how does it make sense to only tax what is physical? My income is electronic. People buy the games using electrons, and those electrons change a number on a hard disk that denotes my earnings. Nothing physical gets made, moved or exchanged. But that doesnt mean my income shouldnt be taxed just the same as someone who lays bricks or grows food. Work is work, whether the outcome of it is digitally encodable or not.
Not that I agree in this tax. I wouldnt mind (I make non violent games) if it was consistent with taxing the fuck out of tarantinos movies. Too many hollywood guys donate to politicians to let that happen though.
Because when I see that people are actually PAYING someone else to play the boring parts of a game for them, it's easy for me to deduce that what we have is not a fun game, but a tedious grindfest designed to keep bored teenagers playing forever and ever.
The solution to goldfarming should be to find out why earning gold in the game is so bloody tedious and focus your design efforts on making the game fun to play. Games are supposed to be fun, not a second job.
Wow. So asking people to pay for stuff that other people worked on developing is terrorism? What laughable bullshit. By the way some of the 'talented coders' actually make commercial software and games. The stuff that people here (and you, it seems) think they were born with a right to enjoy for fuck-all.
If you have respect for the work of 'talented coders' how about you stop taking their work for free?
Here in England we vote using paper and pens. The pens never need calibrating. We don't understand why machines have any advantages at all. We never queue up to vote either. I don't vaguely trust my vote to a piece of electronics. And I'm not a luddite, I'm a programmer.
If you are an indie, the actuality is closer to the dream. A few days ago my job was to listen to sci-fi movie soundtracks and pick the bits I liked best, then give that list to a musician to compose some music. The rest of the day was spent watching Revenge of the sith on one monitor as source material to put together better laser beam effects on the other one.
Not all days are that cool, but it does happen:D Especially when you choose to do a game that's exactly like the kind you want to play (which is always a smart idea).
Crunch does not work. It just adds bugs at 2am that take 2 days to find. I love games too, which is why I left mainstream dev and started up on my own. I work hard, and put a lot of effort in, but I don't 'crunch' any more, because I understand that coding at 2am is a disaster. Its tragic than mainstream development has not realised this.
I love the way they have swallowed the digg/torrentfreak bullshit of calling it 'file sharing' rather than theft or piracy. What next? is care jacking just 'car sharing'?
What a joke. this site is practically an off-shoot of torrentfrek now. Its laughable to read this at the bottom:
how about we compare which of those three services will remove content that the copyright holder claims (and proves) breaches their copyright, and which do not.
Short answer:
The piratebay don't give a fuck, the others do.
Why cant people see this? Its posted again and again, and the pro-piracy kids just don't want to hear it.
I look forward to more helpful posts by kdawson here at torrentfreak on how we can ignore the law and take copyrighted stuff for free. maybe a series of informative videos on how we can get away with leeching content from all those dumb assholes who actually pay for the content to be made, and we could set aside a day to poke fun and laugh at people who actually make commercial content.
This is a great day for us leechers and freeloaders. I just look forward to the slashdot series on how to get away with car theft and burglary due next week.
interesting that you left off the hilariously high rate of gun deaths in the US vs UK.
Given a choice of being shot and killed by a criminal in the US, who also gets killed in the shoot-out, or having my ipod stolen in the UK and being left unharmed, I'll stay here.
The criminal here has my ipod, but I'm alive. I'm sure my heroic gunplay will make an interesting story at my US funeral.
WTF? If google streetview catches a few people dodging their income tax, corp tax or any other tax, I say job well done. I pay my taxes, and I don't consider it wrong for the government to crack down on the leeching scum who I subsidise because they are too tight-assed to pay their share. *sheesh* as the Americans say.
Some people care about their privacy more than you do. That doesn't make them 'knuckle draggers'.
Right now, the tech only exists for a limited number of properties to have airplane-taken and streetview taken single photos of limited resolution. What happens in 5 years time when the tech exists for those photos to be updated every 6 months at treble the resolution? What about 10 years time where its ten times the resolution updated every day? What about when micro-satellite ai-drone doodads can take photos through every window of every house 24/7?
