You are blaming nader? I thought gore won the popular vote. I don't care how its justified , if more people vote for candidate X, then candidate X should be president. That's called Democracy. The system you have, (like us in the UK) is some sick twisted joke that we try to pretend is democratic when it isn't. Even the new govt in iraq has proportional representation.
sorry but i don't read past the abuse in your first sentence. anyone who cannot discuss the issue without name calling is just beneath listening to, or desperate for attention. goodbye.
If he had, they would no longer have the book or the movie while it was in his possession. Whenever people criticise piracy, slashdot readers always say its fine because the original guy still has his copy. That is the point, you did not borrow something, you copies it, without the permission of the person who created it originally. That's both morally and legally wrong, unless you are a communist and believe in such things.
I no more have the 'right' to freely copy the game 'bioshock' without paying for it, than I do to go into my local store and take whatever food I want. Someone worked hard to produce both products, and if their products are good enough for me to want, I should compensate them fairly for their work. If I want to voluntarily go without the bioshock game for a week while I lend it to a friend that's fine, but if we both want to be free to enjoy the game unrestricted at our leisure, then we need to purchase two copies. This is entirely reasonable.
I'm glad you posted it, and glad you have been modded insightful. not everyone is taken in by the 'information should be free' bullshit that permeates slashdot. some of us appreciate that all content is produced by someone, and most of it is done by people trying to pay the bills, and that includes journalists.
Stop printing these regular fluff pieces form companies that SELL IN GAME ADS telling us how In-Game ads are so great. For fucks sake, what's next? studies from apple saying apple macs are cool? This isn't news, its the semi-regular pro-game-ads fluff bullshit. Stop printing this crap.
napoleon was short and unattractive. hitler was also short, and similarly not blessed with looks. As I recall, genghis Khan was not one for physical attractiveness either. Lenin was bald. As ir ecall the USA had a president in a wheelchair, and Churchill was pig-ugly. We had great leaders before we had TV debates and hair stylists.
you vote for someone based on their eyes and expressions? Here in the UK, we had a blind home secretary for a while. his eyes went crazy all the time. I guess he would have lost your vote? I'd be happy never to see a politician, or hear them, so I'm not influenced by such trivialities. What matters is what they propose, what they have done, and what they will do. Looks, Age, voice, style, I couldn't give a damn. the main job of a president or PM is to make the right decisions. You can be a 400 pound ugly son of a bitch who dribbles constantly and sounds like fozzy bear, but if you make the right decisions, I'll vote for you, and I won't care about your race, your gender or your looks.
An indie artist can sell his stuff direct on-line through his own website, using a payment provider like us indie game and shareware sellers do. They get to keep 100% of the money then. Why not do this?
Because the vast majority of people who want the music will just steal it, unless it has DRM. That's why. I still think they would be better off doing this, even given the losses due to piracy, but I have great sympathy with any artist that thinks its safer to let a big studio sell DRMed versions of their music than to try and rely on the honesty of internet users, which is a doomed strategy, as the thousands of illegal file sharing sites shows.
If you want to help small labels, and indie artists to shake off the shackles of the big companies that have dodgy practices, the best thing you can do is *BUY* their music when its for sale direct, and encourage them in that direct sales strategy. If you pirate movies / music / software / games before you even check to see if the provider is selling the product direct, affordably, and with demo products on offer, then you are making the case *for* DRM, not against it.
Every legitimate sale of digital content without DRM is a vote against DRM Every pirated piece of digital content is a vote for stricter DRM Every purchase direct from an artist / developer is a vote to cut out the publishers and record companies.
