With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain.
It's disturbing to think there are people out there who think these are bad things. It's even more disturbing that someone with this kind of sociopathic outlook is in a position of power.
If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated.
It's clear that using closed source software has led to a lot of ID-10T problems...at least in this Thai Minister's case.
In a recent interview with Computer and Video Games, Official PlayStation Magazine's Editor in Chief Tom Byron remarked, "We have built up a certain brand equity over time since the launch of Official PlayStation Magazine that the first five million subscribers are going to buy it, whatever it is, even if it didn't have articles."
The other side came back with an argument that copyright law didn't apply, simply because they software was 'being given away for free.
I hope the commercial company wins. Distributing something for free should automatically strip something of its copyright. This would also have the positive side effect of putting everything the media companies show on TV, the radio, or the web into the public domain where it should be. No more broadcasting music or movies to everyone's house so they can be watched or listened to for free, then trying to sue everyone because they're sharing those same things.
The difference here is that this guy plays the tunes in his business establishment. One could reasonably argue that he does derive financial benefit from having music as a perk for his patrong.
My gut response is: "so what?" People should not be restricted from deriving financial benefit from using other people's works...especially works that are so old. These kinds of laws are just morally reprehensible. It's one thing to try to rip someone off by passing their work off as your own; it's quite another to just copy it.
Copyright law needs to die. It has hampered the advancement of human civilization, science, knowledge, and culture long enough. Everyone should be allowed to benefit from everyone else's work. Free market in extremo, and all that jazz. Real freedom. What's the fucking point of society if we lock up people for copying each other?
When you realize this is simply about getting shit for free you'll finally understand the anti-copyright movement.
How did this garbage get modded up as insightful?
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This article has touched a sore spot for me, so I'll post an article I wrote a while back that discusses this very issue, but focuses mainly on First Person Shooters. Unfortunately, it's just as applicable as when I first wrote it...
I'm a fan of good first person shooters, rare as they may be. One of my favorite video game pastimes right now is playing James Bond: Nightfire for the GameCube. I just set myself up in multiplayer mode with six bots (all Snow Guards) on the Skyrail level and blast away in 'professional' mode. That's pretty much the only way I play the game (I don't even think I've finished the single player portion of the game). Sadly, the game lacks a good mix of automatic weapons. Oh how I miss the good old AR44 and RCP90 from the N64 game Goldeneye.
As fun as the game is on my regular setting, it does get a tad tiresome. You know you've played a FPS too much when you start using a pistol to snipe while on the run (it is, however, quite satisfying getting a good sequence of one shot kills with the Raptor.50). But it was hen I started using one of the game's only automatic submachine gun set on semi-automatic mode to snipe, I knew it was time for something new.
So, my brother and I go out and rent GoldenEye: Rogue Agent on the weekend. *sigh* I'll forego describing its major shortcomings and rant about the state of the FPS genre on the console.
Okay. Here is how the video game industry should be: find out what is good about a game in a particular genre, then include that feature in every subsequent game. There is absolutely no excuse for multiplayer mode in a FPS shooter not to have every single one of the following features:
Bots
Not everyone can gather a group of people together to play multiplayer games. Every FPS should include computer controlled players in multiplayer mode. At the very least these bots must fill in for missing players. A better standard would be the existence of bots in addition to the human controlled players. Nightfire is a perfect example of how all FPSes from now on should be, allowing up to four human players and six computer controlled players at once.
Customizable Controls
No FPS should exist without at least four different control setups. The control layout should be displayed on-screen. There is no excuse not to do this (I'm looking right at you, Medal of Honor: Frontline, whose control layouts weren't even in the manual!). The best would be if each button were customizable.
Players should be able to change controls in the middle of a game. Any sensitivity controls (and there should be sensitivity controls!) should range from frozen molasses to greased lightning (not frozen molasses to regular molasses, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent!).