I'd rather we sorted out peoples rights to public privacy before the tech exists to really abuse it. As such, these people are kicking off a reasonable debate about individuals right to privacy from a US-owned company systematically cataloguing their community.
If the stuff is 'crap' and other people buy it, what the fuck do you care? Does it really offend you SO MUCH that people like different movies to you, that you intend to push the business making them out of business, to both 1) punish people making movies for other people and 2) punish people who happily paid to see them.
If you don't like stuff made by certain companies don't buy it.
I don't like folk music. But I don't try and kill off the folk music industry, because I'm adult enough to understand peoples tastes vary.
It doesn't matter what powers the RIAA have to prosecute you if you steal their stuff, because as someone who hates their stuff, you arent going to be pirating it. Right?
I pity the poor little street kids in Rio who are innocently pirating Crysis. The game only runs on a $2,000 PC, yet somehow those poor kids could scrape together enough cash from begging in the streets to buy the PC, and the broadband connection, but cant afford to pay $35 for the game...
Get real. And to pretend that you 'miss out on everyday culture' because you can't steal it is just pathetic. If I can't afford superbowl tickets should I be able to break in? After all, its just fascist mind control by an evil government if I can't right?
you would actually hang people for voting to pass a law where you get to steal three times before you are even vaguely punished?
Get some fucking perspective. you were not born with an innate right to enjoy other peoples labours for free. if you really think that's not true, please fuck off to North Korea where a few delusional maniacs still think that way.
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how does it make sense to only tax what is physical?
My income is electronic. People buy the games using electrons, and those electrons change a number on a hard disk that denotes my earnings.
Nothing physical gets made, moved or exchanged.
But that doesnt mean my income shouldnt be taxed just the same as someone who lays bricks or grows food.
Work is work, whether the outcome of it is digitally encodable or not.
Not that I agree in this tax. I wouldnt mind (I make non violent games) if it was consistent with taxing the fuck out of tarantinos movies. Too many hollywood guys donate to politicians to let that happen though.
comments provided by anonymous cowards are a waste of time.
Because when I see that people are actually PAYING someone else to play the boring parts of a game for them, it's easy for me to deduce that what we have is not a fun game, but a tedious grindfest designed to keep bored teenagers playing forever and ever.
The solution to goldfarming should be to find out why earning gold in the game is so bloody tedious and focus your design efforts on making the game fun to play. Games are supposed to be fun, not a second job.
numbers provided by torrentfreak and thepiratebay are absolutely fucking trustworthy.
*snigger*
someone like kdawson?
HAHAHAHAHA
Wow.
So asking people to pay for stuff that other people worked on developing is terrorism?
What laughable bullshit.
By the way some of the 'talented coders' actually make commercial software and games. The stuff that people here (and you, it seems) think they were born with a right to enjoy for fuck-all.
If you have respect for the work of 'talented coders' how about you stop taking their work for free?
Here in England we vote using paper and pens. The pens never need calibrating.
We don't understand why machines have any advantages at all. We never queue up to vote either.
I don't vaguely trust my vote to a piece of electronics. And I'm not a luddite, I'm a programmer.
If you are an indie, the actuality is closer to the dream.
A few days ago my job was to listen to sci-fi movie soundtracks and pick the bits I liked best, then give that list to a musician to compose some music. The rest of the day was spent watching Revenge of the sith on one monitor as source material to put together better laser beam effects on the other one.
Not all days are that cool, but it does happen :D Especially when you choose to do a game that's exactly like the kind you want to play (which is always a smart idea).
Crunch does not work. It just adds bugs at 2am that take 2 days to find.
I love games too, which is why I left mainstream dev and started up on my own. I work hard, and put a lot of effort in, but I don't 'crunch' any more, because I understand that coding at 2am is a disaster.
Its tragic than mainstream development has not realised this.
I love the way they have swallowed the digg/torrentfreak bullshit of calling it 'file sharing' rather than theft or piracy.
What next? is care jacking just 'car sharing'?
What a joke. this site is practically an off-shoot of torrentfrek now. Its laughable to read this at the bottom:
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2009 SourceForge, Inc. "
I thought the /. hippies thought copyright was teh evil?
how about we compare which of those three services will remove content that the copyright holder claims (and proves) breaches their copyright, and which do not.
