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RE: Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?
November 21, 2014 at 10:55 pm
(November 9, 2014 at 6:48 pm)Aractus Wrote: No, the analogy would be that somebody who bought the physical book should also get a license to the kindle/ebook version. That license would be inseparable from the physical book.
Or, once you purchase a digital edition of a book, the ability to read it on
any device, without having to download an application, regardless of who manufactured the device. The fracturing of licensing ebooks only to the devices sold by the same parent company (Barnes and Noble/Nook, Amazon/Kindle, etc...) and the limits on loaning/passing on the books will do more to discourage reading than it will to protect intellectual property rights, especially when you consider the price of the ebook compared to it's production costs.
I love my e-reader, but it pisses me off to no end that I cannot give a book I didn't like to a friend/relative who might as I can with perfect legal right in print format.
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RE: Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?
November 22, 2014 at 1:37 am
(November 21, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know, that's something that I've never understood about this, piracy? Who decided to call it that? Were they aware of what pirates did, how they made their living? The term doesn't seem to apply. It's not like I'm trying to sell their own game back to them (or anyone) at a profit........ I just want to know what it is they're trying to extort me with, before I let them part my cheeks.
Because it's much less boring sounding than copyright infringement.
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RE: Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?
November 23, 2014 at 5:21 pm
(November 21, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know, that's something that I've never understood about this, piracy? Who decided to call it that? Were they aware of what pirates did, how they made their living? The term doesn't seem to apply. It's not like I'm trying to sell their own game back to them (or anyone) at a profit........ I just want to know what it is they're trying to extort me with, before I let them part my cheeks.
No idea how the term was coined, but I can remember it as far back as the mid-80s... when my friends and I would pirate Commodore 64 games. >.<
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RE: Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?
November 23, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Lots of people get digital media to sell it on. They might more accurately be called pirates maybe.
I think piracy should be completely widespread, in all aspects of trade. I want to try cars because I don't really want to pay for them. Some I can, some I can't. None I really want to. I'll take that Porsche/ Adobe Cloud. Just because I can.
There is certainly a case for saying that the profits are unfair. We could redistribute wealth that way.
