I will not buy a game until I have downloaded and played it at least a couple of times, for an extended amount of time. And by doing so, I have saved myself tons and tons of money.
Keep saving money. That way, game companies won't have as much sitting around to put into development.
Seriously. Most of you guys really don't understand that the way to get companies to change isn't by pirating the game. You get a company to change by forcing them to adopt customer-friendly business models through litigation or economic impact. That doesn't have any bearing on your actual claim to a copy of the game. It's still not yours.
You are in no way, shape or form, in any hypothetical or actual fashion, entitled to being paid to play a game. The only way you get money from a company is by direct employment, a lawsuit or the stock market.
You can't say you're entitled to have that copy and have any legitimate basis for that claim, regardless as to the cost to the business. You didn't pay for the creation or distribution of their creation; you lay no claim to a copy, regardless as to the excessive cost to actually buy it, stupid DRM issues, crappy corporate policies, or lack of costs incurred on their part because of your actions.
It took beavers only a matter of months to do this when we take years and they still break. Why aren't we seeing a story about remote controlled animals with tools working en mass to build projects like this. Now that's a story that should be on Slashdot.
Funny that beaver dams never break. You would think that since they're made out of untreated wood, that the water would rot them at some random point that beavers can't even foresee....
I don't know about Gamefly, but if they're in cardboard, they should be much better off than Netflix. Netflix's shipping method involves about 4 sheets of paper, not even glued together.
That is if I want to easily port my app to different platforms I will have to abstract the platform dependant portions so that I can re-use the rest of the code directly, and have separate bits of code for the various APIs and such.
They just disallowed doing exactly this, and required that you only use their API directly, without your custom wrapper library.
If you can't use the undocumented APIs, and you can't use a wrapper around Apple's APIs, and you can't access hardware directly, you're directly tied to Apple's documented APIs, which ties the application very tightly to Apple's device.
You would have used MPEG-LA at a point during production, and are still liable for the licensing fees because you used it.
What you're trying to say is along the lines of someone using a pirated, professional video editing suite, using patented effects (just say, their sun flare algorithm) from the suite, then saving the file into a movie, and not being liable for use of their patented sun flare effect because it's just part of the final product.
he is arguing that since everything uses h.264 as a base that ultimately you must obtain a license to publish anything commercially
This is exactly what he's arguing.
He's also arguing that if you record using a camcorder that uses h.264, then you're going to be liable to pay the fee, even if you change the codec to Theora or another free codec. The idea behind that is that when you record in h.264 on the camcorder, you're using their software (for a commercial purpose), and owe licensing fees because of that period where the video is in h.264 (thus using MPEG-LA patented software).
Its not like he couldn't have read up on how border crossings work prior to heading across the border to learn that his vehicle may be searched and that at no time should he leave his vehicle unless explicitly asked to do so by border patrol.
It's not really their fault when it comes to "obeying the law" as per point #1. Sony decided to push a firmware update on the people who own PS3s, not Best Buy. Best Buy had literally nothing to do with that decision-making process.
It's a more metaphorical application, but you are still *taking* something.
Since it's basically intellectual property that you're stealing when you take credit, you can't distinguish between stealing credit for a work and stealing a copy of a work.
You didn't consider that your brain can see the first and last letter, then if your brain didn't understand it, go back and look at some more letters. I mean, that's what a time-saving accuracy-needing brain would do...
Depending on where you work, it might be a good idea to lock down most of the computers. A hospital or doctor's patient information shouldn't be on machines with free-for-all internet access, as someone mentioned above. The problem here isn't "loss of data". It's "anyone who isn't authorized seeing nearly any portion of the data", which is a much harder thing to do when everyone has access to email, Google and every bit of snoopware that comes with that.
I seriously don't understand how people don't realize that government regulation and intervention is the only thing preventing one corporation from, quite literally, owning everything from government to housing to your time and your mind. This is why government needs to be separated from corporate influence in the strongest ways possible, and government needs to promote unbiased policies regardless as to the "goal" of the legislation. Environmental and national security policy need to be just as unbiased as economic policy, and there needs to be a fairly clear indication of when corporations have gotten too big and need to be broken up. We have quite a few companies that are somewhere in the area of that borderline; they may be just under or over it, but we can't hesitate to act.
No, it means that the business will have the same 5 workers at $7.50 instead of $0.03 per hour. Would you really want to have companies with the ability to keep pay rates the same for 60 years with nobody forcing them to pace with inflation?
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I will not buy a game until I have downloaded and played it at least a couple of times, for an extended amount of time. And by doing so, I have saved myself tons and tons of money.
Keep saving money. That way, game companies won't have as much sitting around to put into development.
Seriously. Most of you guys really don't understand that the way to get companies to change isn't by pirating the game. You get a company to change by forcing them to adopt customer-friendly business models through litigation or economic impact. That doesn't have any bearing on your actual claim to a copy of the game. It's still not yours.
