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[quote who="louist" reply="115" id="2859041"] Quoting TheDarkKnight2008, reply 100So stealing is not benefiting off others if you just give it away? What a bunch of bullshit. You wouldn't mind if I stole everything in your hou8se and gave it away then? And comparing this to Robin hood or Long John Silver is hilarious. Robin Hood stole from a corrupt government that usurped the crown. You criminals steal from average joes who work hard to their

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[quote who="Delmoroth" reply="114" id="2858911"]Dark Knight, while I agree that anyone who commits a crime should accept the possibility of punishment for that crime your argument seems a bit silly to me. As far as I can tell you are saying that no one should argue about the severity of a punishment if they have ever committed a crime. I suppose you think that no one who has committed such a horrendous crime as going a mile over th

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With all of this said, I will not go thru life expecting handouts. If someone is good I buy it, if not I don't go and grab it. I know the rules, and if something happened the only way that the law would truly help me is if I was innocent. If having a Batman avatar became illegal I would remove it.

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And btw, just as an FYI... The law protects you in more ways then you seem to think. Private financial gain is also something companies/entities like the RIAA use when they price items at a certain price and then try to blackmail you to pay a certain price. A federal offense is a federal offense; using a federal offense for private financial gain would be a criminal act if criminals weren't already criminals and could get someone to listen. Downloaders are oblivious

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Hum. Here ya go, from copyright.gov... http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html [quote] 506. Criminal offenses 6 (a) Criminal Infringement. — (1)

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[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="105" id="2858775"]Maybe this will calm him down: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=MOE10050&mode=retail Only $13.99, a dollar off the list price! And for only $2 more you can upgrade to COLLECTOR'S GRADE! But be careful: "General Safety Warning: Products sold by BBTS may be intended for Adult Collectors. Products may

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[quote who="myfist0" reply="104" id="2858773"]Again with calling me a criminal with no facts or proof. I guess you have the brain of a brick. It was a comment on IP EDIT: WOW I did a quick search on that and some guy with almost my name popped up http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/04/careful-with-those-avatars-you-may-get-a-shakedown-letter/[/quote] Might want to learn how to read. Just a few comments down: [quote]Quick Fair Use thoughts b

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It's not against the law to have avatars based on characters. It isn't against the law to use characters as avatars. It would be against the law to pass around The Dark Knight. Now you criminals are just grasping for straws. Seriously, making comments about avatars??!

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And before you say that taking from your house isn't the same, you were not given permission by the people selling these items to take them freely. So anyone taking your items from your house when you haven't given them permission would be the same thing. But alas, I bet you have some (bullshit) rationalization for that too.

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So stealing is not benefiting off others if you just give it away? What a bunch of bullshit. You wouldn't mind if I stole everything in your hou8se and gave it away then? And comparing this to Robin hood or Long John Silver is hilarious. Robin Hood stole from a corrupt government that usurped the crown. You criminals steal from average joes who work hard to their money when they program games. Try and rationalize, but you are no Robin Hoods, you are t

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Piracy is not related to information. Piracy is the new form of '5 finger discount'. The pirate bay goes down because it was an obvious pirate site. The site was named after piracy, and the owners took the court as a big joke. You would get raided and go to jail too if you were selling stolen goods as obviously as the pirate bay was giving them away. It's that simple. Making this into an information thing is a ruse and a joke.

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OMG is that truu? Everything I know as a high pitched whiney kid comes from the xbox lives!!!!11111 But yeah, the georgia farm blurb is one of my favorite stereotypes that I've been told. Of all the things people have told me, that one stands out as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

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And just as an FYI, when forums are more or less filled with liberals, they begin to look less like a forum for intellectual thought, and more like an Xbox live gaming session, due to hateful type crap aimed at southern and conservative people.

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[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="84" id="2858466"] Quoting FadedC, reply 78 Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 76 Quoting FadedC, reply 60 Yes as inflation occurs games become more expensive. The same could be said for every single product in existence, and this inflation hurts the rich far more then the poor. In which alternative universe are you talking about there? Are you really

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Watch cops. Johnny boy is really a nice kid, even when he's murdered, raped and stolen, always (according to dumbass moms). Nobody steals, they use the '5 finger discount'. Criminals are always full of excuses to justify their behavior.

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[quote who="Nesrie" reply="66" id="2858059"] Quoting FadedC, reply 65 Quoting Nesrie, reply 64 The Consumer Price Index does okay for determining inflation. But it is basic knowledge that that these basic goods type indicators don't do well in aaccounting for changes in technology. I'll spell it out for you; the prices of technology are not going up in inflation because the advances in technological products out pace inflati

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[quote who="Nesrie" reply="61" id="2858015"] Quoting FadedC, reply 60 Edit: Also as an interesting point of trivia: When the Atari 2600 come out in 1977 it cost about $200. That's the equivelent to about $700 by today's prices. While you have a valid point, it doesn't work in this situation. Technology becomes cheaper as time goes by, not more expensive. If you were to build a machine with the capabilities of an Atari 2600 today, it wou

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And without copyright laws you wouldn't have anything as well because the pirates would take everything... I hope you have a point beyond 'Pirates are the other side of the criminal coin'...

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Piracy is to a civil rights movement the same way the mafia is to human decency. Pirates always want to think they are doing something good, when the reality is they are thieves, and the average person WILL BE HAPPY when you are in jail. Esp. when you consider that you are not taking away from Ceos who already have large amounts of money, you are taking from the average joe who works for it.

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See you on an episode of cops criminal.

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[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="10" id="2832179"]The Dark Knight 2008 challenge - I've seen several pics you've been kind enough to post here and there on the forums, but haven't jumped in the past. Can you come up with a way to make your great setup look less cluttered? You have so much fun tech, but your office/room just looks like a technology explosion. Its like China took a $3,000 dump on your table. Don't get me wrong... I'm not jealous or anything...<b

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LOl, am I now a mac fanboy or something? Interesting. You guys should search this forum a bit for my windows and linux desktops ;)

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Got an older model 27" i5 with 4850 for $1584 shipped, new. 4 gigs ram, 1 tb hdd. I also got a magic trackpad. The imac is excellent. Nice screen. Nice res. Crap gpu, but expected. Magic mouse rocks and sucks. I like how it works, but the damn thing is too small for my hands. I keep a razer deathadder beside it. Magic trackpad is suprisingly excellent. Good tracking, feels good to the tough, and big. Better even the

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[quote]As it's been mentioned already, Steam being popular is not a problem. Games being exclusive to Steam are.[/quote] Then why aren't Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony being sued for exclusive games?

Sony releases stupid box thing (at Best Buy of all places), The Onion is vindicated in Everything Else Stardock Forums

http://gizmodo.com/5666035/sony-internet-tv-unboxed-at-best-buy Nobody knows what this sucking, fucking piece of shit will do yet, but for: $400, you get a box that looks like a computer from the 1980's, that is essentially a HDTV. Your choices are... #1 Spend $400 for something that nobody knows what it does. #2 Spend $300 for a <span class="atma_ad_link a