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Daemonknight

#45
June 02, 2011, 07:42:50 PM
I actually have little to no issue with copyright laws. The major issue that I have, is with the software industry, including games, and that is in the form of the EULA. Telling me that by forking over 60 bucks for my copy of Gears of War 3, but oh i don't own the game, I own the LISENCE to use the game's code.

BULLSHIT, and other more strongly worded language. If i pay good money for something like that, its mine. I didn't purchase a lisence agreement from the developer. I purchased a piece of software from a retail vendor, who themselves are not a lisence broker, but an actual seller of products.

Anonymous has done alot of shady and stupid stuff, but their big DDoS attack on Sony, for going after the guy that originally broke the PS3 hardcoding, was one of their more high-profile missions i am totally in agreement with. The fact that someone else chose that same moment to hack the PSN was comedy gold, and only amplified to comedy platinum when it happened AGAIN, within 3 days of the PSN going back online.
"My only regret is that I will not be alive in .03 seconds. I would have liked to watch the enemy attempt to vent an omnidirectional thermonuclear blast enveloping their outpost."
-Last thoughts of Maldon, Type XXX Bolo, 3rd Battalion, Dinochrome Brigade

JediBear

#46
June 02, 2011, 09:43:22 PM
Quote from: Lord Harlock on June 02, 2011, 05:03:58 PM
Not to make this a war on the issue of copyrights, but I like them. If I ever want to make any money off the worlds that I've created for my novels, I need copyrights to ensure protection of my fictional universes.

I'm agreed with the not making this a war on the issue of copyrights thing, but I'm going to say that's a touch simplistic.

At this point in history, copyrights are wholly unenforceable and so essentially unenforced. If anyone is still making money off of producing content, it has absolutely nothing to do with copyrights.

But my point wasn't the obsolescence of Copyright, rather that it remains abusable and is still being abused.

JediBear

#47
June 02, 2011, 09:45:19 PM
Quote from: Daemonknight on June 02, 2011, 07:42:50 PM
I actually have little to no issue with copyright laws. The major issue that I have, is with the software industry, including games, and that is in the form of the EULA. Telling me that by forking over 60 bucks for my copy of Gears of War 3, but oh i don't own the game, I own the LISENCE to use the game's code.

Yes, sneakwrap agreements are egregious, and are actually illegal in some jurisdictions.

Lord Harlock

#48
June 02, 2011, 10:18:18 PM Last Edit: June 02, 2011, 10:30:36 PM by Lord Harlock
And as I have a dug hole for myself, here is a owner of a intellectual property doing some odd things with it. They created a cover of a song under Fair Rights Law of Katy Perry's "LA Girls", and then created the equivalent of a Anime Music Video with their own material. Honestly, it baffles the mind.  Though I respect JediBear's opinion and his right to say it, I disagree as my right with his opinion. I believe that when copyright works it is a beautiful song that sings together, and it has been in recent years with the creation of a certain network by DARPA in 1969 that the issue has become murker and murker that has destroyed the harmony of the song that once existed and its understanding. However in the words of George Lucas, money is in the merchandising anyway.

So let's go back to silly videos!  

MLP Equestria Girls-Extended Hub Promo Edition

Cannonshop

#49
June 08, 2011, 10:20:33 AM
okay, here's a dose of counter-theory to the Katy Perry video...

Smells like Karen Carpenter.

JediBear

#50
June 08, 2011, 05:16:31 PM
Quote from: Lord Harlock on June 02, 2011, 10:18:18 PMI believe that when copyright works it is a beautiful song that sings together.

That's actually tangential to my point, which was about when it doesn't work. To be clear, there's no very good reason it should work at all now that reproduction has no economic value and government lacks the ability to enforce a monopoly on it.

Copyright abuse is as old as Copyright itself and the reason we have Fair Use Doctrine in the first place is that copyrights were indeed used to suppress criticism and parody (for that matter, copyright claims are still being used this way even though it's illegal,) educational use, etc. And no exception to Copyright law has ever made the outright suppression of a work illegal. Works have been suppressed for many reasons (often religious or political) or for no reason at all.

Dave Baughman

#53
June 21, 2011, 03:40:53 PM
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Apollyon, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Daemonknight

#55
July 14, 2011, 07:59:28 PM
Armored Core 4Answer. Good game, took me like 30 tries to beat that stupid mega-walker. Didn't have the right setup for the longest time.


White Glint(the white AC in this trailer) was actually more of a pain. Damn thing is fast as hell
"My only regret is that I will not be alive in .03 seconds. I would have liked to watch the enemy attempt to vent an omnidirectional thermonuclear blast enveloping their outpost."
-Last thoughts of Maldon, Type XXX Bolo, 3rd Battalion, Dinochrome Brigade

Avatar Zero

#56
August 16, 2011, 04:04:29 AM
Just because I feel like being silly.  Again.

Mario Gundam

Cannonshop

#57
September 16, 2011, 08:39:29 PM
Test

Fatebringer

#58
September 16, 2011, 08:55:00 PM
Bueller...

Cannonshop

#59
September 24, 2011, 07:13:36 AM
[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 4, 4, total 8[/blockquote]
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