I think they're looking at it as a long term threat in a market they're not willing to develop themselves.. Call me idealistic, but in that sense they might actually be right..
i answered the question you asked. Sure, i'm being anti-scientific in that i can't read the minds of others, but i'm willing to bet that's the argument they'll use.
if you want to go into details on this (again, speculative) we could talk bullshit about it all day.. I have no problem playing devil's advocate, I'd just like you to know that your attack on my argument is not an attack on my beliefs.:)
Seems like you're jumping to conclusions a bit yourself... but i can't be sure.. are you saying that i can't speak for those people? Or did you think that by (speculatively) quoting them that i was one of them?
While i agree with you, i really think the conversation system is a natural progression from games like KOTOR and Baldur's Gate. Really, if you remove the voice and the thumbstick element there's very little difference, and those games actually do have the 'much deeper' aspect you're talking about.
as much as Mass Effect is an actual RPG (and a good one, even though it has a large FPS-esque component), it does very little that hasn't been done before. It just does it all pretty well, and tells a good story in the process.
They'll say 'video games don't contribute to violence any more than other violent media, so if you're going to restrict sales of video games to minors on those grounds, you'd better do it with movies and tv shows as well.'
The hate for Oblivion is pretty similar to the hate for Bioshock. It's a sequel to a series loved by rpg-geeks (like myself) for it's complexity, which has been severely reduced in terms of gameplay and environment.
I know in both cases the graphics have been scaled up, but the interfaces have both been reduced to Xbox360 controls, even on the PC... Perhaps that's a contributing factor aswell.. PC gamers feel like they're playing a console shooter instead of a PC RPG, and in a lot of cases this simply equates to dumbing down.
These problems aren't native to the format. A 2 page text document can easily be 2meg if it's scanned at 600dpi and no OCR is applied.this particular problem relates only to the knowledge of the user, and in that regard i don't think anyone can solve all the problems. While we're at it, you already knew this.
btw, your point on Acrobat Pro is moot, since there have been free PDF authoring tools available for years now, and publicly available export classes and functions for a variety of languages.. I could write a 3 line app that outputs passable (sparse, perhaps, but passable) PDFs. That's the benefit of having an open standard, anyone can implement a product using it.
Of those cases, only the first one is even remotely comparable. The damages they're claiming for are speculative.. that is, they would not have made or lost any money had the defendant acted differently, except in the specific case where the defendant went out and bought the CDs.
Nobody was injured in this crime, and nobody's livelihood was threatened. In addition, and also very importantly, she made no profit from the transfer of data. Whether or not 'making available' constitutes deliberate propagation is still being debated.
She's not the first one, she's just one of the first who fought against it and didn't quite have the smarts (or the money) to avoid the penalty. Others have paid thousands each to avoid these lawsuits.
and yes, it IS paying a grand for a one dollar song. There's no other avenue in civil court that offers plaintiffs a 1:1000 renumeration scheme.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 states that Congress should "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".
The current system is neither in the letter or the spirit of this document. I wonder what the world would be like if people could buy and sell their other exclusive personal rights..
The journalist is Patrick Gray, whose work can be found here. He also interviewed Dan Egerstad a few weeks ago, just before his activities with TOR were reported here.
This was also my biggest problem with the wii. The resolution is fine for most games, and a lot of wii games look really great.. But the console has Opera onboard, and native wireless.. ever tried browsing the web on a 50" plasma in 576x720?
it doesn't cripple the console, but it would have been nice..
Agreed. This should be reason enough for the lawsuit to succeed. Hopefully the telecommunications infrastructure in Germany isn't as monopolized as it is in the US.
Indeed. I guess that makes it more likely that this was a deliberate attempt on their part.
I totally agree with the sympathetic sentiment.. It's completely unfair that some customers are stuck with one provider, with no alternatives for high speed internet access.. in fact, it's akin to a regional monopoly, and (i could be wrong, but I believe that) it's the exact reason that Bell/AT&T were originally split up. (of course, when they split a company like that geographically, they're just reducing one monopoly into several smaller monopolies..)
Yeah, as you suspected, it's not the case in reality.. Japan, and especially the manga and anime producers have a long history of fair reuse of characters, up to a certain point. Doujin (Hobby) artists are not discouraged from recreating scenes featuring famous characters, rewriting them for alternate outcomes or favoring the viewpoints of different characters. This is a long standing tradition in Japan, where manga makes up ~70% of the publicly printed material.
In this case, Comcast are actually going against both legal and cultural traditions.
In this case, however, the copyrights are explicitly held by the publishing companies. The Japanese government can ask the US government to do something about it.. but that doesn't mean that a private company can start sending c&d notices to people for copyrights they don't own..
Sophos really aren't credible as a security/antivirus authority. Their antivirus product is somewhat ineffective, and they've recently started outputting alarmist survey results, I guess in an attempt to drum up more business for themselves.
Please guys, take these surveys (and perhaps any press release they have a hand in) with a grain of salt..
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What are the implications of your research, in terms of anger management or biofeedback training? :)
I think they're looking at it as a long term threat in a market they're not willing to develop themselves.. Call me idealistic, but in that sense they might actually be right..
Again, you're missing the point.