Short answer:
The piratebay don't give a fuck, the others do.
Why cant people see this? Its posted again and again, and the pro-piracy kids just don't want to hear it.
I look forward to more helpful posts by kdawson here at torrentfreak on how we can ignore the law and take copyrighted stuff for free. maybe a series of informative videos on how we can get away with leeching content from all those dumb assholes who actually pay for the content to be made, and we could set aside a day to poke fun and laugh at people who actually make commercial content.
This is a great day for us leechers and freeloaders. I just look forward to the slashdot series on how to get away with car theft and burglary due next week.
Cheers team!
if you want to encourage people to create movies, you need to pay them. people do not work for free.
what part of this theory confuses you?
interesting that you left off the hilariously high rate of gun deaths in the US vs UK.
Given a choice of being shot and killed by a criminal in the US, who also gets killed in the shoot-out, or having my ipod stolen in the UK and being left unharmed, I'll stay here.
The criminal here has my ipod, but I'm alive. I'm sure my heroic gunplay will make an interesting story at my US funeral.
WTF?
If google streetview catches a few people dodging their income tax, corp tax or any other tax, I say job well done.
I pay my taxes, and I don't consider it wrong for the government to crack down on the leeching scum who I subsidise because they are too tight-assed to pay their share.
*sheesh* as the Americans say.
What is a block?
Towns in the UK aren't laid out like chessboards.
Has it ever occurred to you that the version of the UK that you get broadcast in the USA might not be 100% accurate?
As we are shown it, you guys are a bunch of gun-toting hamburger-munching obese rednecks who don't believe in evolution or climate change.
Sometimes the media exaggerates.
Some people care about their privacy more than you do.
That doesn't make them 'knuckle draggers'.
Right now, the tech only exists for a limited number of properties to have airplane-taken and streetview taken single photos of limited resolution.
What happens in 5 years time when the tech exists for those photos to be updated every 6 months at treble the resolution?
What about 10 years time where its ten times the resolution updated every day? What about when micro-satellite ai-drone doodads can take photos through every window of every house 24/7?
I'd rather we sorted out peoples rights to public privacy before the tech exists to really abuse it. As such, these people are kicking off a reasonable debate about individuals right to privacy from a US-owned company systematically cataloguing their community.
hows that working in the US?
Gun crime homicides per 100,000 pop:
#9 Zimbabwe: 11.98
#13 Ukraine: 9.27
#14 United States: 9.1
UK : Not listed.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_ove_hom_rat_per_100_pop-rate-per-100-000-pop
cool.
Design by committee, combined with rich people choosing what games get made.
Sounds awesome!
By 'information' do you mean 'hollywood movies'?
if so.... get some fucking perspective.
If the stuff is 'crap' and other people buy it, what the fuck do you care?
Does it really offend you SO MUCH that people like different movies to you, that you intend to push the business making them out of business, to both
1) punish people making movies for other people and
2) punish people who happily paid to see them.
If you don't like stuff made by certain companies don't buy it.
I don't like folk music. But I don't try and kill off the folk music industry, because I'm adult enough to understand peoples tastes vary.
It doesn't matter what powers the RIAA have to prosecute you if you steal their stuff, because as someone who hates their stuff, you arent going to be pirating it.
Right?
are the commoners going to make their own music and movies?
Pity, I kinda enjoyed the professional quality entertainment myself.
hahahaha
I pity the poor little street kids in Rio who are innocently pirating Crysis. The game only runs on a $2,000 PC, yet somehow those poor kids could scrape together enough cash from begging in the streets to buy the PC, and the broadband connection, but cant afford to pay $35 for the game...
Get real. And to pretend that you 'miss out on everyday culture' because you can't steal it is just pathetic.
If I can't afford superbowl tickets should I be able to break in? After all, its just fascist mind control by an evil government if I can't right?
you would actually hang people for voting to pass a law where you get to steal three times before you are even vaguely punished?
Get some fucking perspective. you were not born with an innate right to enjoy other peoples labours for free.
if you really think that's not true, please fuck off to North Korea where a few delusional maniacs still think that way.