• Obama working with RIAA/MPAA to crackdown on all piracy
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After reading it briefly it seems to be more broadly sweeping then just focusing on music and movie theft, it looks like it will be going after physical products like counterfeit's of name brand stuff like Gucci and Oakley products as well as food and health products which are good things to go after. Though like so many other promises he has made I doubt we will see any tangible results come out of this.
Instead of enforcing stupid laws to dish out thousands of dollars in fines to 'limewire' users who obviously can't afford to pay them, how about tackling the cause of piracy to begin with? Isn't that a better use of resources? Why are people downloading music instead of buying it, or software, or anything? [i]Because it's too fucking expensive.[/i] Look at what Valve is doing, with Steam. Steam doesn't just give you a game, or a massive game pack at low cost, it gives you a service where you can re-download that game from their servers for free whenever you need to. A social network, a chat client, your save games stored online. Online gaming with your friends. They provide a service for you, it's like they actually care, and I enthusiastically pay for all my games, because Steam makes it so pleasant. Other big companies should follow their example, because I've never seen another product or service from a company that's actually been good enough to make me happy and eager to pay them the money they're asking. Valve is the only company I can see that's tackling the piracy issue effectively.
This was posted way back in June.
The whole "IT'S JUST COPYING" argument is a lame excuse. You're still making the company lose profit. Rich or not, piracy is never a good thing. [editline]01:39PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Chilean;24754890]I pirate as much as the rest of you but I have the balls to admit it's criminal.[/QUOTE] Exactly. People are just trying to justify their actions.
[QUOTE=Viper the Tiger;24757997]The whole "IT'S JUST COPYING" argument is a lame excuse. You're still making the company lose profit. Rich or not, piracy is never a good thing.[/QUOTE] Most people who pirate would not buy it unless they really wanted it. If they couldn't pirate it there would be no loss in sale for the sale would never happen.
[QUOTE=Viper the Tiger;24757997]The whole "IT'S JUST COPYING" argument is a lame excuse. You're still making the company lose profit. [/QUOTE] :/ Have you even spent a minute to actually think it through? You think everybody who downloads photoshop even [i]has[/i] enough money to buy the full thing? You think every illegal download of Logic Pro comes from somebody who can afford the $500 it costs? Or even would pay for it if they could? Don't be absurd.
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;24749970]The way you're spewing this shit out is incredibly dumb. It takes you a minimum of 3 posts to finally get your usually half-thought-out point across. Fact is, they could earn a hell of a lot more money. Anyone would rather earn 200k a year instead of 100k. Sure, 100k is adequate, but 200k is an enormous improvement. For companies, this means higher budgets for future titles, and thus better games. So theoretically, you could essentially blame piracy for lower quality releases.[/QUOTE] better anything doesn't come from higher budgets. ever
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;24750160]Pretty much everything else has been attempted. Developers are powerless here because of the sheer size of people willing to steal their work, and it's not like the pirate community will suddenly stop downloading software for free. That leaves ISPs and the government to figure something out and they're doing just that. The past 10 years have been our chance at fixing this issue and we haven't done anything about it; it's getting worse, actually. Either the government does something or everyone goes bankrupt.[/QUOTE] Developers would survive if they'd commit to open market, in the fashion industry people steal designs ALL THE TIME, but they do not worry about going out of business now do they? The more you fight and more you close your product out, the more money you lose. they'll bankrupt themselves.
You woudln't pirate a car would you? oh, wait..
Fuck you, I would if I could. [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpcvvy3eqK1qz4a62o1_500.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;24750160]Pretty much everything else has been attempted. Developers are powerless here because of the sheer size of people willing to steal their work, and it's not like the pirate community will suddenly stop downloading software for free. That leaves ISPs and the government to figure something out and they're doing just that. The past 10 years have been our chance at fixing this issue and we haven't done anything about it; it's getting worse, actually. Either the government does something or everyone goes bankrupt.[/QUOTE] Uh, FUCK NO. Nothing has been attempted. Intruisive DRM and other ways they've tried is not attempting anything. You want to pass legislation about piracy? You'll damage a lot of musicians(Most musicians don't give a shit that they're music is getting around freely and cheaply and to more people, hell, they want piracy) and you'll crush internet rights. Government legislation is the last thing. And as everyone else has pointed out, this is just a bad idea.
I like how everyone is crying about rights for a bill against stealing lol
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