I, as a Dutch European, have given up to care. These morons will continue to drive their own business into the meat grinder with the constant extending of the copyright term.
We all know that the European Government is as corrupt as it is wasteful, and they'll never listen to the citizens.
We, the people, will never be able enact change in certain respects.
Just look at in how many ways the politicians are trying to get software patents approved in the EU.
Money talks, votes don't count. Just dazzle the people with a bauble, and some meaningless chatter with a lot of juicy soundbites, around election time. And then give the voters the shaft when you're in office.
Ah the culture of ownership at its finest. I'm sure that Summit will sue the gods next for having the gaul to invent something like twilight...
or how about Rod Serling for creating a show called "Twilight Zone".
The public fails to compete? Compete with what?
What are you suggesting?
How can the public compete with Mr Moneybags the lobbyist and Mr Corrupt Politician?
There are also no business models to support the locked-up content. In fact an enormous amount of our intellectual culture are now going to waste, all because of the greed of a few stupid-as-fuck MAFIAA-scumbags.
Old music, books and movies that are now left rotting on shelves, because the Big Content companies feel that there's no money in restoring them, and getting a license to make a legal backup for preservation's sake are prohibitively expensive. And why? So that Disney Co can still keep the copyright on their stolen Mouse icon.
If anyone was looking for proof of corruption in the EU
it's right here. There wasn't so much as a debate on it. They just rubberstamped this.
And they loudly complain and wonder why so few people trust the politicians in Brussels (and Strasbourg).
Gee, do ya think maybe because you put corporate interests before the public's?
They waste our tax-money, make up ridiculous laws that make very little sense on a national scale, they never listen to the interest of the people (apart from very few notable exceptions).
If it were up to me, we'd disband this whole European Government thing, and give the reigns back to national governments. (Not that they are much better, but at least we have a more direct influence on them, Europe is abstracted away from the people.)
I know that's very right-wing of me, even though I'm normally quite left-wing socialistic. But in the European Governments' case, it's worse than the disease it was supposed to battle.
The flaw being that Ubisoft (and EA and all those other big game publishers) treat their paying customers as thieving scum. That's the flaw in their business model.
They are so obsessed over a couple of pirated copies that they'll risk their own goodwill, their own company and their own fans to get to them. At all costs.
Piracy might have an effect on their bottom line, though I have yet to see proof of it. Usually the big ticket items, the ones that already sell like hot cakes are also the ones highly pirated. So I don't really see a benefit for them to go after these 'pirates'.
Well, in any case, they have lost me as a paying customer, in fact I don't play their games at all anymore. I'm much more willing to sink my money in the Indie Bundles and in whatever game Notch is producing next, than spend one more cent on a game by a company that doesn't listen to its customers, that would much rather criminalize their customers by crippling products to the point that the pirated material offers more than the legally purchased material does.
Looks more like rabies to me.. the frothing of the mouth by the politicians shouting about how terrorism is destroying America, while they themselves wipe their dirty feet on the constitution. The clearly irrational fear shown.
The FCC has no jurisdiction in The Netherlands.
It's not about 'intellectual property' but rather about broadcast-licensing.
And the post isn't even about getting rid of a monopoly power of a government.
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In other words, I'm a complete moron and I don't read so good.
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We all know that the European Government is as corrupt as it is wasteful, and they'll never listen to the citizens.
We, the people, will never be able enact change in certain respects.
Just look at in how many ways the politicians are trying to get software patents approved in the EU.
Money talks, votes don't count. Just dazzle the people with a bauble, and some meaningless chatter with a lot of juicy soundbites, around election time. And then give the voters the shaft when you're in office.
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Culture of Ownership
or how about Rod Serling for creating a show called "Twilight Zone".
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What are you suggesting?
How can the public compete with Mr Moneybags the lobbyist and Mr Corrupt Politician?
There are also no business models to support the locked-up content. In fact an enormous amount of our intellectual culture are now going to waste, all because of the greed of a few stupid-as-fuck MAFIAA-scumbags.
Old music, books and movies that are now left rotting on shelves, because the Big Content companies feel that there's no money in restoring them, and getting a license to make a legal backup for preservation's sake are prohibitively expensive. And why? So that Disney Co can still keep the copyright on their stolen Mouse icon.
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If anyone was looking for proof of corruption in the EU
And they loudly complain and wonder why so few people trust the politicians in Brussels (and Strasbourg).
Gee, do ya think maybe because you put corporate interests before the public's?
They waste our tax-money, make up ridiculous laws that make very little sense on a national scale, they never listen to the interest of the people (apart from very few notable exceptions).
If it were up to me, we'd disband this whole European Government thing, and give the reigns back to national governments. (Not that they are much better, but at least we have a more direct influence on them, Europe is abstracted away from the people.)
I know that's very right-wing of me, even though I'm normally quite left-wing socialistic. But in the European Governments' case, it's worse than the disease it was supposed to battle.
Oh, and give me back my guilder!
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They are so obsessed over a couple of pirated copies that they'll risk their own goodwill, their own company and their own fans to get to them. At all costs.
Piracy might have an effect on their bottom line, though I have yet to see proof of it. Usually the big ticket items, the ones that already sell like hot cakes are also the ones highly pirated. So I don't really see a benefit for them to go after these 'pirates'.
Well, in any case, they have lost me as a paying customer, in fact I don't play their games at all anymore. I'm much more willing to sink my money in the Indie Bundles and in whatever game Notch is producing next, than spend one more cent on a game by a company that doesn't listen to its customers, that would much rather criminalize their customers by crippling products to the point that the pirated material offers more than the legally purchased material does.
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Perhaps they should be put to death?
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Makes me wonder
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It's not about 'intellectual property' but rather about broadcast-licensing.
And the post isn't even about getting rid of a monopoly power of a government.
Strike 3! You'rrrrrrre OUT!
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