This article made me decide never to put money into this new Simcity. It may look awesome, but these kinds of trouble will put me off gaming. I'll stick with Simcity 2000 and 3000.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike Masnick, supporter of legislated monopoly:
Yeah, but you don't include the team that holds the title "World Champions" (that would be the Dutch, btw), nor many of the other nations that play baseball.
1 team from canadia
gazillion teams from the USA.
Hardly 'world', is it?
No one is saying that they can't exercize their exclusionary rights.
Of course there is copyright on the bloody movie, it's after all published in this day and age, where everything is copyrighted by default.
And of course are the makers allowed to ask money for the sale of the discs and the digital goods, they are and people are paying to see the movie.
No one (absolutely no one) has said that the makers can't ask money for their product.
You keep insisting that the point of Techdirt is that stuff be available for free all the time, which is blatantly false, and a complete strawman of your own devising. Free stuff can be used for promotional goals, but it doesn't have to be.
Re: The real story: $52527 /294 = 178.66 average contribution...
You are looking at 1 successful project and conclude that crowdsourcing has failed?
Another thing, we don't say it's the be-all-end-all of funding anything in this world, it's ONE way of funding your project, another would be to go to angel investors, or raking up humongous credit card bills, or having a rich mommy and daddy, or going to a major movie studio and demand 10+million USD for your own project.
And we also never said that it was *new*. It's just now becoming easier to do on a global scale.
Kickstarter is nothing but a fancy ESCROW service.
BTW, where are these free products? People paid to get the movie funded, and people who want to watch it are asked to pay to see it (either through a movie ticket or through itunes or some other distribution platform).
Three strikes, Out_of_the_blue, I'm afraid you're out.
Re: Re: At last you've gotten to the concept of what belongs to others:
Out of the blue doesn't care much for facts and reality. He's perfectly fine in that weird bubble of his. He's rejected our reality, and tries to substitutes his own. Except he's not Adam Savage, and Ootb only brings forth myths instead of busting them.
That long history of people calling it theft, has an equally long history of people berating those idiots.
It's not theft, never has been, never will be.
Please do call it infringement, as that's much more accurate.
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Actually, I like the term smuggler better! Too bad smugglers don't have a distinct accent, or a peg leg. Arrrr.
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Won't buy it then.
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Matherne speaks gibberish.
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*update 2* I have just learned that the monkeys are now in fact running the zoo.
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You hear that?
Ahow628's comment just went over your head.
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Also, what Obama is proposing for the US is far removed from a socialist state. Please read up on what certain words mean before you use them.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike Masnick, supporter of legislated monopoly:
1 team from canadia
gazillion teams from the USA.
Hardly 'world', is it?
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Re: Re: Mike Masnick, supporter of legislated monopoly:
That said, go Tigers!
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They can sell stuff that's not covered by copyright. But you're too stupid to accept that.
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Of course there is copyright on the bloody movie, it's after all published in this day and age, where everything is copyrighted by default.
And of course are the makers allowed to ask money for the sale of the discs and the digital goods, they are and people are paying to see the movie.
No one (absolutely no one) has said that the makers can't ask money for their product.
You keep insisting that the point of Techdirt is that stuff be available for free all the time, which is blatantly false, and a complete strawman of your own devising. Free stuff can be used for promotional goals, but it doesn't have to be.
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Re: The real story: $52527 /294 = 178.66 average contribution...
Another thing, we don't say it's the be-all-end-all of funding anything in this world, it's ONE way of funding your project, another would be to go to angel investors, or raking up humongous credit card bills, or having a rich mommy and daddy, or going to a major movie studio and demand 10+million USD for your own project.
And we also never said that it was *new*. It's just now becoming easier to do on a global scale.
Kickstarter is nothing but a fancy ESCROW service.
BTW, where are these free products? People paid to get the movie funded, and people who want to watch it are asked to pay to see it (either through a movie ticket or through itunes or some other distribution platform).
Three strikes, Out_of_the_blue, I'm afraid you're out.
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Re: Piracy STILL wrong despite corporate abuses!
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It's not theft, never has been, never will be.
Please do call it infringement, as that's much more accurate.
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