So sometimes, yes it is avoiding payment. Deliberately. I don't have 900 dollars to spend on a comic that should've been made readily available. Sometimes I want to pay but I know I will get screwed over if I do. (DRM)
The "whys" of piracy are often the justifications for avoiding payment
Or to avoid DRM which punishes PAYING costumers.
In that case, to NOT pay is the SMART option. I had to find a copy of the game without the malware, it just so -happened- to be free. They could've made the payed version without it and I would've bought it, but they didn't. Their loss.
Or because the actual product is way overpriced for what you're actually getting (900$ fucking dollars for a comic book no I wasn't making this up, it was no longer in print, and there was NO E-Book version of it anywhere except on torrents)
In that case, to NOT pay is also the SMART option. They could've avoided it if they scanned in it and made it available in an E-Book format, but they didn't. So the physical copies became obscenely priced. The E-Book/scanned version just so -happened- to free. They could've made it infinitely available at a sane price, but they didn't. Their loss.
When everything is a remix, it means there is very little new. Don't you find that incredibly boring?
Here's a little secret for you:
'New' is subjective and/or relative.
'Original' is also subjective and/or relative.
Almost everything to a young child is new, but to someone who is older, chances are they've seen it billion times.
I don't personally think there is, or ever was, new or original. Are most things boring for me? Yes, actually. But if you really REALLY like something it won't matter if it's new or original.
I keep getting pepperoni pizza, it's the same damn topping everytime, never gets old for me though, cause that's what I like. But that doesn't mean I like every pepperoni pizza.
Remixes are exactly the same. Just cause they re-use the same content doesn't make them all the same or boring, there's a vast spectrum of remix types, qualities and styles. Just like pizza.
So true. For one thing, you can't find rule 34 of your favorite cartoon/video game characters in the professional porn industry. For those who are into that only the internet can provide it.
(For second thing, the porn industry mostly focuses on men's tastes, what little they've got for women really isn't my thing)
but often what passed for music is remixes and such.
You don't like remixes I take it?
As an industry, as a business, it has been all but wiped out.
So pretending that piracy doesn't have effects is just ignorant.
Of course. When you have these industries that depend on exclusivity and deciding what others get to survive, and suddenly something that allows people to choose what -they- want comes along, the limited one goes first.
It's like evolution, if the world heats up the first ones to die are going to be all of the arctic, boreal and tundric animals. On the other hand, the numbers and variety of heat adapted creatures will explode.
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& Walmart, half the time the workers are off doing god knows what playing grab ass with eachother, boxes clutter the aisles, can't find nothing. They don't know/don't care.
& the banks suck, steal your money, screw you over. They don't care.
It's cause they've gotten used to being the 'bigshots' everyone depends on, they know even if they treat their customers like shit and screw them over every chance they get they won't suffer any repercussions for it. People will just grumble to themselves and carry on with the screwing.
Everyone figures they don't have a choice, screwing or go without, maybe that's a big part of the problem.
They can't fathom that someone is playing, listening, reading, watching their work without paying for it. They see no benefit in it. This mindset has dangerous outcomes for their paying customers.
Mm hmm. "Let's just throw some shit together with half ass costumer service cause we know those dumbasses will buy it" syndrome.
the only use that is fair, is when they get paid every time your body consumes the content.
If you're livin in a bubble and you haven't got a care
Well, you're gonna be in trouble, gonna copyright your air
What you got is what we need ($$$) and all we do is dirty deeds
We're the IPballs, Watch Out! we're the IPballs
We're the master of IP
Hey, Don't mess around with the IPballs
Sometimes I question if I have become as childish, obsessed and depraved as the trolls. It's gotten to a point where I would just like to get over it and forget about the whole mess.
Problem is, how do you get over about something that is being CONSTANTLY shoved down your throat? How do you forget something that is CONSTANTLY reminding you of it's existence by removing sites/songs/videos/mods/art/etc; things you use to forget about it?
I was gonna say something else but I have no other words for this between the sad whiny emo story, the whole fight with the judge and what the "infringing" lyrics where...
Same way toddlers kick and scream until people cave in and give them what they want to make it stop.
The whole suit is like a classic textbook example of IP-spoiled artist behaviour, see something you don't like, throw a tantrum, receive pandering. Playing out like a script memorized by all parties involved, and acted out like a retarded cat fighting a mirror.
Annnd that's why we have to put up with DMCA/DRM and all sorts of other bullshit.