I skipped to the last arrogant insult in your drivel. you are taking something that isn't yours. you are a thief. deal with it kiddo. BTW I'm not even american, so can all your whining about supreme courts. Maybe if you ever grow up and actually create something, you will realise what drivel you used to parrot to people on slashdot.
most thieves agree that what they do is justified, otherwise they could not sleep at night. This is what thieves do. They even try and kid themselves that its morally ok to steal. have the guts to admit what you are doing. And yes, you are a victim of the pro-piracy, stick-it-to-the-man bullshit groupthink of slashdot. Well spotted.
you are taking something that isn't yours, and breaking the law to get it free. what part of this definition does no tsound like theft to you?
I see. so you want the music companies to be proved 100% right, in that some people are just thieves, and will pirate anything they can if given the chance, which is why they want to use DRM. Well done, you have just proved the RIAA correct, and shown why DRM is needed. Pirates on slashdot whine that DRM is making them pirate music, DRM gets removed, they pirate anyway. There is nothing anyone can possibly do to make the case for DRM better than that.
If you actually do think that artists should be paid for making music you enjoy (as they should), then you should pay for your music. if DRM was stopping you doing so before, you have no excuses now. Only vague hand waving about "teh evil MAFIAAAAA" can be used to justify taking copyrighted music now.
"I have found it increasingly annoying dealing with people who run pirated software because "they couldn't afford to pay for it". This "don't give it a second thought" mentality is, IMHO, something that should be reversed. Just because technology enables somebody to do something... it doesn't mean they should."
Amen brother. I am interested in your ideas and wish to subscribe etc etc,
the AC poster happily contributed a comment for free, which took him maybe 10 seconds. producing a hollywood movies takes hundreds of people years, and they do so as their main employment, to pay their bills and buy food and clothing. Surely you aren't trying to compare a web forum with the production of blockbuster movies and top-range software?
the pirate bay do it to make money: http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml 20,000 Euros a day, also estimated at 9 million dollars a year, in advertising.
your friends band may lose out, but a bunch of swedes who take his work and give it away for free are doing just fine. Nice people huh?
why do you pro-piracy, anti copyright buffoons always have to shout and swear on here? it just makes you look like six year olds. Learn some new words kiddies.
what evil piece of patent tomfoolery means that Nintendo did not invent the wii? I'm sure if you spent the last 4 years working on the design of the thing, you would be very hacked off to hear some random slashdot poster call you a 'so-called inventor'.
third party games are locked out of the system by design,. this is the console business model. This is how it works. If you want a completely free open gaming platform, you have the PC. The guys making consoles, and spending zillions on R&D do so on the basis that they can control licensing fees and selection of titles for that platform. This is their business plan, it is their product, and their right to do so. If I lay railway track, I can do so on the basis that I demand a licence fee from any trains company wishing to ship freight on my track. if everyone starts driving on the track, my business model collapses, and has been undermined. This is no different.
I am a big supporter of the PC for being an open platform, that is mod friendly, and open to 3rd party developers like myself. hurrah for the PC. That's why I have a PC and not a console. That's my decision as a consumer. to dictate to a company that you want them to make the investment, but undermine their ability to recoup that investment, is clearly not going to work.
No I am not a troll. I have a different view to you, and to the guy who called me a 'moron' and accused me of having brain damage. It's what intelligent, reasonable people in the real world call a 'difference of opinion'. Such things can be discussed and debated rationally and sensibly, except on slashdot, where anyone who disagrees with the/. groupthink is hurled with abuse.
Your post is dripping with contempt for the people who actually make stuff. 'so-called inventors' is a great example. Who did invent the mentioned nintendo games console then? you? your mates? How much of the R&D budget for the device did you contribute?
if you are going to complain that its a police state because you cannot play pirated xbox games, I can only imagine that things aren't so bad there. people in real police states would be sickened to hear the term used to describe someone enforcing clearly stated, and widely known copyright law.
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You are blaming nader? I thought gore won the popular vote. I don't care how its justified , if more people vote for candidate X, then candidate X should be president. That's called Democracy. The system you have, (like us in the UK) is some sick twisted joke that we try to pretend is democratic when it isn't. Even the new govt in iraq has proportional representation.
he said server.... not service.
sorry but i don't read past the abuse in your first sentence. anyone who cannot discuss the issue without name calling is just beneath listening to, or desperate for attention. goodbye.
