TRENT REZNOR: the reason this comment and some of the others seem out of character is because they are bullshit or if not are forced comments done to appease their labels.
EMINEM for example, I can see him saying that, with a snarky smart ass smile on his face...
(note: i would however love to see him try and kick somebodies ass...eThug vs FreeThug...ROFL)
dont worry tho, Im sure over time they will get more "big names" to give them quotes they can either take out of context or, like many of these types of quotes over the years, get the lable to make them read from a provided rant.
why cant people understand, in the eyes of big content there is no free speech exept their freedom to speek, there is no fair use, there is no public domain, these are all fallacies and illusions they must stomp out.
funny but, walt wasnt the evil one, if you look at how disney has acted since his death and even during his life after he was out of direct control, he would be sick.
he said for example many times he always wanted the price to get into disney parks to be affordable for any American family, if you go check the prices now days, 1 person getting full access is more then a family would cost in his day...even considering inflation.
walt wasnt a fuzzy nice guy, but he wasnt as psychopathic as his successors have been.
he was also a bit of an anti-govt nut from what i have read, he didnt trust the govt,and in some of the designs of his structures and parks it shows, built like bunkers(thick metal doors and such)
just saying, walt isnt the problem anymore then old mr walton was with walmart(he was an honest nice guy by all accounts, unlike his kids who made walmart into what it is today)
mod chips are not merely piracy tools, I have moded dozens of consols so that geeks could play imported games from japan, korea, and even china and india, games you couldnt play on them otherwise due to idiotic regional lockouts.
you could buy a console for each country, BUT in some cases you would also need a tv from said country to use them(pal vs ntsc for example)
honestly its cheaper and easier to just mod the console and play the games.
in no way does this hurt the publisher or company who sold the console, it infact makes it more useful, yes by extension most mod chips allow playing of copied games, so what, its not like most people could do the mods I did, not many people I have met can solder, let alone well enough to do the mod with the best kinda mod chips....
With the xbox you could software mod it but, if you did the hardware mod it worked better in many cases, not sure why, dont really care.
because you dont own anything you buy anymore, if you read the license you agree to when you buy these items, you will see, you are only allowed to use them as long as and how the manufacturer sees fit.
its much like owning land in this country, your only allowed to do on/with your land what the govt says you can.
and if the govt wants your land they can and will take it and pay you as little as possible.
again according to the industry we own NOTHING anymore, we buy it but are not allowed to modify it in any way....
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I have said for some time now, that republican or democrat your looking at 2 sides of the same rotting wooden nickle...
I dont think bush or obama's intent is to screw the rest of us over, the problem is they dont really get how their actions effect the rest of us.
they are rich, they are powerful, they forget or have never known what its like to be poor and powerless.
Its like a man I once worked for, he grew up dirt poor, and would talk about it and how much it sucked and how bad it was to treat people like crap because they dont have money, but then he would treat his employees like crap, and expected us to like it and thank him.
his own wife(nice down to earth woman) would call him on it at times, sadly it never had any lasting effect because, he was rich and nolonger needed to give a shit about the little people who kept making him richer.
the upper 1% look down at us and see "little people" (aka shit), we look up and see assholes...tricking down on us(see shitting on us)
saddly, the only real fix would be to put people in power who didnt want that power, and that wont happen because the only vote options we have are already looking down on us and owned by their real supporters(other rich assholes)
meh, it is what it is, im starting to think a friend of mine from the UK is correct, its going to take a violant upheaval/revolution or another(yet successful) Guy Fawkes style event...
its sad, but, I dont think the Incorporated states of american can stand if we keep heading down this road or corporations having all the rights and the people none.
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1. MS didnt steal MS-DOS, they paid for it, granted they paid very little, but still at lest they paid.
2. MS was orignally founded as a software firm that just made office software, only expanding into the OS market due to a need for an option other then apple.
I dont like MS but the facts are the facts, MS didnt steal dos, and they didnt start out with dos, their first software was for apple.
on the other hand, your correct about apple being founded on theft, steve jobs admitted he and apple where thieves in a video interview.
"good artists copy, great artists steal" yet, the funny part to me is, years later he said he would "Destroy android because its a stolen product" ROFL.....
depends on where you live and what context its used in what # means.
to people who use the phone alot its the "pound sign" to people who use the computer alot it depends on country and vocation, most people i know call it the number sign.
the comment was ment to be smart ass since, as i said my grand mother would have called that the pound sign.
with ebooks its not so much safety thats the issue or drm, its quality thats the issue with p2p copies, most of them are hand scanned by people and then converted to a text based file by a program.
many of them are un-proofed or poorly proofed full of messed up words and random characters.
I know this because a few out of print books I wanted where only available via torrents(couldn't even find used copies in reasonable condition).
