Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
It's copyright infringement. If they can actually find a way enforce it.
I'd rather be busted for stealing, on what would amount to petty larceny, than face those types of charges.
A digital image is not even property, it's intellectual property, the media it is stored on is the actual property. You are the author and own the rights to the art. You own the copyright. If someone copies the image they are not stealing, they are infringing on your copyright. If they steal your USB stick that holds the PSD (or whatever original format you used) - that would be stealing, of a USB stick. Unless that was the only copy - then it will be stealing of the digital image. Because you no longer have it.
it's a copyright infringement. An illegal act in and of itself. What you are doing is going silly.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
The U.S. is a fully functioning oligarchy pretending to be a democracy when its actually supposed to be a republic.
If you think my vote has equal footing with one of the Koch brothers then that's just denial of the simple and obvious reality of the situation. Rupert Murdoch has more say in the U.S. because he can catch eyeballs with all of this media outlets - and he became a naturalized citizen precisely so he could use his vast wealth to peddle political influence. Just FYI, Murdoch is Fox and a bunch more besides.
Endus stated something equally obtuse a few weeks back, and such a statement is no truer now than it was then.
And here's a funny thing, the law isn't supposed to work as you seem to imagine it should. We aren't supposed to have the rule of the elected or even rule of the majority. What we are supposed to have is a set of protected rights regardless of arbitrary law making.
There has never been a good reason to extend any of our existing patent or copyright laws. We did so because media moguls have greater influence than do a majority of regular persons that would probably oppose these extensions if they actually understood what was at stake. I am not claiming that a majority should rule out over minority rights, what I am claiming instead is that the commons belong to everyone but that nobody defends the rights of the silent legion of persons that share the commons. That simple fact gives tremendous influence into the hands of a morally and philosophically bankrupt group that are operating purely on the basis of greed.
I mean, is there really zero irony in that Disney is critically responsible for copyright extensions and yet their own wealth is predicated significantly on material derived from works in the commons? There is no Disney Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, etc without the commons. Those works can't exist without the commons and yet now Disney extends copyrights protecting their own unique interpretation of the those works. I get that Mickey Mouse is in there somewhere, but when was the last time they made a serious Mickey Mouse thing?
Once again, you can't create a special patent or a copyright without first removing a work from the commons and placing it in a special and protected legal category for some arbitrary period of time.
If you want to talk about stealing, start with that.
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By that same logic everyone who works for a living because they're not tech savvy enough to counterfeit their own money is a tool.
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In some cases, like some of those you mentioned, the original copyright holder and their families are long since dead, and therefore the rights to the property fell into the public domain. Such as music from guys like Bach and Beethoven. In others Disney negotiated with the patent holders to make content based on the property of the person. For instance when they made the movie Mary Poppins they struck a deal with the person who wrote the book to use that person's property as a basis for their movie. The author didn't like the movie, hated it in fact, and refused to allow Disney to make movies of any of the rest of their books even though they wanted to, as was thier right.
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
First off, most libraries are run by government entities. Often, the books are donated by those same publishing companies. Not only that, books are sold, whereas most software and movies are actually leased. The better analogy would be going to a movie theater, and sneaking into a theater to watch a movie that others paid to watch.
You'll notice that I have not spoken about it killing the industry, merely that it is a selfish act, taking something that does not belong to you.
Are people on these forums really so stupid? I mean Jesus H Christ. You are breaking laws for piracy. LAW. Whats next 'What is the logic behind saying rape is wrong?'
You can argue however much you like about it being wrong or not, the answer is 'it's wrong' because it's against the law. The argument should end there... Sky is blue and the grass is green, piracy is stealing.
Piracy isn't something someone made up yesterday in which people are taking a public stance against because it falls under belief. If you wanna debate the existence of God or not thats fine, there is no law against that. Piracy is wrong though.
2. the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.
"software piracy"
synonyms: illegal reproduction, plagiarism, illegal copying, copyright infringement, bootlegging, stealing, theft
"software companies are reluctant to say how much piracy costs them"
But by all means keep pirating, I am sure you will be fine, also give me your address and details so I can cal the authorities I am sure you can work something out with them when they come knocking, I am sure your argument will go down well..
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I love Warcraft, I dislike WoW
Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
It's not.
And the one who uploaded the torrent paid the owner.
It's not stealing unless the data disappears from the owner's database, which it does not. If I play Vanilla WoW Blizzard doesn't lose their data.If at any point you did not pay the owner for it then it's stealing
The fact that I was able to substantiate it and you have been unable to provide a counter argument in your rebuttal indicates that you're talking nonsense now.
Please substantiate how you can conclude that "piracy" and "stealing" are mutually exclusive.
Given that the term "piracy" originates from groups of brigands who sailed on the high seas and stole goods from other ships, it stands to reason that stealing is an implied element of "piracy". So when the people who first decided to use the term to refer to the copying of IP, you can be damn sure that their intent was to imply that doing so was tantamount to stealing.
Now, you may argue that the term "piracy" isn't really appropriate because it isn't necessarily always the same as stealing, but you don't get to argue that, by definition, piracy =/= stealing, because that's just factually wrong.
That's true, as a game designer I'm happy when the games I worked on get pirated, because that means people are enjoying them and that's the greatest praise to my talents. I don't lose a cent over this because in this age everything belongs to the corporation that paid me to do the work. I got my money. Screw the corporation.
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Please refer to my first post in this thread. I have nothing else to say to you on this subject.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side