If he had, they would no longer have the book or the movie while it was in his possession. Whenever people criticise piracy, slashdot readers always say its fine because the original guy still has his copy. That is the point, you did not borrow something, you copies it, without the permission of the person who created it originally. That's both morally and legally wrong, unless you are a communist and believe in such things.
I no more have the 'right' to freely copy the game 'bioshock' without paying for it, than I do to go into my local store and take whatever food I want. Someone worked hard to produce both products, and if their products are good enough for me to want, I should compensate them fairly for their work.
If I want to voluntarily go without the bioshock game for a week while I lend it to a friend that's fine, but if we both want to be free to enjoy the game unrestricted at our leisure, then we need to purchase two copies. This is entirely reasonable.
it looks fine in both firefox and IE. I have no idea what you are talking about.
For $500 million they could buy my new rock-band management game ->
:D
http://www.rocklegendgame.com/
Surely easier than writing yet another game
I'm glad you posted it, and glad you have been modded insightful. not everyone is taken in by the 'information should be free' bullshit that permeates slashdot. some of us appreciate that all content is produced by someone, and most of it is done by people trying to pay the bills, and that includes journalists.
Stop printing these regular fluff pieces form companies that SELL IN GAME ADS telling us how In-Game ads are so great. For fucks sake, what's next? studies from apple saying apple macs are cool?
This isn't news, its the semi-regular pro-game-ads fluff bullshit. Stop printing this crap.
napoleon was short and unattractive. hitler was also short, and similarly not blessed with looks. As I recall, genghis Khan was not one for physical attractiveness either. Lenin was bald. As ir ecall the USA had a president in a wheelchair, and Churchill was pig-ugly.
We had great leaders before we had TV debates and hair stylists.
you vote for someone based on their eyes and expressions?
Here in the UK, we had a blind home secretary for a while. his eyes went crazy all the time. I guess he would have lost your vote?
I'd be happy never to see a politician, or hear them, so I'm not influenced by such trivialities. What matters is what they propose, what they have done, and what they will do. Looks, Age, voice, style, I couldn't give a damn. the main job of a president or PM is to make the right decisions. You can be a 400 pound ugly son of a bitch who dribbles constantly and sounds like fozzy bear, but if you make the right decisions, I'll vote for you, and I won't care about your race, your gender or your looks.
An indie artist can sell his stuff direct on-line through his own website, using a payment provider like us indie game and shareware sellers do. They get to keep 100% of the money then.
Why not do this?
Because the vast majority of people who want the music will just steal it, unless it has DRM. That's why.
I still think they would be better off doing this, even given the losses due to piracy, but I have great sympathy with any artist that thinks its safer to let a big studio sell DRMed versions of their music than to try and rely on the honesty of internet users, which is a doomed strategy, as the thousands of illegal file sharing sites shows.
If you want to help small labels, and indie artists to shake off the shackles of the big companies that have dodgy practices, the best thing you can do is *BUY* their music when its for sale direct, and encourage them in that direct sales strategy. If you pirate movies / music / software / games before you even check to see if the provider is selling the product direct, affordably, and with demo products on offer, then you are making the case *for* DRM, not against it.
Every legitimate sale of digital content without DRM is a vote against DRM
Every pirated piece of digital content is a vote for stricter DRM
Every purchase direct from an artist / developer is a vote to cut out the publishers and record companies.
I skipped to the last arrogant insult in your drivel. you are taking something that isn't yours. you are a thief.
deal with it kiddo. BTW I'm not even american, so can all your whining about supreme courts.
Maybe if you ever grow up and actually create something, you will realise what drivel you used to parrot to people on slashdot.
