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| Thread ID: 104892 | 2009-11-11 23:19:00 | Beware if you're using a modded Xbox | Speedy Gonzales (78) | Press F1 |
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| 829309 | 2009-11-13 06:41:00 | cough troll, cough cough cough | Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 829310 | 2009-11-13 07:26:00 | Pirates should be banned just as MS is doing, until legal methods of acquiring downloads come at a fair price | gary67 (56) | ||
| 829311 | 2009-11-13 07:30:00 | Also, studios only make money from artists that sell. For every CD that does well the studio has backed a fair amount that don't. It's an expensive industry and that's why you pay lots of money for it. An artist gets paid a stipend per CD sold. Depending on contracts it may only be $2 per CD, but that's still money you're depriving from the artist. There's no getting around that. I assume you are talking about music here. Did you hear about the guy (I think Scottish) who put a song of his on facebook and some studio put a take down notice on it claiming copyright. Trouble was they had no right and it turns out they or another studio had been infringing on his copyright. They really need to get their act together. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 829312 | 2009-11-13 09:50:00 | Which is why you download the playable demo first. I see that as being like a trailer for a movie. They usually stick the best parts in there in the hope that you will spend your money on it. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 829313 | 2009-11-13 10:15:00 | And with your thoughts about the loss of income perhaps we should all start stealing from the shops things that we were not going to buy anyway. after all if we didn't steal it we wouldn't buy it so the makers still would make no money. And that's the problem the studios have, pirating, while it is stealing, is not the same as physically stealing something from a shop or wherever. And the pirates see it as a victimless crime. If you go in to a shop and steal something then the shop has lost something they payed for and now can't sell it so they suffer a loss. When you pirate a game, or whatever, you aren't physically taking something from someone else so they can no longer enjoy it as they still have their game or CD. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 829314 | 2009-11-13 16:42:00 | Dunno how many times I've had to say this - copying movies or audio tracks isn't stealing. It's copyright infringement, which isn't theft - it's a civil matter. On-selling the recordings could be construed as theft, but piracy in itself isn't. |
Greg (193) | ||
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