Good Weapons
No FPS game should have fewer than twenty weapons. That is the absolute, bare-bones minimum. A good number of weapons is thirty or forty. The complete weapon set must include the following:
At least two high-powered assault rifles, capable of automatic and burst fire (e.g. the AR-44 from Goldeneye)
At least two submachine guns with high rates of fire (e.g. ZMG and RCP-90 from GoldenEye)
At least one submachine gun with a silencer (e.g. Deutsche M9K from Nightfire)
At least one, good sniper rifle
At least one rocket launcher.
At least one grenade launcher.
Hand grenades
Proximity mines
Laser trip-mines
At least one automatic shotgun
At least one laser weapon
At least two good, normal pistols
At least one pistol with a silencer
At least one machine pistol
A knife
The ability to punch (i.e. attack without a weapon)
And why stop there? What about other countries who support terrorism, for instance. Are they going to relocate to Canada?
NOOO--, I mean, I don't think that's a good idea. Don't you remember how Canada was an entry point for the 9/11 terrorists? We-- I mean, those Canucks can't be trusted. Microsoft should not move here!
On the contrary, the analogy is quite apt. The linguistic ambiguity surrounding the word 'kill' is also directly rooted in the fact that it's used broadly to describe an entire suite of closely related but distinct actions. The word 'kill' has multiple, diverse meanings, just like the word 'love'.
To rob the meaning of the word "kill" of a proper context is an intellectually dishonest tactic in debating issues like capital punishment. There many orders of mangnitude worth of differences between the following kinds of killing, for example:
Killing one's spouse because he/she cheated on you
Killing a mosquito that bit you
Killing a serial rapist
Killing a sick, old dog
Killing an unborn child
Killing an armed robber
One does not (or, at least, should not) love an infant the same way one loves a spouse. Both people are loved, and the love expressed is fundamentally identical, but the expression of it is different.
Similarly, in the case of the killing an innocent child versus the killing of the person guilty of murdering that same child, both people are killed, and the end result is fundamentally identical, but the reasons for and morality of the two actions are worlds apart.
"Don't kill people, or we'll kill you." Doesn't it strike you as being hypocritical to have a death penalty when there's a law against killing people?
Not unless I was so obtuse as to think the two kinds of killing you describe are morally equivalent. Do you also have trouble distinguishing the contextual meaning of other words, e.g. do you love your daughter in the exact same way you love your wife or your dog?
There's a world of difference between execution by society as punishment for an act that is recognized as extremely wrong by pretty much every culture on earth and plain-old, selfish murder.
You can use the email address on my website if you want to contact me. Just click the 'email me' link and leave the subject header alone; the subject header the main way I filter out the few real emails I get from that spam-magnet account.
GameDailyBiz is carrying a story looking at the importance of demoing a game before purchase, a factor apparently crucial in game buying decisions for many gamers.
ZOMG!!! Who'da thunk it?
Seriously, are media execs so ignorant of the real world that something like this is big news?
Hey, game industry execs! Here are a few other apparently crucial factors in game buying decisions:
"Microsoft will operate 64-bit versions of Windows Vista as a tabernacle, with the kernel as the holy of holies, where only its own high priests of security may venture."
But, what happens if a hacker sacrifices a spotless bull and two perfect rams and then attempts to hack the kernel while wearing the appropriate ephod and bejewelled chestpiece? Will the glory of the LORD Gates that dwells within the kernel strike him dead, or will the false priest be allowed full access to my OS?
And what if I don't have enough faith in this OS? Will it still run?
What if I commit adultery against the LORD Gates by dual booting Linux?
What if my wife touches the computer while she is unclean?
It's obviously stealing revenue. I mean, I've got over $200,000,000.00 in a box at home that I've saved (I mean, stolen) because of piracy. All those media cartels are right: pirates have collectively stolen trillions of dollars from them over the past few decades. Check under your beds; you'll probably find a big box of money like I did.
I think it works like this:
For every mp3 you download, $2 appears under your bed.