You are in no way, shape or form, in any hypothetical or actual fashion, entitled to being paid to play a game. The only way you get money from a company is by direct employment, a lawsuit or the stock market.
You can't say you're entitled to have that copy and have any legitimate basis for that claim, regardless as to the cost to the business. You didn't pay for the creation or distribution of their creation; you lay no claim to a copy, regardless as to the excessive cost to actually buy it, stupid DRM issues, crappy corporate policies, or lack of costs incurred on their part because of your actions.
No, they'd be "North Alaska" and "Sunlight ain't welcome 'round these parts (until the mood swing)".
It took beavers only a matter of months to do this when we take years and they still break. Why aren't we seeing a story about remote controlled animals with tools working en mass to build projects like this. Now that's a story that should be on Slashdot.
Funny that beaver dams never break. You would think that since they're made out of untreated wood, that the water would rot them at some random point that beavers can't even foresee....
Nothing. That's why you don't give government the power to take over the wires, but to bitchslap the people using the wires.
Sure as hell not the corporations. They're the local governments, and therefore the people's.
ZOMG we SO needed someone to point out that the link with [lmgtfy.com] next to it goes to lmgtfy.com!
I don't know about Gamefly, but if they're in cardboard, they should be much better off than Netflix. Netflix's shipping method involves about 4 sheets of paper, not even glued together.
She gave you a DNA sample, but made you sign a license prohibiting cloning?
If you just say "don't do it", someone will do it.
There is no porn; the prudish sects of America are showing up for this one.
I'm hard pressed to imagine how listening to the senators from other districts is going to help him make a choice that represents his constituents.
They have over 90% of the iPhone market
I'm nearly 100% positive we have a definitive number on what percentage of that market they have, and that the number is >90%.
That is if I want to easily port my app to different platforms I will have to abstract the platform dependant portions so that I can re-use the rest of the code directly, and have separate bits of code for the various APIs and such.
They just disallowed doing exactly this, and required that you only use their API directly, without your custom wrapper library.
If you can't use the undocumented APIs, and you can't use a wrapper around Apple's APIs, and you can't access hardware directly, you're directly tied to Apple's documented APIs, which ties the application very tightly to Apple's device.
You would have used MPEG-LA at a point during production, and are still liable for the licensing fees because you used it.
What you're trying to say is along the lines of someone using a pirated, professional video editing suite, using patented effects (just say, their sun flare algorithm) from the suite, then saving the file into a movie, and not being liable for use of their patented sun flare effect because it's just part of the final product.
he is arguing that since everything uses h.264 as a base that ultimately you must obtain a license to publish anything commercially
This is exactly what he's arguing.
He's also arguing that if you record using a camcorder that uses h.264, then you're going to be liable to pay the fee, even if you change the codec to Theora or another free codec. The idea behind that is that when you record in h.264 on the camcorder, you're using their software (for a commercial purpose), and owe licensing fees because of that period where the video is in h.264 (thus using MPEG-LA patented software).
Its not like he couldn't have read up on how border crossings work prior to heading across the border to learn that his vehicle may be searched and that at no time should he leave his vehicle unless explicitly asked to do so by border patrol.
He's a writer, not a reader, duh!
It's not really their fault when it comes to "obeying the law" as per point #1. Sony decided to push a firmware update on the people who own PS3s, not Best Buy. Best Buy had literally nothing to do with that decision-making process.
I agree with you on point #2, though.
It's a more metaphorical application, but you are still *taking* something.
Since it's basically intellectual property that you're stealing when you take credit, you can't distinguish between stealing credit for a work and stealing a copy of a work.
You didn't consider that your brain can see the first and last letter, then if your brain didn't understand it, go back and look at some more letters. I mean, that's what a time-saving accuracy-needing brain would do...
Depending on where you work, it might be a good idea to lock down most of the computers. A hospital or doctor's patient information shouldn't be on machines with free-for-all internet access, as someone mentioned above. The problem here isn't "loss of data". It's "anyone who isn't authorized seeing nearly any portion of the data", which is a much harder thing to do when everyone has access to email, Google and every bit of snoopware that comes with that.
Hemp paper is available, but it's more far more expensive than paper from wood pulp.
When you add a boat or plane to the supply chain because it's totally illegal to grow in the USA, no shit it's more expensive
I seriously don't understand how people don't realize that government regulation and intervention is the only thing preventing one corporation from, quite literally, owning everything from government to housing to your time and your mind. This is why government needs to be separated from corporate influence in the strongest ways possible, and government needs to promote unbiased policies regardless as to the "goal" of the legislation. Environmental and national security policy need to be just as unbiased as economic policy, and there needs to be a fairly clear indication of when corporations have gotten too big and need to be broken up. We have quite a few companies that are somewhere in the area of that borderline; they may be just under or over it, but we can't hesitate to act.
No, it means that the business will have the same 5 workers at $7.50 instead of $0.03 per hour. Would you really want to have companies with the ability to keep pay rates the same for 60 years with nobody forcing them to pace with inflation?