My lifes work was stolen from me,” she wrote in a 13-page complaint riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors. “I am afflicted with pain and suffering and emotional distress.”
I think reality tv has desensitized me to reality.
Seeing (I think it was) Snooki getting out of bed with her hair going everywhere to drop a deuce at wheneverthehellshewakes and then complain on TV "it won't go down where's the plunger" would desensitize anyone I think.
The words 'thinktank' shouldn't be let within 500,000 miles of ITIF and it's masters unless it's involves tanks blasting logical thinking too smithereens.
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It's not a black & white situation.
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Or to avoid DRM which punishes PAYING costumers.
In that case, to NOT pay is the SMART option. I had to find a copy of the game without the malware, it just so -happened- to be free. They could've made the payed version without it and I would've bought it, but they didn't. Their loss.
Or because the actual product is way overpriced for what you're actually getting (900$ fucking dollars for a comic book no I wasn't making this up, it was no longer in print, and there was NO E-Book version of it anywhere except on torrents)
In that case, to NOT pay is also the SMART option. They could've avoided it if they scanned in it and made it available in an E-Book format, but they didn't. So the physical copies became obscenely priced. The E-Book/scanned version just so -happened- to free. They could've made it infinitely available at a sane price, but they didn't. Their loss.
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Here's a little secret for you:
'New' is subjective and/or relative.
'Original' is also subjective and/or relative.
Almost everything to a young child is new, but to someone who is older, chances are they've seen it billion times.
I don't personally think there is, or ever was, new or original. Are most things boring for me? Yes, actually. But if you really REALLY like something it won't matter if it's new or original.
I keep getting pepperoni pizza, it's the same damn topping everytime, never gets old for me though, cause that's what I like. But that doesn't mean I like every pepperoni pizza.
Remixes are exactly the same. Just cause they re-use the same content doesn't make them all the same or boring, there's a vast spectrum of remix types, qualities and styles. Just like pizza.
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What you gonna do when all the ice melts?
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Kool-aid shower. I'm pirating that one.
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(For second thing, the porn industry mostly focuses on men's tastes, what little they've got for women really isn't my thing)
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You don't like remixes I take it?
Of course. When you have these industries that depend on exclusivity and deciding what others get to survive, and suddenly something that allows people to choose what -they- want comes along, the limited one goes first.
It's like evolution, if the world heats up the first ones to die are going to be all of the arctic, boreal and tundric animals. On the other hand, the numbers and variety of heat adapted creatures will explode.
Piracy is cultural evolution.
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& the banks suck, steal your money, screw you over. They don't care.
It's cause they've gotten used to being the 'bigshots' everyone depends on, they know even if they treat their customers like shit and screw them over every chance they get they won't suffer any repercussions for it. People will just grumble to themselves and carry on with the screwing.
Everyone figures they don't have a choice, screwing or go without, maybe that's a big part of the problem.
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Mm hmm. "Let's just throw some shit together with half ass costumer service cause we know those dumbasses will buy it" syndrome.
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If you're livin in a bubble and you haven't got a care
Well, you're gonna be in trouble, gonna copyright your air
What you got is what we need ($$$) and all we do is dirty deeds
We're the IPballs, Watch Out! we're the IPballs
We're the master of IP
Hey, Don't mess around with the IPballs
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Literally.
Sometimes I question if I have become as childish, obsessed and depraved as the trolls. It's gotten to a point where I would just like to get over it and forget about the whole mess.
Problem is, how do you get over about something that is being CONSTANTLY shoved down your throat? How do you forget something that is CONSTANTLY reminding you of it's existence by removing sites/songs/videos/mods/art/etc; things you use to forget about it?
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I think I'm gonna need mental rehabilitation.
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Same way toddlers kick and scream until people cave in and give them what they want to make it stop.
The whole suit is like a classic textbook example of IP-spoiled artist behaviour, see something you don't like, throw a tantrum, receive pandering. Playing out like a script memorized by all parties involved, and acted out like a retarded cat fighting a mirror.
Annnd that's why we have to put up with DMCA/DRM and all sorts of other bullshit.
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Did you cut your wrists too? Jackwagon.
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Seeing (I think it was) Snooki getting out of bed with her hair going everywhere to drop a deuce at wheneverthehellshewakes and then complain on TV "it won't go down where's the plunger" would desensitize anyone I think.
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More like think TANKED
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