea?
Excellent post. My better half works in research into BSE here in the UK, and I can assure you that the Brits are now absolutely paranoid about testing for it. British beef *is* by far the safest in the world, although that's a hollow boast because we had to learn the hard way, by practically wiping out an entire industry.
We are also nowhere near to even vaguely having a cure for this thing, or for that matter, a test that can reliably work on a live animal. Ignore the potential damage from BSE at your peril.
"the roads are publicly owned and the internets are privately owned. We have a problem and somebody needs to fix it or the economy will suffer."
Because large scale public investment is always so much faster, more adaptive to changing technology and better value for money than when private companies do it right?
That's certainly not the case here in the UK. I have no problem with paying on a usage basis for the internet. I have a popular website which I pay $175 a month to host. A mate of mine has a niche site which he gets free with his ADSL. Should we both be paying the same? or is it one rule for hosting and another for surfing? its still bandwidth regardless which direction it goes in.
nonsense. You do realise it is up to the copyright holder what permissions they grant right?
Not all copyright holders are cackling billionaire bastards.
As an experiment pick a dozen living writers, email them and ask them if any of them object to granting permission for their books to be published on this project. I'd be amazed if every single one of them didn't say "hell yes".
Don't tarnish the 99% of sane copyright holders with the stupidity of the noisy 1%.
"I have YET to see a software company fail because of rampant copying... most people blame the quality."
looking glass made some of the best games ever mad,e also some of the most widely pirated. Are you going to say they went under because the Thief games sucked? if so, you are in a tiny minority of gamers.
your bank balance is an artificial construct too, as is your salary. But if a group of people decided arbitrarily to reduce your salary and bank balance to zero, would you be happy with that return to the 'natural state'?
creativity whose payback time is 3-5 years in total, sure. But if you have some huge mega project that is a fantastic idea but wont make money for 4 years, and wont make a profit till year 10, you just threw that entire thing away
How many years did it take amazon to even turn a profit? let alone justify the initial investment. Not all business ideas turn a profit in a short space of time, and its just silly to try and restrict copyright to such a short period in order to somehow 'stick it to the man'.
The problem is patents, not copyright or IP. Totally different issue.
The world is full of people living off the work of their parents. There are literally millions of them.
You *do* realize people leave millions of dollars, houses, company shares and other valuable things to their kids right?
wow.
so who exactly is paying all the actors working on movies whilst they are in development? you?
And you DO realize that not ALL actors are BILLIONAIRES right?
Of course you don't. you probably think everyone who makes movies,music, tv, games, software, or basically anything you fancy helping yourself to is a BILLIONAIRE. That's how you justify taking their work without compensation right?
There are legitimate reasons to be critical of the attitude of some big media companies. Posts like your just help convince content creators that everyone pirating content is delusional.
I'm told Democracy 2 works with wine, for what its worth.
I was seriously impressed with the combat on horseback. When I tried the game, the rest of it was a bit of a clear work-in-progress (that may have changed now), but I've never seen horseback combat done as well as that.
yes I did, the amount of price comments surprised me, and the number of people for whom DRM was the ONLY factor, rather than just an excuse to justify other factors, was higher than expected.
to be honest that ad is there partly because otherwise the page looked horribly bleak and colorless. I know it still looks a bit grim.
The original question wasn't a big attempt at a crusade, in fact it was deliberately targeted just at people pirating *my* games. I could get a general view of piracy of photoshop and mp3s anywhere, I wanted more focused replies than that. A lot of general piracy arguments aren't applicable to me (lack of demos, CD checks etc), so I needed to find out more specific answers than that.
At the end of the day, this billion-dollar ceremony was entrusted to Microsoft Windows XP.
We can all laugh that there was a BSOD, but I'm sure Microsoft will laugh at Mac and Linux, knowing that the system that got chosen was theirs, and not anyone else's.
Hardly a victory for the anti-Microsoft lobby.
show me a payment provider that integrates sending out license codes, emails and collects taxes and doesn't have fraud checking and occasional delays.
I'm serious,
I use BMT because they are the LEAST intrusive and annoying for the customer.
Less than 1% of customers get any delay whatsoever, and BMT tell me its only if the card data isn't 100% as on the card AND they have a free email address that they stop it for manual review.
its in TFA. :D
www.positech.co.uk
and the link in the summary too
There are mac demos of all the games at
www.redmarblegames.com
I need to make this fact clearer on my own site,
Cheers
(RMG do the ports for me).
FWIW, Democracy 2 and Rock Legend are now on impulse:
https://store.stardock.com/application/kudosrl
https://store.stardock.com/product.aspx?productid=ESD-IMP-W025
share stuff you made all you want. Nobody cares. Its when you share stuff other people worked hard to create, that we have a problem.
Most people see that as blindingly obvious.
I make singleplayer PC games. Can you explain to me how abandoning copyright makes me better off?
I hear these claims a lot. They generally come from people who aren't the ones risking their livelihood on an unproven business model.