Well no, the distinction is irrelevant. Because this is being performed on a commercial level, it actually is theft, unquestionably. A sale that the original author should have had they no longer do, while someone not the original author does. The original author is actually being deprived of something. Ergo, theft.
This is not to be confused with regular old individual copyright infringement. While technically the individual is doing the same thing, there is no guarantee they would have bought the item anyway (though there's also no guarantee they wouldn't - suck it piracy advocates), hence there's no absolutely certain way to tell if the author actually is being deprived of something. Then again, they may still be. It's an interesting debate but not one I'm willing to pursue. Too damn philosophical.
Then again, most people found guilty of copyright infringement (i.e. Jammie Thomas) probably would prefer they just outright called it theft. 300 hours community service is a hell of a lot less life-destroying than 7.5 million dollars.
It's not so much indemnity as liability shift. Basically, Apple would be held liable for the amount, but they have a contract permitting them to recover their liability via civil action from the party they have a contract with.
Actually, I would argue that when done on a commercial scale it is theft. Since the people who obtain the infringing copy are paying for it, often believing they are paying the legitimate rights holder, one could say these very much are literally lost sales, and the infringer actually is stealing from the rights holder.
No, you fucking retarded imbecile, you're not responsible for a government you didn't fucking elect. Take your fucked up logic and your irrational hostility and go fuck yourself with it, cocksucker.
Uh, you could not be more wrong. SWIFT provides the interbank communications network that allows international funds transfer. The deletion of their codes from the system prevents funds from being electronically transferred in and out of the country.
Stands for Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunications. Those dark-ages things called "Wire Transfers" all pass through them. Not those middle-ages things you call "ACH Debits" though.
Um... that article says the exact opposite of what you claim - it says the aggressors are the Greeks, not the Turks, since the Greeks tried to essentially strip all the constitutional rights from the Turks and when the Turks opposed it, disbanded the constitutional court, illegally passed the amendments anyway, and planned to unify with Greece - and if the Turks intervened then they would be violently subjugated before foreign intervention could occur.
So yeah, ask the Greeks how to go about a good genocide.
Actually don't, they might get ideas like Germany did (that started World War II). Which occurred because of... the same thing that's happening... in Greece.
His Reign of Stupid has been marked by the nationalization of all electric companies which of course, now can't operate very well and there are national rolling blackouts.
So....good job?
What the fuck do you mean, "of course"? There are many countries with nationalised power that do operate very well, with no blackouts. The country I live in - New Zealand - does it with 3 out of 4 electricity generators being state owned, and they operate "on par with, or more efficiently than, private sector equivalents" (in the words of a report the government commissioned to try and prove they were not efficiently run so they could justify selling them). Hell, we don't even have nuclear. Almost all our power is hydro.
Actually, it's a common misconception that embassies are sovereign territory. They do enjoy something akin to diplomatic immunity, and by treaty the host nation may not enter one without permission of the represented country, but they are most assuredly as sovereign a a shop down the road from them.
And this has sweet fuck all to do with the people of the country. This may come as a shock, but many countries (even so called democracies) are ruled by parties with diametrically opposite political views to the majority of the public. The public cannot be held responsible for the actions of a government they didn't elect. And before you pull out that "armed revolution" bullshit, in most every civilized country in the world there are these things called gun controls, which prevent such a thing from occurring.
Not Brunei - that's metric too. You're thinking of the totalitarian dictatorship, Burma (Myanmar). Also, the pretty much third world country Liberia. Sure got some good company there, USA.
Actually, making them at all is a felony, unless you copy it at least 150% of the original size or at most 75% of the original size and only in black and white.
Hell, I didn't know until SC2 that there could be anyone worse than EA.
I'm going to be honest, it's looking more and more by the day like EA are the good guys. I mean by comparison you have ActivisionBlizzard (all about the money), Ubisoft (all about the DRM), id/Bethesda (all about the bugs), THQ (almost bankrupt)... I guess there's always Valve. And 2K haven't screwed up their reputation yet.
No, Vivendi is. Vivendi owned Blizzard, and merged Activision with Vivendi Games, Blizzard's parent company. The newly formed entity was called ActivisionBlizzard, with Bobby Kotick (the enemy of gamers everywhere) because they wanted the new entity to be able to ride off Blizzard's good reputation. Which they promptly trashed by the way.
One question: are your private prison operators paid on a per capita basis per incarcerated person, or on a performance basis per rehabilitated person? Ours are paid per rehabilitated person. Et tu?
You know, you should actually support copyright infringement being treated as theft. The penalties would sure drop precipitously (imagine if pirating 1000 songs only got you a bit of community service instead of a $7,500,000 judgement!)
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Well no, the distinction is irrelevant. Because this is being performed on a commercial level, it actually is theft, unquestionably. A sale that the original author should have had they no longer do, while someone not the original author does. The original author is actually being deprived of something. Ergo, theft.