"Most of the community is in agreement on that"
most thieves agree that what they do is justified, otherwise they could not sleep at night. This is what thieves do. They even try and kid themselves that its morally ok to steal. have the guts to admit what you are doing. And yes, you are a victim of the pro-piracy, stick-it-to-the-man bullshit groupthink of slashdot. Well spotted.
you are taking something that isn't yours, and breaking the law to get it free. what part of this definition does no tsound like theft to you?
sigh. modded as troll for suggesting people don't steal music. yup, this is slashdot. artists need to eat too. get over it.
"get over it"
said by someone who steals the content, not by the content maker, as always.
I see. so you want the music companies to be proved 100% right, in that some people are just thieves, and will pirate anything they can if given the chance, which is why they want to use DRM. Well done, you have just proved the RIAA correct, and shown why DRM is needed.
Pirates on slashdot whine that DRM is making them pirate music, DRM gets removed, they pirate anyway. There is nothing anyone can possibly do to make the case for DRM better than that.
If you actually do think that artists should be paid for making music you enjoy (as they should), then you should pay for your music. if DRM was stopping you doing so before, you have no excuses now. Only vague hand waving about "teh evil MAFIAAAAA" can be used to justify taking copyrighted music now.
"I have found it increasingly annoying dealing with people who run pirated software because "they couldn't afford to pay for it". This "don't give it a second thought" mentality is, IMHO, something that should be reversed. Just because technology enables somebody to do something... it doesn't mean they should."
Amen brother. I am interested in your ideas and wish to subscribe etc etc,
the AC poster happily contributed a comment for free, which took him maybe 10 seconds. producing a hollywood movies takes hundreds of people years, and they do so as their main employment, to pay their bills and buy food and clothing.
Surely you aren't trying to compare a web forum with the production of blockbuster movies and top-range software?
the pirate bay do it to make money:
http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml
20,000 Euros a day, also estimated at 9 million dollars a year, in advertising.
your friends band may lose out, but a bunch of swedes who take his work and give it away for free are doing just fine. Nice people huh?
why do you pro-piracy, anti copyright buffoons always have to shout and swear on here? it just makes you look like six year olds. Learn some new words kiddies.
what evil piece of patent tomfoolery means that Nintendo did not invent the wii? I'm sure if you spent the last 4 years working on the design of the thing, you would be very hacked off to hear some random slashdot poster call you a 'so-called inventor'.
third party games are locked out of the system by design,. this is the console business model. This is how it works. If you want a completely free open gaming platform, you have the PC. The guys making consoles, and spending zillions on R&D do so on the basis that they can control licensing fees and selection of titles for that platform. This is their business plan, it is their product, and their right to do so.
If I lay railway track, I can do so on the basis that I demand a licence fee from any trains company wishing to ship freight on my track. if everyone starts driving on the track, my business model collapses, and has been undermined. This is no different.
I am a big supporter of the PC for being an open platform, that is mod friendly, and open to 3rd party developers like myself. hurrah for the PC. That's why I have a PC and not a console. That's my decision as a consumer. to dictate to a company that you want them to make the investment, but undermine their ability to recoup that investment, is clearly not going to work.
bullshit.
you think that VHS beat betamax by civil disobedience do you?
On what planet is the market not influenced by the products people buy then?
No I am not a troll. I have a different view to you, and to the guy who called me a 'moron' and accused me of having brain damage. It's what intelligent, reasonable people in the real world call a 'difference of opinion'. Such things can be discussed and debated rationally and sensibly, except on slashdot, where anyone who disagrees with the /. groupthink is hurled with abuse.
Your post is dripping with contempt for the people who actually make stuff. 'so-called inventors' is a great example. Who did invent the mentioned nintendo games console then? you? your mates? How much of the R&D budget for the device did you contribute?
if you are going to complain that its a police state because you cannot play pirated xbox games, I can only imagine that things aren't so bad there. people in real police states would be sickened to hear the term used to describe someone enforcing clearly stated, and widely known copyright law.