Privilege, you mean. This is a very important mental distinction. Copyright is a government-granted temporary privilege, not a natural right. It's not life, liberty, and all that jazz. Where it should concern American law, it exists for a very specific purpose:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. -- Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution
With extension after extension, the "limited times" part is dead. Pretty much nothing ever falls into public domain anymore. Progress ceased to happen but to the wealthiest corporations; the People do not benefit. Copyright has become pure rent seeking, its sole purpose unfulfilled.
Therefore... fuck that shit. Stuff written half a century ago ought to be in public domain. If it wasn't for those insane extensions, it would be.
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Wait a second, whatever happened to that commercial from 1985?
The one with businessmen as lemmings?
if you want to use porn, buy an Xbox
Strange, you say that like this isn't an awesome sales pitch.
Yes, there are quite a few "commercial homebrew" titles for older consoles such as Atari 2600, Vectrex, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, and Dreamcast.
boy, how I really do miss those clickidy-clackidy keyboards!
Buy a new one from Unicomp.
Cut the NSA, CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, and all that anti-democratic shit.
Would you kindly metricate your numbers? The rest of the world has already moved away from that primitive system.
The Bible is about YHVH, and YHVH is nasty.
Well, there was The Animatrix, it was pretty good.
Nanook, don't be a naughty eskimo. Save your money, don't go to the show.
Do you pronounce genius as "ghenius"?
Well what else would I listen to during my work hours?
Umm... music?
Learn.
Privilege, you mean. This is a very important mental distinction. Copyright is a government-granted temporary privilege, not a natural right. It's not life, liberty, and all that jazz. Where it should concern American law, it exists for a very specific purpose:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. -- Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution
With extension after extension, the "limited times" part is dead. Pretty much nothing ever falls into public domain anymore. Progress ceased to happen but to the wealthiest corporations; the People do not benefit. Copyright has become pure rent seeking, its sole purpose unfulfilled.
Therefore... fuck that shit. Stuff written half a century ago ought to be in public domain. If it wasn't for those insane extensions, it would be.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
His characteristic style and humor was always enjoyable, and he will be sorely missed."
Yes, it was. And don't call him Shirley.
Hey, it's penny pinchers: they will do anything to save a few millions, even if it ends up costing a few billions.
What do you call the RIAA?
Many call it "the MAFIAA" -- and mean it.
Copyright created the market.
Indeed, art requires copyright. As everybody knows, art was pretty much non-existent before copyright was invented, just 300 years ago... oh, wait.
Copyright is undue government interference in the market.
From the videos I saw, it's the most brown game since Quake.
What bad word? Daytona USA is wildly unrealistic, and people love it for being what it is.
Gran Turismo: the so-called "real driving simulator" that does model damage worse than the wildly unrealistic Daytona USA did back in 1993.
Stop spreading this lie. There is no Matrix trilogy.
A realistic enough driving game might.
It's not like they will read you, it's probably a bot.