For every movie you download, $20 appears under your bed.
For every half-hour of television you download, $5 appears under your bed.
For every game you download, $50 appears under your bed.
For every book you download, $10 appears under your bed (upwards of $100 or more if it's a textbook or reference book).
For every video clip of a movie or TV show you see online, $0.25 appears under your bed.
Try it (not that I am advocating stealing, mind you). It's amazing! And all this money is coming straight out of the bank accounts of various media cartels. I think it has something to do with that "voodoo economics" I heard about a few years back.
I don't know why it doesn't work when you steal shows or movies over the TV, or music over the radio. Maybe because it's older technology and the media cartels put anti-theft technology in it, and with computers they have yet to do so because that's newer technology.
Oh, crap. I just thought of something. I just posted this on Slashdot! Now thousands of people will be stealing it from me! That's what I get for posting my two cents worth of intellectual property.:(
Jay-Z's attorney, Michael Guido. 'While peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property...
I would have second thoughts about hiring any lawyer that can't distinguish between two entirely different sets of laws. I'd half expect Mr. Guido to charge jaywalkers with attempted murder based on his statements here.
Slashdot Mirror
Or maybe you and your friend just suck?
(I jest ;-)
Yes, Slashdot is just advertisements now. I'm serial.
It's disturbing to think there are people out there who think these are bad things. It's even more disturbing that someone with this kind of sociopathic outlook is in a position of power.
It's clear that using closed source software has led to a lot of ID-10T problems...at least in this Thai Minister's case.
In a recent interview with Computer and Video Games, Official PlayStation Magazine's Editor in Chief Tom Byron remarked, "We have built up a certain brand equity over time since the launch of Official PlayStation Magazine that the first five million subscribers are going to buy it, whatever it is, even if it didn't have articles."
I hope the commercial company wins. Distributing something for free should automatically strip something of its copyright. This would also have the positive side effect of putting everything the media companies show on TV, the radio, or the web into the public domain where it should be. No more broadcasting music or movies to everyone's house so they can be watched or listened to for free, then trying to sue everyone because they're sharing those same things.
My gut response is: "so what?" People should not be restricted from deriving financial benefit from using other people's works...especially works that are so old. These kinds of laws are just morally reprehensible. It's one thing to try to rip someone off by passing their work off as your own; it's quite another to just copy it.
Copyright law needs to die. It has hampered the advancement of human civilization, science, knowledge, and culture long enough. Everyone should be allowed to benefit from everyone else's work. Free market in extremo, and all that jazz. Real freedom. What's the fucking point of society if we lock up people for copying each other?
They're democrats, not magicians.
In Bushels?
Did they check their ass? That's usually where these statistics are pulled out of.
How did this garbage get modded up as insightful?
This article has touched a sore spot for me, so I'll post an article I wrote a while back that discusses this very issue, but focuses mainly on First Person Shooters. Unfortunately, it's just as applicable as when I first wrote it...
I'm a fan of good first person shooters, rare as they may be. One of my favorite video game pastimes right now is playing James Bond: Nightfire for the GameCube. I just set myself up in multiplayer mode with six bots (all Snow Guards) on the Skyrail level and blast away in 'professional' mode. That's pretty much the only way I play the game (I don't even think I've finished the single player portion of the game). Sadly, the game lacks a good mix of automatic weapons. Oh how I miss the good old AR44 and RCP90 from the N64 game Goldeneye.
As fun as the game is on my regular setting, it does get a tad tiresome. You know you've played a FPS too much when you start using a pistol to snipe while on the run (it is, however, quite satisfying getting a good sequence of one shot kills with the Raptor .50). But it was hen I started using one of the game's only automatic submachine gun set on semi-automatic mode to snipe, I knew it was time for something new.
So, my brother and I go out and rent GoldenEye: Rogue Agent on the weekend. *sigh* I'll forego describing its major shortcomings and rant about the state of the FPS genre on the console.
