> handful of people who can't understand this difference
I usually don't agree with M.T., but I can't see the difference either. You talk as if it is self evident. Sure, the ID scanning is weird, but videotaping the event? Anyone can video tape public events. The police do it all the time.
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This so perfectly proves it. If I had to pay for either of these two comments, I'd pay for the original, because the "COW" version is idiotic. We didn't need any government intervention; the market sorted it out. Maybe a few people chuckled at the "COW" version, and they are free to pay for that one.
As long as it is clear who is who, the market will decide where the money will go, and the market is always right.
Warhol couldn't work today. I've been to his museum and while some of his work is great, much of it looks like Prince's painting. This ruling can't be right.
The way I see it, if Prince changed the image enough that people want to buy it over the original, then that proves it is transformative. Otherwise, Cariou could just sell his original. Let the free market decide, as long as there is no confusion.
It is similar to the difference between referencing a work and plagiarizing. If I take a paragraph from another writer and change a word in every sentence, it is not plagiarism.
Looks like fun. I went over there to try it out, and now it costs to use. You get 300 free Xtranormal points when you sign up, which will allow you to make about one movie. So what is their business plan exactly? Not only do the users who generate the content invest their time, but they also have to pay? Ya, that's going to work.
> do not read the comments on the Wired article. There is
> monumental amounts of stupid.
I read them. Basically, the majority are people saying, "I bought it, I can do whatever the hell I want with it". It is also peppered with the typical morons spouting "What is a Gamecast?" and "These hackers are terrorists."
> categorically impossible for piracy to remove value from
> the economy
This is brilliant. It is like the reverse of the Broken Window Fallacy (BWF).
Some idiots actually claimed that the destruction in Japan would help "stimulate" their economy. This is classic Broken Window Fallacy (where a kid breaks a window and everyone is mad until someone points out it creates work for the glazier and praise the kid). Of course, destruction may increase GDP but it never increases wealth.
But think of it in the reverse. If the kid could somehow duplicate the window, would that somehow "deprive" the economy? This is the claim that people who say piracy hurts the economy are saying. This is just the BWF in reverse. Sure, the glazier (or media companies) might be pissed off, but there is _no way_ it could make the whole economy worse.
> But this event is going to cost them a TON MORE with
> MASSIVE Knock on effects.
What are you talking about? A few people have an elevated risk of leukemia? Have you just totally forgot about the BP spill, which was a man made disaster? It's not like someone spilt some coffee on a terminal at the reactor station. They had one of the worst earthquakes in history and I doubt anyone will die because of the nuclear plant failure. I cannot, for the life of me, see how this can be anything but a gold star for the nuclear industry.
Well, I guess its people like you that keep my job in the Oil and Gas industry safe.
Sales tax always results in prices that are not in whole pennies. The point I was making is prices are rounded all the time, to the nearest penny. Get rid of the penny and they will be round to the nearest nickel.
Without a doubt, I'm happier now, with a secure well-paying job, than I was 15 years ago as a struggling grad student. It is mainly that money eliminates the stress of living hand-to-mouth.
However, I think happiness is most affected by expectations. I'd much rather be slightly happy all of the time than really happy some of the time. This is the problem drug-addicts and over-eaters get into: they chase happiness but that only makes the lows lower. They have this roller-coaster of euphoria and depression. The sooner you can accept the fact that lots of time must be spent doing boring tedious things (laundry, dishes, waiting in line) the happier you will be.
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> copy your game and make money off of it
I have experience in board game creation. There is no money in it. Really. They are fun to make and play with your friends but you will never make money from it. Most board games sell a few thousand copies. The best you could do is license the game and get a few cents for every one sold. If you only have one game, what distributer is ever going to talk to you?
Your best bet: create an app and get it into the Android store. Seriously. You have a much better chance of making some money.
PS. it is legal to make a character named Sally Potter.
The only thing that could be patented on board games are devices, like the dice-roller on "pop-o-matic trouble" or maybe the mouse trap in "mouse trap".
The only thing that can be copyrighted on a game is the artwork and the rulebook. I know Mike said the rulebook can't be copyrighted but typical rulebooks have much more verbiage than recipes, especially for complicated games like Catan. If you re-write the rules and don't plagiarize, sure, they aren't copyrightable.
