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Volpone

Volpone

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So my games were all on my desktop computer, which was in storage for a couple years. Tonight I decided "what the heck, I'll start a game of 'Freelancer'." I fired up the program...and was reminded that, because of copyright fears, even though the game is installed on the hard drive, you need to have the CD in the drive to run the game.

Unfortunately I didn't remember this back when I was sorting out what stayed in storage and what came out. So 75% of my software CDs are in a box in a storage locker. Buried beneath lots and lots of other boxes. :mad:
 
Heh. How's that for irony? Since I hope to make my living on Intellectual Property I'm pretty respectful of copyrights. But it is when companies treat me like a criminal that they actually make me more likely to stop respecting IP.

I'm still holding out on installing the Registry Worm on Windows XP, so I'm stuck with a 3 year old version of Media Player. And it pisses me off that, although I own "The Wind and the Lion" on videotape, it would be illegal for me to have a DVD of just the scene where the Marines are landing--I'd technically have to go out and buy the film again on DVD just for the one scene that I [STRIKE]masturbate to[/STRIKE] like to watch.
 
Major film companies make their largest revenue on box office sales.

It's only cult movies, like monty python's holy grail, rocky horror picture show, blade runner, etc that make their money on dvd.

Besides, if you really like something, shell out the cash for it. Don't be ashamed to download things. Especially if you don't feel like they're worth your money. Most crap that comes out today is TOTALLY not worth your money.

I download a lot of movies, but I never download cam-vids of movies while they're still in theaters. I just pay an assload of money to go see it. I figure, that if you've seen it in the theaters, then the intellectual property rights stop there. You paid fair and square to see it. And, if you're only downloading the movie itself (most of which don't compare to DVD quality anyway), and not the dvd extras, what's the big deal?

Remember when napster was at it's height and record labels were selling CD's for $20+? That's overcharging. Now that they have the $1/song online stores, the albums have gone down to a reasonable price in the stores. Therefore, I'm more willing to pay. But, am I going to pay $1 for a song they play freely on the radio? No. I'll download that fucker in a heartbeat. It's only if I like the album or the group that I buy their CD's (and in some case vinyls).

I'm a big champion of capitalism and intellectual property, but you can only stretch the latter so far before it looks like monopoly criminalization.
 
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