I ended up having to proof them myself as i read the best I could....quite annoying......
thats also another reason some people turn to p2p for ebooks, you just cant get some books in ebook or even print format anymore, now the books i was talking about above came back into print 2 years after i torrented them, but still have no official ebooks....
I even emailed the author and he said he had been fighting with is publisher for years trying to get his stuff out in ebook format and they wouldnt do it without re-negotiating his contract....(they wanted the bulk of the money from ebook sales, with his current contract he would get more then them)
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its a mix im sure, doing regular sales makes money for steam, and im sure it would make money for ebook vendors/publishers as well.
and note: my numbers dont count anything but people who directly got the game due to my influence, each of those sales has a whole slew of people who bought thanks to them.
the sames true for books(ebook or pulp dosnt matter) if people are talking about it, more people will buy it....
please dont blame the author for this, I know its hard to separate those feelings, I have a friend who HATED one of my favorite authors not due to his works, but because a prof at his school required one of his works for a class he was forced to take.
he was forced to buy a 2nd hand hard cover because people who knew what was coming had cleaned out every local new and used book store's copies of the paperback.
the place that still had copies had used book club editions....at 18bucks each(no, im not kidding...i saw images of the price tag and recept)
he couldnt enjoy the book feeling so slighted by the price....
a couple years later I managed to get him to read the guys first book, without him realizing it was from that author, he got threw the first book and was calling me and messeging me online over and over wanting to know who it was by and where he could get the rest of the series...
the next day, he had gone to a large used book store in a nearby city and came home with new and used copies of every work the author had ever done or co-wrote.
I dont blame you for feeling adverse to the school or teacher, or even the book, but please, dont blame the author.
note: the books above where "fairy tail" and "magician" by Raymond E Feist. im really not sure why the instructor/teacher picked "Fairy Tail" but he did....
happens far more then you would think, I have a friend who has bought a bunch of shows like weeds, hung, sparticus, exct after having seen them all thanks to torrents.
but heres the kicker, hes got relatives who also got to see thanks to him uploading he files to a file hosting/streaming site and letting them watch an episode or 2, full seasons bought at full price thanks to the evils of "piracy"
much of the music, video and game content I have bought over the past 2 decades has been thanks to being able to try it before i bought it, and what hasnt been was bought due to good word of mouth, much of that due to "piracy"
most other "pirates" I know are the same way, I got one buddy whos got 8 2tb hdd's in his home server, 4 in his main rig, and at least 2 each as storage drives in the other systems in his home, they all have stuff on them that hes torrented, BUT heres the thing, hes also bought 98% of what hes torrented, the stuff he hasnt bought you either cant buy here, or cant buy at all(old john wayne stuff for example)
hes downloaded far more then hes bought but, everything hes liked or that his family has liked hes bought legally, many times they keep the torrented files because, lets be honest, they are easier to watch on a computer of over the network via the HTPC then dealing with stupid plastic disks.
I wasnt sure he was being honest till i spent close to 2 months helping him catalog his stuff and get it into a database(make it easier to keep track of), hes even imported alot of stuff like anime that never got picked up by any us company, ofcorse he keeps the fansubs because, he like myself knows very little Japanese....
(dude has 3 large floor to celling bookshelves of imported anime alone...now thats dedication...)
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the blocks only at the DNS level.
hell change your dns to google dns and bam, bypassed.
google dns
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
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EMINEM for example, I can see him saying that, with a snarky smart ass smile on his face...
(note: i would however love to see him try and kick somebodies ass...eThug vs FreeThug...ROFL)
dont worry tho, Im sure over time they will get more "big names" to give them quotes they can either take out of context or, like many of these types of quotes over the years, get the lable to make them read from a provided rant.
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he said for example many times he always wanted the price to get into disney parks to be affordable for any American family, if you go check the prices now days, 1 person getting full access is more then a family would cost in his day...even considering inflation.
walt wasnt a fuzzy nice guy, but he wasnt as psychopathic as his successors have been.
he was also a bit of an anti-govt nut from what i have read, he didnt trust the govt,and in some of the designs of his structures and parks it shows, built like bunkers(thick metal doors and such)
just saying, walt isnt the problem anymore then old mr walton was with walmart(he was an honest nice guy by all accounts, unlike his kids who made walmart into what it is today)
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mod chips are not simply for piracy.
you could buy a console for each country, BUT in some cases you would also need a tv from said country to use them(pal vs ntsc for example)
honestly its cheaper and easier to just mod the console and play the games.
in no way does this hurt the publisher or company who sold the console, it infact makes it more useful, yes by extension most mod chips allow playing of copied games, so what, its not like most people could do the mods I did, not many people I have met can solder, let alone well enough to do the mod with the best kinda mod chips....
With the xbox you could software mod it but, if you did the hardware mod it worked better in many cases, not sure why, dont really care.
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its much like owning land in this country, your only allowed to do on/with your land what the govt says you can.
and if the govt wants your land they can and will take it and pay you as little as possible.
again according to the industry we own NOTHING anymore, we buy it but are not allowed to modify it in any way....