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Much Music got a monopoly for music when it started. This was basically to keep MTV out of Canada. Now, of course, MTV rarely plays music videos (because of the internet and YouTube). Much Music wants to try and change its programming but can't, because it was granted a monopoly with specific terms. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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I usually don't agree with M.T., but I can't see the difference either. You talk as if it is self evident. Sure, the ID scanning is weird, but videotaping the event? Anyone can video tape public events. The police do it all the time.
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> tries to scam you as a consumer are approximatly 3720 to 1.
NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!
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Exercise is not really correlated with weight loss. Not sure how this meme got started. Diet is 10x more effective for weight loss than exercise.
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Re: Re: I am finally starting to understand the appropriation argument
As long as it is clear who is who, the market will decide where the money will go, and the market is always right.
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Warhol
The way I see it, if Prince changed the image enough that people want to buy it over the original, then that proves it is transformative. Otherwise, Cariou could just sell his original. Let the free market decide, as long as there is no confusion.
It is similar to the difference between referencing a work and plagiarizing. If I take a paragraph from another writer and change a word in every sentence, it is not plagiarism.
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> growth in all other areas
Really? I don't ever remember TechDirt advocating big government.
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Xtranormal points?
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> monumental amounts of stupid.
I read them. Basically, the majority are people saying, "I bought it, I can do whatever the hell I want with it". It is also peppered with the typical morons spouting "What is a Gamecast?" and "These hackers are terrorists."
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> the economy
This is brilliant. It is like the reverse of the Broken Window Fallacy (BWF).
Some idiots actually claimed that the destruction in Japan would help "stimulate" their economy. This is classic Broken Window Fallacy (where a kid breaks a window and everyone is mad until someone points out it creates work for the glazier and praise the kid). Of course, destruction may increase GDP but it never increases wealth.
But think of it in the reverse. If the kid could somehow duplicate the window, would that somehow "deprive" the economy? This is the claim that people who say piracy hurts the economy are saying. This is just the BWF in reverse. Sure, the glazier (or media companies) might be pissed off, but there is _no way_ it could make the whole economy worse.
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> MASSIVE Knock on effects.
What are you talking about? A few people have an elevated risk of leukemia? Have you just totally forgot about the BP spill, which was a man made disaster? It's not like someone spilt some coffee on a terminal at the reactor station. They had one of the worst earthquakes in history and I doubt anyone will die because of the nuclear plant failure. I cannot, for the life of me, see how this can be anything but a gold star for the nuclear industry.
Well, I guess its people like you that keep my job in the Oil and Gas industry safe.
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I think it would be safer to float them with helium ballons. Then if there is a problem, we can just cut the tethers and let them float to the moon.
Oh wait, that's just stupid.
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Sales tax always results in prices that are not in whole pennies. The point I was making is prices are rounded all the time, to the nearest penny. Get rid of the penny and they will be round to the nearest nickel.
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Money does buy happiness
However, I think happiness is most affected by expectations. I'd much rather be slightly happy all of the time than really happy some of the time. This is the problem drug-addicts and over-eaters get into: they chase happiness but that only makes the lows lower. They have this roller-coaster of euphoria and depression. The sooner you can accept the fact that lots of time must be spent doing boring tedious things (laundry, dishes, waiting in line) the happier you will be.
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> rules for "up or down" on prices.
There are already "up or down" rules on prices. Sales taxes doesn't result in prices in whole pennies.
Pennies are a sentimental tax the old people put on the young. Give it 30 years, and we won't have hard currency anymore.
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Re: Re: Re: If it was YOUR game you wouldn't want others stealing it
I have experience in board game creation. There is no money in it. Really. They are fun to make and play with your friends but you will never make money from it. Most board games sell a few thousand copies. The best you could do is license the game and get a few cents for every one sold. If you only have one game, what distributer is ever going to talk to you?
Your best bet: create an app and get it into the Android store. Seriously. You have a much better chance of making some money.
PS. it is legal to make a character named Sally Potter.
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The only thing that could be patented on board games are devices, like the dice-roller on "pop-o-matic trouble" or maybe the mouse trap in "mouse trap".
The only thing that can be copyrighted on a game is the artwork and the rulebook. I know Mike said the rulebook can't be copyrighted but typical rulebooks have much more verbiage than recipes, especially for complicated games like Catan. If you re-write the rules and don't plagiarize, sure, they aren't copyrightable.
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That is why you run in a zig-zag.
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