I am absolutely at your side in this - the idea that Zelda and Mario are for kids and violent games are for adults is a myth. From my experience it looks that it is completely opposite. But there is one flaw in this logic - yes the average 30 year old guy has more money than the average kid but the kid has much more time to play games. The 30 year old guy will buy games for let's say 30% of his disposable income - because he doesn't need more than 1-2 a month. A kid will spend all of his money because he will need a new game every week.
I have no idea why are you surprised that the same words are interpreted differently depending on who utters them. When someone says something which could be interpreted either as irony or literaly and you know that the guy is immune to irony you just go for literal meaning. That's all.
The difference between buying a CD and a car is rather well known. It is the music, not CD that you buy and precisely because of that, you can not touch the cd but pay for the music buying the cd.
I didn't mean to accuse you of doing an illegal thing. I am far from this kind of reasoning because I consider downloading stuff to be a personal affair to be settled within anyone's conscience. What I wanted to say is that these kind of stupid moves of labels can't be used to justify downloading - because even after downloading the music (which is more convenient that dealing with modern DRMs) you can always give your money to the artist by buying the CD. The problems with the CD can't be an excuse for downloading without paying. And I wanted to make a general claim, not to attack your practices. After all you said that you bought the CD. It is just that I often see this way of argumentation - I wanted to buy a CD but had to download the mp3 because of DRM, so I can't be legal, therefore I won't be legal because companies drove me to that. I disagree to that way of argumentation - nobody stops you from transferring the money to the artist via buying the CD you will not use.
True, but having these problems doesn't make it impossible to be a legal user right? You can allways download the music and buy a CD - just to pay for it.
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I am absolutely at your side in this - the idea that Zelda and Mario are for kids and violent games are for adults is a myth. From my experience it looks that it is completely opposite. But there is one flaw in this logic - yes the average 30 year old guy has more money than the average kid but the kid has much more time to play games. The 30 year old guy will buy games for let's say 30% of his disposable income - because he doesn't need more than 1-2 a month. A kid will spend all of his money because he will need a new game every week.
I have no idea why are you surprised that the same words are interpreted differently depending on who utters them. When someone says something which could be interpreted either as irony or literaly and you know that the guy is immune to irony you just go for literal meaning. That's all.
The difference between buying a CD and a car is rather well known. It is the music, not CD that you buy and precisely because of that, you can not touch the cd but pay for the music buying the cd.
I didn't mean to accuse you of doing an illegal thing. I am far from this kind of reasoning because I consider downloading stuff to be a personal affair to be settled within anyone's conscience. What I wanted to say is that these kind of stupid moves of labels can't be used to justify downloading - because even after downloading the music (which is more convenient that dealing with modern DRMs) you can always give your money to the artist by buying the CD. The problems with the CD can't be an excuse for downloading without paying. And I wanted to make a general claim, not to attack your practices. After all you said that you bought the CD. It is just that I often see this way of argumentation - I wanted to buy a CD but had to download the mp3 because of DRM, so I can't be legal, therefore I won't be legal because companies drove me to that. I disagree to that way of argumentation - nobody stops you from transferring the money to the artist via buying the CD you will not use.
True, but having these problems doesn't make it impossible to be a legal user right? You can allways download the music and buy a CD - just to pay for it.