While apple didn't have stop these being produced, they do have a very defined brand image (high quality design, simplicity etc), and these figurines really do not fit in with that, and selling them in the apple stores would damage the brand image.
As jay stated DMCA is an American law that applies to American companies. Suggesting TPB follow it is basically saying America as the right to impose it's laws around the world as it sees fit.
Sorry to burst your bubble but one of my dad's friends was making his own 3D models and animations and the like in the early 90's. This was at home with only a personnel computer.
Heck, before then with the amiga we had raytracing renderers.
People seem to regularly exaggerate how far computing has come in the last 15 years.
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I don't know what sort of programs you are decompiling but if you are getting code back that is nearly identical to the original then you have got to be working on some pretty badly coded things.
You would fine someone 10x the cost of the program for running it through a decompiler? Aren't you a nice guy.
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But that was not the original source code, just what the decompiler created. It is impossible to get the original source code. No copyright on decompiled source code.
It's impossible to take an executable file and get the original source code. You can view it as assembly and see how it works, but you can never get to the original source code. So no copyright has been broken in reverse engineering software.
and more people start trying to get into other peoples accounts as a user can request new items based on their insurance, also, insurance scams would be laughably easy.
but for habbo to work at all an artificial scarcity has to exist, for a lot of players a big part of the game is trading, and working with the rareity of items etc.
There are many problems that arise if habbo would just give people the furniture back, ie what if someone traded with the scammer, and now they loose the furniture because it was "stolen goods", how do they get re compensated? This world is designed for young teenagers, how many false reports do you think would happen of they thought they could get free items?
Virtual doesn't mean easy to fix without breaking the game dynamic..think this stuff through or at least learn what habbo is, what it does and who the users are before brushing it all off as "virtual".
The lines are not blurred at all, real world money.
Trading is part of the game, if someone logs into your account and then transfers your furniture to another account, tell me how this is because of an insecure database.
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Heck, before then with the amiga we had raytracing renderers.
People seem to regularly exaggerate how far computing has come in the last 15 years.
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You would fine someone 10x the cost of the program for running it through a decompiler? Aren't you a nice guy.
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There are many problems that arise if habbo would just give people the furniture back, ie what if someone traded with the scammer, and now they loose the furniture because it was "stolen goods", how do they get re compensated? This world is designed for young teenagers, how many false reports do you think would happen of they thought they could get free items?
Virtual doesn't mean easy to fix without breaking the game dynamic..think this stuff through or at least learn what habbo is, what it does and who the users are before brushing it all off as "virtual".
The lines are not blurred at all, real world money.
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real cost = real problem
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Virtual doesn't mean free.
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Trading is part of the game, if someone logs into your account and then transfers your furniture to another account, tell me how this is because of an insecure database.
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