:)
i answered the question you asked. Sure, i'm being anti-scientific in that i can't read the minds of others, but i'm willing to bet that's the argument they'll use.
if you want to go into details on this (again, speculative) we could talk bullshit about it all day.. I have no problem playing devil's advocate, I'd just like you to know that your attack on my argument is not an attack on my beliefs.
Negroponte might be ok with Microsoft's involvement, but unless they're willing to give it all away for free, OLPC can't actually afford it.
also, don't you love it when people who go out of their way to ruin a party decide it's ok for them to attend when no one shows up to theirs?
Umm what?
Seems like you're jumping to conclusions a bit yourself... but i can't be sure.. are you saying that i can't speak for those people? Or did you think that by (speculatively) quoting them that i was one of them?
While i agree with you, i really think the conversation system is a natural progression from games like KOTOR and Baldur's Gate. Really, if you remove the voice and the thumbstick element there's very little difference, and those games actually do have the 'much deeper' aspect you're talking about.
as much as Mass Effect is an actual RPG (and a good one, even though it has a large FPS-esque component), it does very little that hasn't been done before. It just does it all pretty well, and tells a good story in the process.
They'll say 'video games don't contribute to violence any more than other violent media, so if you're going to restrict sales of video games to minors on those grounds, you'd better do it with movies and tv shows as well.'
The hate for Oblivion is pretty similar to the hate for Bioshock. It's a sequel to a series loved by rpg-geeks (like myself) for it's complexity, which has been severely reduced in terms of gameplay and environment.
I know in both cases the graphics have been scaled up, but the interfaces have both been reduced to Xbox360 controls, even on the PC... Perhaps that's a contributing factor aswell.. PC gamers feel like they're playing a console shooter instead of a PC RPG, and in a lot of cases this simply equates to dumbing down.
These problems aren't native to the format. A 2 page text document can easily be 2meg if it's scanned at 600dpi and no OCR is applied.this particular problem relates only to the knowledge of the user, and in that regard i don't think anyone can solve all the problems. While we're at it, you already knew this.
btw, your point on Acrobat Pro is moot, since there have been free PDF authoring tools available for years now, and publicly available export classes and functions for a variety of languages.. I could write a 3 line app that outputs passable (sparse, perhaps, but passable) PDFs. That's the benefit of having an open standard, anyone can implement a product using it.
Of those cases, only the first one is even remotely comparable. The damages they're claiming for are speculative.. that is, they would not have made or lost any money had the defendant acted differently, except in the specific case where the defendant went out and bought the CDs.
Nobody was injured in this crime, and nobody's livelihood was threatened. In addition, and also very importantly, she made no profit from the transfer of data. Whether or not 'making available' constitutes deliberate propagation is still being debated.
She's not the first one, she's just one of the first who fought against it and didn't quite have the smarts (or the money) to avoid the penalty. Others have paid thousands each to avoid these lawsuits.
and yes, it IS paying a grand for a one dollar song. There's no other avenue in civil court that offers plaintiffs a 1:1000 renumeration scheme.
Parents? responsible for taking care of their own children?
:/
you sir, are clearly a terrorist.
The journalist is Patrick Gray, whose work can be found here. He also interviewed Dan Egerstad a few weeks ago, just before his activities with TOR were reported here.
This was also my biggest problem with the wii. The resolution is fine for most games, and a lot of wii games look really great.. But the console has Opera onboard, and native wireless.. ever tried browsing the web on a 50" plasma in 576x720?
it doesn't cripple the console, but it would have been nice..
No, because sony and SquareEnix are two totally different companies.
indeedy.. a local monopoly is still a monopoly.
Agreed. This should be reason enough for the lawsuit to succeed. Hopefully the telecommunications infrastructure in Germany isn't as monopolized as it is in the US.
I guess that's why there's an mp3 link in the article, and a transcript of the verdict..
;)
disclaimer: haven't read, am at werk..
Indeed. I guess that makes it more likely that this was a deliberate attempt on their part.
I totally agree with the sympathetic sentiment.. It's completely unfair that some customers are stuck with one provider, with no alternatives for high speed internet access.. in fact, it's akin to a regional monopoly, and (i could be wrong, but I believe that) it's the exact reason that Bell/AT&T were originally split up. (of course, when they split a company like that geographically, they're just reducing one monopoly into several smaller monopolies..)
Yeah, as you suspected, it's not the case in reality.. Japan, and especially the manga and anime producers have a long history of fair reuse of characters, up to a certain point. Doujin (Hobby) artists are not discouraged from recreating scenes featuring famous characters, rewriting them for alternate outcomes or favoring the viewpoints of different characters. This is a long standing tradition in Japan, where manga makes up ~70% of the publicly printed material.
In this case, Comcast are actually going against both legal and cultural traditions.
Sure, in some countries.
In this case, however, the copyrights are explicitly held by the publishing companies. The Japanese government can ask the US government to do something about it.. but that doesn't mean that a private company can start sending c&d notices to people for copyrights they don't own..
That's one publisher, who are notably not included in this discussion. As you pointed out, Animesuki does not distribute them.
Sophos really aren't credible as a security/antivirus authority. Their antivirus product is somewhat ineffective, and they've recently started outputting alarmist survey results, I guess in an attempt to drum up more business for themselves.
Please guys, take these surveys (and perhaps any press release they have a hand in) with a grain of salt..
but surely that's what taxes are for.. :P