E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 Jul 2012 @ 11:45am
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Actually, games from that era were often released in second printings with bug fixes. Final Fantasy 3 for the SNES (FF6 in canon numbering) had a number of bugs in the original release of carts. However, Square Enix released the game in a second printing with a number of those bugs fixed. The original carts are worth far more now than the second printing.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 Jul 2012 @ 11:40am
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I am not so sure about that. Microsoft is sued constantly over patent infringement claims. So is Apple. However, both of those companies are also prolific suers. Why would they be willing to advocate for a change that would negate one aspect of their business?
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 Jul 2012 @ 10:58am
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That would be nice. But even the EFF who has an entire program dedicated to invalidating patents can't do so in an effective and timely fashion. Invalidating a patent requires a lot of time and resources. While crowdsourcing the prior art might help, it is still only a small chunk of the process.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 23 Jul 2012 @ 10:30am
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Talk about a jackass closing line. I don't even have to tweet it to prove you are an idiot.
I'm sorry. You think being a jerk and kicking out fans is the proper way to build a good relationship with said fans? Or is it just that you do not think that people actually care about who it is that creates the music they love?
Being a jerk online has certainly alienated me from several people. There is an article on this site about a game developer who could not release a patch for his game because of the high cost. The fact that the guy is a real jerk has prevented me from caring a lick about his plight. I might have even bought the game had he not been a jerk.
Now you say that things like this would happen less frequently if it went through a PR filer. That is probably true. However, such filters tend to create content that is stale and devoid of personality. People are smart and can tell the difference between a bull PR statement and a human moment from an artist.
Of course another lesson to leran from this is that of restraint and personal responsibility. Something like this would never have happened if MC Chris had exercised a little person restraint in fan interactions. Sure he could have been upset. He might have even posted a tweet to defend his opening act. That is the kind of stuff people like to see. A personal response. Doing what he did caused more harm and disconnect than he would have seen otherwise.
All this means, that if people don't like you, you will not see a cent. That is why I posted that last line. The lesson to learn is to be a person people like or, at the very least, create a persona that people like and they will gladly pay you money.
So it is ok to sit as a judge in which your former employer is the plaintiff as long as your position of employ was not that of a lawyer. Got it. Thanks. everything is clear as day now.
What really makes this worse, is that the takedown of the Romney video was a DMCA takedown while these others are mere region blocks. Seriously. If you are going to dig yourself a nice hole, at least be willing to go all in and use a backhoe.
I recently watched both Legend and Omega Man. Omega Man was a far superior movie. So no complaints from me about the kind of movies available on Netflix.
Both of those companies have government backing to do what they do. They are provided government grants, tax money and protection. They are not operating in anything close to free market.
Coke
Not exactly sure what evil things they are doing. You are the first I have ever read complaining about their "villainous things"
Perhaps we can now get back to how Inman has accused people of theft, when no one has stolen anything
You are correct. He did use the dreaded "theft" word. It is not the correct word to use. It would have been best for him to use the proper term of copyright infringement.
has basically refused to use the DMCA process with regards to funnyjunk and then whined about having to do so to get stuff he doesn't want up taken down
He didn't refuse to use the DMCA process. He realized that it was a pointless and fruitless endeavor that would have eaten more time and effort than he was physically able to do. He realized that even if he did send proper DMCA takedowns for all the comics he found on that one site, for each one taken down, 50 more would have popped up whether on Funnyjunk or elsewhere.
Instead on expending all that energy and resources on a fruitless quest, he instead vented his frustration and then went about his business. Funnyjunk was the one that escalated things.
even when funnyjunk have gone to the lengths of chasing down everything he complains about outside the DMCA process and tried to take them down too.
They did that as a purely reactionary and defensive move than anything else. They had hoped that it would have eased the complaints that Inman and others had against them. They were not required to do so.
And though he hasn't threatened to litigate, which is to his credit, he has otherwise adopted much of the same tone and attitude as the MPAA and RIAA which writers and readers here normally consider to be irrational and unreasonable.
He complained and then went about his business. That is nothing like what the MPAA and the RIAA have done. Had the MPAA/RIAA simply complained about disruptive technology and then went about their business, we would not be having this conversation.
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I'm sorry. You think being a jerk and kicking out fans is the proper way to build a good relationship with said fans? Or is it just that you do not think that people actually care about who it is that creates the music they love?
Being a jerk online has certainly alienated me from several people. There is an article on this site about a game developer who could not release a patch for his game because of the high cost. The fact that the guy is a real jerk has prevented me from caring a lick about his plight. I might have even bought the game had he not been a jerk.
Now you say that things like this would happen less frequently if it went through a PR filer. That is probably true. However, such filters tend to create content that is stale and devoid of personality. People are smart and can tell the difference between a bull PR statement and a human moment from an artist.
Of course another lesson to leran from this is that of restraint and personal responsibility. Something like this would never have happened if MC Chris had exercised a little person restraint in fan interactions. Sure he could have been upset. He might have even posted a tweet to defend his opening act. That is the kind of stuff people like to see. A personal response. Doing what he did caused more harm and disconnect than he would have seen otherwise.
All this means, that if people don't like you, you will not see a cent. That is why I posted that last line. The lesson to learn is to be a person people like or, at the very least, create a persona that people like and they will gladly pay you money.
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Does it ever get tiring being so wrong about Mike's position all the time?
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Both of those companies have government backing to do what they do. They are provided government grants, tax money and protection. They are not operating in anything close to free market.
Coke
Not exactly sure what evil things they are doing. You are the first I have ever read complaining about their "villainous things"
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You are correct. He did use the dreaded "theft" word. It is not the correct word to use. It would have been best for him to use the proper term of copyright infringement.
has basically refused to use the DMCA process with regards to funnyjunk and then whined about having to do so to get stuff he doesn't want up taken down
He didn't refuse to use the DMCA process. He realized that it was a pointless and fruitless endeavor that would have eaten more time and effort than he was physically able to do. He realized that even if he did send proper DMCA takedowns for all the comics he found on that one site, for each one taken down, 50 more would have popped up whether on Funnyjunk or elsewhere.
Instead on expending all that energy and resources on a fruitless quest, he instead vented his frustration and then went about his business. Funnyjunk was the one that escalated things.
even when funnyjunk have gone to the lengths of chasing down everything he complains about outside the DMCA process and tried to take them down too.
They did that as a purely reactionary and defensive move than anything else. They had hoped that it would have eased the complaints that Inman and others had against them. They were not required to do so.
And though he hasn't threatened to litigate, which is to his credit, he has otherwise adopted much of the same tone and attitude as the MPAA and RIAA which writers and readers here normally consider to be irrational and unreasonable.
He complained and then went about his business. That is nothing like what the MPAA and the RIAA have done. Had the MPAA/RIAA simply complained about disruptive technology and then went about their business, we would not be having this conversation.
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