Okay. Here is how the video game industry should be: find out what is good about a game in a particular genre, then include that feature in every subsequent game. There is absolutely no excuse for multiplayer mode in a FPS shooter not to have every single one of the following features:
NOOO--, I mean, I don't think that's a good idea. Don't you remember how Canada was an entry point for the 9/11 terrorists? We-- I mean, those Canucks can't be trusted. Microsoft should not move here!
I mean, "there"!
On the contrary, the analogy is quite apt. The linguistic ambiguity surrounding the word 'kill' is also directly rooted in the fact that it's used broadly to describe an entire suite of closely related but distinct actions. The word 'kill' has multiple, diverse meanings, just like the word 'love'.
To rob the meaning of the word "kill" of a proper context is an intellectually dishonest tactic in debating issues like capital punishment. There many orders of mangnitude worth of differences between the following kinds of killing, for example:
One does not (or, at least, should not) love an infant the same way one loves a spouse. Both people are loved, and the love expressed is fundamentally identical, but the expression of it is different.
Similarly, in the case of the killing an innocent child versus the killing of the person guilty of murdering that same child, both people are killed, and the end result is fundamentally identical, but the reasons for and morality of the two actions are worlds apart.
Not unless I was so obtuse as to think the two kinds of killing you describe are morally equivalent. Do you also have trouble distinguishing the contextual meaning of other words, e.g. do you love your daughter in the exact same way you love your wife or your dog?
There's a world of difference between execution by society as punishment for an act that is recognized as extremely wrong by pretty much every culture on earth and plain-old, selfish murder.
You can use the email address on my website if you want to contact me. Just click the 'email me' link and leave the subject header alone; the subject header the main way I filter out the few real emails I get from that spam-magnet account.
Yeah, Sagan was an ass (and not really all that smart) when it came to religion. It's too bad, but everyone has character flaws, I guess.
Let's see if I can make a response appropriate to your level of debate...
Hey <noun insult>!
<whatever you said> - Wrong
Here's why
ZOMG!!! Who'da thunk it?
Seriously, are media execs so ignorant of the real world that something like this is big news?
Hey, game industry execs! Here are a few other apparently crucial factors in game buying decisions:
Marketers noun language.
But, what happens if a hacker sacrifices a spotless bull and two perfect rams and then attempts to hack the kernel while wearing the appropriate ephod and bejewelled chestpiece? Will the glory of the LORD Gates that dwells within the kernel strike him dead, or will the false priest be allowed full access to my OS?
And what if I don't have enough faith in this OS? Will it still run?
What if I commit adultery against the LORD Gates by dual booting Linux?
What if my wife touches the computer while she is unclean?
(oh, the possibility for jokes is endless)
It's obviously stealing revenue. I mean, I've got over $200,000,000.00 in a box at home that I've saved (I mean, stolen) because of piracy. All those media cartels are right: pirates have collectively stolen trillions of dollars from them over the past few decades. Check under your beds; you'll probably find a big box of money like I did.
I think it works like this:
Try it (not that I am advocating stealing, mind you). It's amazing! And all this money is coming straight out of the bank accounts of various media cartels. I think it has something to do with that "voodoo economics" I heard about a few years back.
I don't know why it doesn't work when you steal shows or movies over the TV, or music over the radio. Maybe because it's older technology and the media cartels put anti-theft technology in it, and with computers they have yet to do so because that's newer technology.
Oh, crap. I just thought of something. I just posted this on Slashdot! Now thousands of people will be stealing it from me! That's what I get for posting my two cents worth of intellectual property. :(
This thread is useless without pix. /fark
My hands were cut off in a shredding machine accident you insensitive clod!
What about killing real dragons?
Don't bother answering. I'm about as likely to be able to do the latter as I am the former.
I would have second thoughts about hiring any lawyer that can't distinguish between two entirely different sets of laws. I'd half expect Mr. Guido to charge jaywalkers with attempted murder based on his statements here.