You probably wouldn't be downmodded if you had posted your opinion without being such a sanctimonious prick about it. Keep that in mind for next time, sparky.
And by the way, if the copyright holder was deprived of his right to distribute his own work, then the one who "stole" that from him was the person who chose to make the $MEDIA_FILE available for downloading.. not the person who is receiving the copy. That person is just accepting something that is being offered.
I agree. That's Wiki's strength.. mountains and mountains of information you wouldn't otherwise have a source for. If the "information" you're looking for is notparticularlyimportant, Wikipedia can be highly amusing and informative.
[sarcasm]Getting a Canadian friend to buy your music for you and then upload you a copy of the track would be FILE SHARING and that, as the RIAA has made me understand, is THEFT.[/sarcasm]
That's because we've actually freaken BEEN THERE. We're the only country who has risked life, limb and extreme amounts of money to land there, plant a flag and pick up moon rocks. If anybody has the right to claim land on the moon, it's us, folks.
I am sure somebody will consider that flamebait. Waaaahh.
> But when I read "Principle: The user is in charge and should be free to carry out any activity at any time without fear of reprisals" I just about lost my lunch.
Yeah, that's pretty funny. Tell that to the RIAA, MPAA, DVD player makers..
Unlike WoD, which requires you to purchase 1 core book and at least 15 supplements to really understand what the core book is talking about. By the time you've figured it out, they release a totally new core book.
Sorry, but "tough shit" don't make it so. When I buy a piece of software, and there is nothing whatsoever to indicate that this is a rental, a lease, a temporary situation of any kind.. I expect the software to work. I expect it to work on a computer that it is designed to work on. There was nothing (if I'm wrong, show me) in any marketing materials or in the manual to indicate that the software would spontaneously stop working, forcing me to buy an upgrade in two years time in order to continue to use all the data I'd input in that time. THAT IS BULLSHIT. I don't care how you slice it, that is bullshit.
"You bought a license." "You don't want to sign a contract, don't sign it." Again, bullshit. You don't have any kind of "contract" when you buy furniture. No furniture maker forces you to agree to terms along the lines of, "this item of furniture may not be used to store medical supplies, Care Bears, Fluffy Puff marshmallows or sexual toys. At any time your usage of the furniture may be audited by the manufacturer and said usage may be revoked at the manufacturer's discretion." No. Bullshit. You buy the furniture, it's yours until you decide to dispose of it. It's out of the manufacturer's hands.
The fact that we let software manufacturers get away with this "contract" "license" nonsense is really sad.
Oh, and "You're bring granted more freedom than you initially had".. bullshit. I already have the freedom to use my computer for legal purposes. I already have the freedom to buy a legal piece of software to install on my legally owned computer to legally manage all my data for my legal business. When the software stops working for no good reason (and there was NO good reason for it to stop working, that is my point) then THE SOFTWARE IS DEFECTIVE and the software developer owes ME a replacement.. it should not have been me giving THEM another two hundred bucks.. no, my friend, that's extortion. It's as fucking simple as that.
The data that I entered into QuickBooks is mine, and I should be able to use the software I paid for to get access to it, if for nothing else, to dump it into another software package like Peachtree or whathaveyou.
I did not give QuickBooks the right to hold my business' data hostage. And nowhere in any of my materials did it say that the software could and would cease functioning at any given time because it decided it didn't like the fact that I'd installed a new OS--just the OS!!--on a different hard drive.
I hear you, man. Almost the same thing happened to me with QuickBooks. Any software that requires "activation" (i.e. permission from the software developer MCP) is not true software.. it's like a dumb terminal slaved to a mainframe. You "bought" nothing, you are just renting the ability to use the software for an undisclosed period of time. Not the same thing and that is not the language software resellers use when they "sell" you software.
True, but that is not an excuse. If you use a program, say Quickbooks, to manage your company's financial data, and then you want to get into your data, and you own a legitimately purchased copy of the software bought and paid for with your own money, you'd better damn well have access to your data whenever you damn well please, irrespective of the software company's wish for you to buy the $200 upgrade every other year.
I did not buy the "license" to use this software until the software developer arbitrarily decides my time is up. I bought the fucking software. I should be able to use it however I want, for as long as I want, on any and however many computers of mine that will run it.
I'm so sick of software makers restricting my freedom to use software the way I want to use it when I've paid for it. Same goes for DVDs. I'm SO SICK of sitting there waiting for the FBI, Interpol, Mossad, Secret Service, MI-6 and the Office of Navel Lint warnings that I've read time and time again. I want to skip them, dammit. Don't tell me what actions are and are not "permitted" by the disc. It's my fucking disc!
You're taking it too literally. Marathon has incredible potential for storytelling, because the scope of its universe is massive. A movie could focus on one marine's fight to liberate the Marathon from the Pfhor, then winding up enslaved by Durandal and then carted across the galaxy to Lh'owon (?sp) to continue their exploits. Put a comlink into the marine's suit that linked directly to Leela/Durandal/Tycho/whichever (which shouldn't have been too hard for all the technology evidenced in Marathon) and presto, you don't need terminals.
A darker, more cyperpunk/gothic version of Knight Rider, only KITT drives Michael.
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Insightful post, my good man.
mmm, McDonalds hamburgers.
Waldo has the burned and fried chip.
You probably wouldn't be downmodded if you had posted your opinion without being such a sanctimonious prick about it. Keep that in mind for next time, sparky.
And by the way, if the copyright holder was deprived of his right to distribute his own work, then the one who "stole" that from him was the person who chose to make the $MEDIA_FILE available for downloading .. not the person who is receiving the copy. That person is just accepting something that is being offered.
Stealing is a criminal offense. Copyright infringement is a civil offense. You think there's no difference between these two concepts?
