wonderful thought. I'd just like to thank the American government for the pressure it put on the New Zealand government, and said later government for being such spineless idiots, leading to it no longer being legal for stores to give you said refunds here. (most of them used to... not that anyone took advantage of it. EULAs for standardized, mass produced, functionally unsupported software were never exactly smart...)
"How can a remake (and with that a complete remake) of this game infringe on someone's copyright? "
the only parts of a game where copyright makes any sense is the art elements and the story/plot.
if the game is a remake, the second is copied almost by definition. for the first not to be would require someone to do all the required new artwork (car designs, i guess?)
at least, that's the logic my brain automatically applied to the statement.
for making money off of a comic available for free online, pirated or otherwise, i encourage you to go look at ... umm... a reasonable number of well known webcomics, actually.
i know for a fact that the author of Megatokyo makes his living off his comic (well, the associated store. one of the products in which is the hardcopy of the comic). a comic, it should be noted, which is available for free online (in fact, he cops the expense of making it so.) it has also been translated into other languages, by other people, and again put up for free online (at different sites).
that said, he makes his money off scarce goods, not the infinite ones. (books, shirts, posters, coffie mugs, blankets, all sorts of stuff)
other webcomics do something similar. just got to look around.
other than that, one really needs evidence to back up whether it works for others or not. the problem is, for it to work for others, said others have to do it Right, and what is right in this context varies depending on the exact situation... if they do it 'right' and it still doesn't work, of course, then the whole thing's a failure, sure.
the question comes down to: is it piracy that's the problem, or is it the author's inability to take advantage of the resulting public awareness? to be honest, if your work is actually good, the number of people who would have bought your work and don't because it's available free is probably in the single digits (unless they hate your publisher but you're so awesome they would cave and buy it anyway but... 'oh! free! don't have to give money to the evil!', but that's a separate issue), while the number who would not have bought it due to not being aware of it or not knowing how good it is reduces, partially to people who decide it's definitely what they want, and do go buy it (gained sales!) and partially to people who now know it's not what they want and don't (these are not sales. these are people who, had they bought it, may have felt ripped off and thus avoiding any later works, who now at the very least have a higher opinion of you than they might otherwise, making some them at least a little easier to convince if you make a different product later)
... or at least, this is my understanding of things.
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ya know, if those names were in any way applicable, the 'conservatives' would be against unnecessary change, and the liberals would be fore greater personal freedoms (or possibly less government control of the marketplace. i forget which...)
just, you know, an fyi of what the terms actually meant before american politicians got hold of them.
please do remember that, when the empire existed, generally speaking those places that were part of it had a choice between Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch, Portugal, Russia (not all of these at once, mind you, but some combination of the above.) one or another was going to take them over. (Ireland was an exception.)
of those empires, every single one was a worse deal than Britain.
at it's height, and for all it's screw ups (which were usually individuals doing dumb things rather than institutional issues), the British Empire was described as 'the largest system or organised liberty in the history of the world'. quite accurately. (please note that this was After lessons learned from the debacle that lead to the independence of the USA)
in more modern times they have had issues, it's true, though these have come about After they lost the empire, and those having to do with international incidents have a lot more to do with being a major US ally than anything.
... they do, of course, have bizarre legacy legal issues, and the standard 'politicians suck' problems.
also, news flash: said terrorists put a lot more effort into attacks on the US than the UK. the UK gets hit more, if it does, which i do not have information to back up one way or the other, it's because it's Closer and more readily accessible by way of Europe.
but Anonymous Coward's rant is, at best, ill informed.
it gets worse. if i remember how that went down exactly, it was (at least suspected) that it was a marvel employee who made the spiderman character the issue came up over... and marvel itself had been making a big deal in some advertising or something about how you could do just that.
look up the actual event though... i never claim my memory is perfect reguarding these things.
true, though real world experience shows you can't afford to put TOO much faith in people Not to be too stupid to understand how to make things geometrically fit together, either.
i can see the corporate logic... taking profit into account as the only factor, they should go after the third parties if they can possibly win. they'll get more money out of it.
doesn't make it Right, of course.
hopefully Spain can continue to not suck in this regard. it's nice to see 'the system' getting it right, ya know?