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I dont think bush or obama's intent is to screw the rest of us over, the problem is they dont really get how their actions effect the rest of us.
they are rich, they are powerful, they forget or have never known what its like to be poor and powerless.
Its like a man I once worked for, he grew up dirt poor, and would talk about it and how much it sucked and how bad it was to treat people like crap because they dont have money, but then he would treat his employees like crap, and expected us to like it and thank him.
his own wife(nice down to earth woman) would call him on it at times, sadly it never had any lasting effect because, he was rich and nolonger needed to give a shit about the little people who kept making him richer.
the upper 1% look down at us and see "little people" (aka shit), we look up and see assholes...tricking down on us(see shitting on us)
saddly, the only real fix would be to put people in power who didnt want that power, and that wont happen because the only vote options we have are already looking down on us and owned by their real supporters(other rich assholes)
meh, it is what it is, im starting to think a friend of mine from the UK is correct, its going to take a violant upheaval/revolution or another(yet successful) Guy Fawkes style event...
its sad, but, I dont think the Incorporated states of american can stand if we keep heading down this road or corporations having all the rights and the people none.
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2. MS was orignally founded as a software firm that just made office software, only expanding into the OS market due to a need for an option other then apple.
I dont like MS but the facts are the facts, MS didnt steal dos, and they didnt start out with dos, their first software was for apple.
on the other hand, your correct about apple being founded on theft, steve jobs admitted he and apple where thieves in a video interview.
"good artists copy, great artists steal" yet, the funny part to me is, years later he said he would "Destroy android because its a stolen product" ROFL.....
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to people who use the phone alot its the "pound sign" to people who use the computer alot it depends on country and vocation, most people i know call it the number sign.
the comment was ment to be smart ass since, as i said my grand mother would have called that the pound sign.
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many of them are un-proofed or poorly proofed full of messed up words and random characters.
I know this because a few out of print books I wanted where only available via torrents(couldn't even find used copies in reasonable condition).
I ended up having to proof them myself as i read the best I could....quite annoying......
thats also another reason some people turn to p2p for ebooks, you just cant get some books in ebook or even print format anymore, now the books i was talking about above came back into print 2 years after i torrented them, but still have no official ebooks....
I even emailed the author and he said he had been fighting with is publisher for years trying to get his stuff out in ebook format and they wouldnt do it without re-negotiating his contract....(they wanted the bulk of the money from ebook sales, with his current contract he would get more then them)
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and note: my numbers dont count anything but people who directly got the game due to my influence, each of those sales has a whole slew of people who bought thanks to them.
the sames true for books(ebook or pulp dosnt matter) if people are talking about it, more people will buy it....
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he was forced to buy a 2nd hand hard cover because people who knew what was coming had cleaned out every local new and used book store's copies of the paperback.
the place that still had copies had used book club editions....at 18bucks each(no, im not kidding...i saw images of the price tag and recept)
he couldnt enjoy the book feeling so slighted by the price....
a couple years later I managed to get him to read the guys first book, without him realizing it was from that author, he got threw the first book and was calling me and messeging me online over and over wanting to know who it was by and where he could get the rest of the series...
the next day, he had gone to a large used book store in a nearby city and came home with new and used copies of every work the author had ever done or co-wrote.
I dont blame you for feeling adverse to the school or teacher, or even the book, but please, dont blame the author.
note: the books above where "fairy tail" and "magician" by Raymond E Feist. im really not sure why the instructor/teacher picked "Fairy Tail" but he did....
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but heres the kicker, hes got relatives who also got to see thanks to him uploading he files to a file hosting/streaming site and letting them watch an episode or 2, full seasons bought at full price thanks to the evils of "piracy"
much of the music, video and game content I have bought over the past 2 decades has been thanks to being able to try it before i bought it, and what hasnt been was bought due to good word of mouth, much of that due to "piracy"
most other "pirates" I know are the same way, I got one buddy whos got 8 2tb hdd's in his home server, 4 in his main rig, and at least 2 each as storage drives in the other systems in his home, they all have stuff on them that hes torrented, BUT heres the thing, hes also bought 98% of what hes torrented, the stuff he hasnt bought you either cant buy here, or cant buy at all(old john wayne stuff for example)
hes downloaded far more then hes bought but, everything hes liked or that his family has liked hes bought legally, many times they keep the torrented files because, lets be honest, they are easier to watch on a computer of over the network via the HTPC then dealing with stupid plastic disks.
I wasnt sure he was being honest till i spent close to 2 months helping him catalog his stuff and get it into a database(make it easier to keep track of), hes even imported alot of stuff like anime that never got picked up by any us company, ofcorse he keeps the fansubs because, he like myself knows very little Japanese....
(dude has 3 large floor to celling bookshelves of imported anime alone...now thats dedication...)
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