"Transparent aluminum??"
"That's the ticket, laddie."
I agree. That's Wiki's strength .. mountains and mountains of information you wouldn't otherwise have a source for. If the "information" you're looking for is not particularly important, Wikipedia can be highly amusing and informative.
I like how he pisses and moans about being "slandered" by everybody under the sun, and then sets up a hate site slandering Wikipedia.
[sarcasm]Getting a Canadian friend to buy your music for you and then upload you a copy of the track would be FILE SHARING and that, as the RIAA has made me understand, is THEFT.[/sarcasm]
Someone call Tom Selleck and Cynthia Rhodes .. we've got a runaway ..
If they can (and choose to) defend it, then yes.
Jupiter is a gas giant. I'll take 300 cubic kilometers, please.
That's because we've actually freaken BEEN THERE. We're the only country who has risked life, limb and extreme amounts of money to land there, plant a flag and pick up moon rocks. If anybody has the right to claim land on the moon, it's us, folks.
I am sure somebody will consider that flamebait. Waaaahh.
> But when I read " Principle: The user is in charge and should be free to carry out any activity at any time without fear of reprisals" I just about lost my lunch.
Yeah, that's pretty funny. Tell that to the RIAA, MPAA, DVD player makers ..
Make sure you know how to throw them right.
Unlike WoD, which requires you to purchase 1 core book and at least 15 supplements to really understand what the core book is talking about. By the time you've figured it out, they release a totally new core book.
Dammit, they fixed it, just when I sent the email to my friends saying they should hurry up and check it out before it gets fixed. Bugger!
Sorry, but "tough shit" don't make it so. When I buy a piece of software, and there is nothing whatsoever to indicate that this is a rental, a lease, a temporary situation of any kind .. I expect the software to work. I expect it to work on a computer that it is designed to work on. There was nothing (if I'm wrong, show me) in any marketing materials or in the manual to indicate that the software would spontaneously stop working, forcing me to buy an upgrade in two years time in order to continue to use all the data I'd input in that time. THAT IS BULLSHIT. I don't care how you slice it, that is bullshit.
"You bought a license." "You don't want to sign a contract, don't sign it." Again, bullshit. You don't have any kind of "contract" when you buy furniture. No furniture maker forces you to agree to terms along the lines of, "this item of furniture may not be used to store medical supplies, Care Bears, Fluffy Puff marshmallows or sexual toys. At any time your usage of the furniture may be audited by the manufacturer and said usage may be revoked at the manufacturer's discretion." No. Bullshit. You buy the furniture, it's yours until you decide to dispose of it. It's out of the manufacturer's hands.
The fact that we let software manufacturers get away with this "contract" "license" nonsense is really sad.
Oh, and "You're bring granted more freedom than you initially had" .. bullshit. I already have the freedom to use my computer for legal purposes. I already have the freedom to buy a legal piece of software to install on my legally owned computer to legally manage all my data for my legal business. When the software stops working for no good reason (and there was NO good reason for it to stop working, that is my point) then THE SOFTWARE IS DEFECTIVE and the software developer owes ME a replacement .. it should not have been me giving THEM another two hundred bucks .. no, my friend, that's extortion. It's as fucking simple as that.
The data that I entered into QuickBooks is mine, and I should be able to use the software I paid for to get access to it, if for nothing else, to dump it into another software package like Peachtree or whathaveyou.
I did not give QuickBooks the right to hold my business' data hostage. And nowhere in any of my materials did it say that the software could and would cease functioning at any given time because it decided it didn't like the fact that I'd installed a new OS--just the OS!!--on a different hard drive.
"License" my ass.
Does it say on the box that you must have a working internet connection to play the game? Just curious.
How would the game authenticate itself without said internet connection? And is the game playable without authentication?
I hear you, man. Almost the same thing happened to me with QuickBooks. Any software that requires "activation" (i.e. permission from the software developer MCP) is not true software .. it's like a dumb terminal slaved to a mainframe. You "bought" nothing, you are just renting the ability to use the software for an undisclosed period of time. Not the same thing and that is not the language software resellers use when they "sell" you software.
True, but that's what hardcopies are for.
True, but that is not an excuse. If you use a program, say Quickbooks, to manage your company's financial data, and then you want to get into your data, and you own a legitimately purchased copy of the software bought and paid for with your own money, you'd better damn well have access to your data whenever you damn well please, irrespective of the software company's wish for you to buy the $200 upgrade every other year.
I did not buy the "license" to use this software until the software developer arbitrarily decides my time is up. I bought the fucking software. I should be able to use it however I want, for as long as I want, on any and however many computers of mine that will run it.
I'm so sick of software makers restricting my freedom to use software the way I want to use it when I've paid for it. Same goes for DVDs. I'm SO SICK of sitting there waiting for the FBI, Interpol, Mossad, Secret Service, MI-6 and the Office of Navel Lint warnings that I've read time and time again. I want to skip them, dammit. Don't tell me what actions are and are not "permitted" by the disc. It's my fucking disc!
Back to decaf for me ..
You're taking it too literally. Marathon has incredible potential for storytelling, because the scope of its universe is massive. A movie could focus on one marine's fight to liberate the Marathon from the Pfhor, then winding up enslaved by Durandal and then carted across the galaxy to Lh'owon (?sp) to continue their exploits. Put a comlink into the marine's suit that linked directly to Leela/Durandal/Tycho/whichever (which shouldn't have been too hard for all the technology evidenced in Marathon) and presto, you don't need terminals.
A darker, more cyperpunk/gothic version of Knight Rider, only KITT drives Michael.
Tabletop RPGs are still a pretty safe haven for social misfits from "the rest of the world".