This is not to be confused with regular old individual copyright infringement. While technically the individual is doing the same thing, there is no guarantee they would have bought the item anyway (though there's also no guarantee they wouldn't - suck it piracy advocates), hence there's no absolutely certain way to tell if the author actually is being deprived of something. Then again, they may still be. It's an interesting debate but not one I'm willing to pursue. Too damn philosophical.
Then again, most people found guilty of copyright infringement (i.e. Jammie Thomas) probably would prefer they just outright called it theft. 300 hours community service is a hell of a lot less life-destroying than 7.5 million dollars.
It's not so much indemnity as liability shift. Basically, Apple would be held liable for the amount, but they have a contract permitting them to recover their liability via civil action from the party they have a contract with.
Actually, I would argue that when done on a commercial scale it is theft. Since the people who obtain the infringing copy are paying for it, often believing they are paying the legitimate rights holder, one could say these very much are literally lost sales, and the infringer actually is stealing from the rights holder.
Interesting - thanks for the clarification.
No, you fucking retarded imbecile, you're not responsible for a government you didn't fucking elect. Take your fucked up logic and your irrational hostility and go fuck yourself with it, cocksucker.
Uh, you could not be more wrong. SWIFT provides the interbank communications network that allows international funds transfer. The deletion of their codes from the system prevents funds from being electronically transferred in and out of the country.
No, they're subject to the laws of the EU in general and Belgium in particular. Not the US.
Stands for Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunications. Those dark-ages things called "Wire Transfers" all pass through them. Not those middle-ages things you call "ACH Debits" though.
Cute. You actually believe the USA delivers freedom and democracy. It does not, it delivers war, death, bloodshed, and suffering.
Um... that article says the exact opposite of what you claim - it says the aggressors are the Greeks, not the Turks, since the Greeks tried to essentially strip all the constitutional rights from the Turks and when the Turks opposed it, disbanded the constitutional court, illegally passed the amendments anyway, and planned to unify with Greece - and if the Turks intervened then they would be violently subjugated before foreign intervention could occur.
So yeah, ask the Greeks how to go about a good genocide.
Actually don't, they might get ideas like Germany did (that started World War II). Which occurred because of... the same thing that's happening... in Greece.
His Reign of Stupid has been marked by the nationalization of all electric companies which of course, now can't operate very well and there are national rolling blackouts.
So....good job?
What the fuck do you mean, "of course"? There are many countries with nationalised power that do operate very well, with no blackouts. The country I live in - New Zealand - does it with 3 out of 4 electricity generators being state owned, and they operate "on par with, or more efficiently than, private sector equivalents" (in the words of a report the government commissioned to try and prove they were not efficiently run so they could justify selling them). Hell, we don't even have nuclear. Almost all our power is hydro.
Actually, it's a common misconception that embassies are sovereign territory. They do enjoy something akin to diplomatic immunity, and by treaty the host nation may not enter one without permission of the represented country, but they are most assuredly as sovereign a a shop down the road from them.
And this has sweet fuck all to do with the people of the country. This may come as a shock, but many countries (even so called democracies) are ruled by parties with diametrically opposite political views to the majority of the public. The public cannot be held responsible for the actions of a government they didn't elect. And before you pull out that "armed revolution" bullshit, in most every civilized country in the world there are these things called gun controls, which prevent such a thing from occurring.
Not Brunei - that's metric too. You're thinking of the totalitarian dictatorship, Burma (Myanmar). Also, the pretty much third world country Liberia. Sure got some good company there, USA.
Using Treasury logic, yes.
Actually, making them at all is a felony, unless you copy it at least 150% of the original size or at most 75% of the original size and only in black and white.
They may not be taking a cut this time - but this opens the door for all future games to have real money for gear all the time.
Yes they are.
Hell, I didn't know until SC2 that there could be anyone worse than EA.
I'm going to be honest, it's looking more and more by the day like EA are the good guys. I mean by comparison you have ActivisionBlizzard (all about the money), Ubisoft (all about the DRM), id/Bethesda (all about the bugs), THQ (almost bankrupt)... I guess there's always Valve. And 2K haven't screwed up their reputation yet.
No, Vivendi is. Vivendi owned Blizzard, and merged Activision with Vivendi Games, Blizzard's parent company. The newly formed entity was called ActivisionBlizzard, with Bobby Kotick (the enemy of gamers everywhere) because they wanted the new entity to be able to ride off Blizzard's good reputation. Which they promptly trashed by the way.
Most of us have never even heard of Star Control. Stop being so fucking obtuse.
What publisher? Activision/Blizzard self publishes their games. It's the Activision bit that explains it.
And don't forget that online rendering still required you to go and buy Trumpet Winsock or similar software since Windows had no TCP/IP support.
One question: are your private prison operators paid on a per capita basis per incarcerated person, or on a performance basis per rehabilitated person? Ours are paid per rehabilitated person. Et tu?
You know, you should actually support copyright infringement being treated as theft. The penalties would sure drop precipitously (imagine if pirating 1000 songs only got you a bit of community service instead of a $7,500,000 judgement!)
That makes it a copyright license. That doesn't magically make it something else.