Alternatively, someone could have been watching too many Sailor Moon reruns or something...
Maybe they thought he was Tuxedo Mask...
(the guy does, after all, throw armour piercing roses...)
Though him they'd probably arrest for more interesting things than possession of a knife.
all joking aside though, yeah, this is moronic.
When modern 'democracy' eventually reaches sufficient level of tyranny (and it's certainly trying :S), it will most likely go the same way as absolute monarchy. what then shall replace it, i wonder?
err, that said, i don't think the Republican party supports democracy Either, they just don't have it right there in their name, so are not quite so hypocritical on the particular point i was discussing.
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probably not ^_^
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well, as a rule in the modern world, at least.
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witness the above comment thread
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the only parts of a game where copyright makes any sense is the art elements and the story/plot.
if the game is a remake, the second is copied almost by definition. for the first not to be would require someone to do all the required new artwork (car designs, i guess?)
at least, that's the logic my brain automatically applied to the statement.
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i know for a fact that the author of Megatokyo makes his living off his comic (well, the associated store. one of the products in which is the hardcopy of the comic). a comic, it should be noted, which is available for free online (in fact, he cops the expense of making it so.) it has also been translated into other languages, by other people, and again put up for free online (at different sites).
that said, he makes his money off scarce goods, not the infinite ones. (books, shirts, posters, coffie mugs, blankets, all sorts of stuff)
other webcomics do something similar. just got to look around.
other than that, one really needs evidence to back up whether it works for others or not. the problem is, for it to work for others, said others have to do it Right, and what is right in this context varies depending on the exact situation... if they do it 'right' and it still doesn't work, of course, then the whole thing's a failure, sure.
the question comes down to: is it piracy that's the problem, or is it the author's inability to take advantage of the resulting public awareness? to be honest, if your work is actually good, the number of people who would have bought your work and don't because it's available free is probably in the single digits (unless they hate your publisher but you're so awesome they would cave and buy it anyway but... 'oh! free! don't have to give money to the evil!', but that's a separate issue), while the number who would not have bought it due to not being aware of it or not knowing how good it is reduces, partially to people who decide it's definitely what they want, and do go buy it (gained sales!) and partially to people who now know it's not what they want and don't (these are not sales. these are people who, had they bought it, may have felt ripped off and thus avoiding any later works, who now at the very least have a higher opinion of you than they might otherwise, making some them at least a little easier to convince if you make a different product later)
... or at least, this is my understanding of things.
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just, you know, an fyi of what the terms actually meant before american politicians got hold of them.
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of those empires, every single one was a worse deal than Britain.
at it's height, and for all it's screw ups (which were usually individuals doing dumb things rather than institutional issues), the British Empire was described as 'the largest system or organised liberty in the history of the world'. quite accurately. (please note that this was After lessons learned from the debacle that lead to the independence of the USA)
in more modern times they have had issues, it's true, though these have come about After they lost the empire, and those having to do with international incidents have a lot more to do with being a major US ally than anything.
... they do, of course, have bizarre legacy legal issues, and the standard 'politicians suck' problems.
also, news flash: said terrorists put a lot more effort into attacks on the US than the UK. the UK gets hit more, if it does, which i do not have information to back up one way or the other, it's because it's Closer and more readily accessible by way of Europe.
but Anonymous Coward's rant is, at best, ill informed.
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the main difference is sneakyness to explosion ratios...
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look up the actual event though... i never claim my memory is perfect reguarding these things.
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doesn't make it Right, of course.
hopefully Spain can continue to not suck in this regard. it's nice to see 'the system' getting it right, ya know?
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Maybe they thought he was Tuxedo Mask...
(the guy does, after all, throw armour piercing roses...)
Though him they'd probably arrest for more interesting things than possession of a knife.
all joking aside though, yeah, this is moronic.
When modern 'democracy' eventually reaches sufficient level of tyranny (and it's certainly trying :S), it will most likely go the same way as absolute monarchy. what then shall replace it, i wonder?
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in case anyone was confused.
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