Dracil

Dracil

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Did I actually call you stupid? No, I called the broad usage of your definition stupid, just as I would call broad definitions of "religion" stupid. Stop being so friggin' defensive. And yes, I know a lot of people call it "theft," but that doesn't mean it really should be how it's used. It's like a lot of people call people "hackers" when the correct term for what they're really talking about is "crackers". Yeah, the common people use it, people in the government use it, that doe

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Bleah, I guess I will respond before tomorrow. Ok, so I confused Janet Reno with Breyer's quotes, so the above I said about Janet Reno should've applied to Breyer's quotes. So I have to address Janet Reno's quotes. Ok, so that's her personal opinion, it isn't an actual ruling. So your point? No, my point is that if the law doesn't actually use that word, then fine, use it, but it's just like Creationists calling evolution a "theory" and meaning hypothesis. If that's fin

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

You didn't actually give out Justice Breyer's quote in that post. You just made the claim he made some statement that meant something. That's not called a quote. Neither is simply saying X law claims to state something. If you're saying it's in the title, I say it's a misnomer, and read the actual text of the law. Here, I'll make it easy. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/17-18red.htm - note that other than the title, "theft" is *never* mentioned in the rest of the law, for good rea

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

The only quote in your post was from Janet Reno, along with alleged quotes from other sources. But considering your quote from Janet Reno was incorrect, I'd like to see the actual quotes in context from the others. No, fraud is neither theft, nor stealing. It is fraud. There's a reason we have the word "fraud," to describe the act, why not use it? You still haven't answered why you don't think murder and rape is theft. Common usage of words is not actually the best way

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

The No Electronic Theft Act (1997)? Last I heard Congress makes laws, not the Supreme court. Yes, but the Supreme Court interprets them. Check the actual wordings in the act. Are they punished as theft, or as copyright infringement? I repeat, if you insist that theft is the same thing under the law as copyright infringeme

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Actually, the potato and tomato thing isn't semantics, since semantics deals with different meanings of words. All those different ways of saying the same thing still mean the same thing, so it's more about speech differences in different cultures/geographies (certainly a part of linguistics, but not semantics) See what happens when you play fast and loose with the correct definitions of words? <

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Check out Dowling vs. United States. The question is not whether or not they're violations. The question is, WHICH violations. Otherwise, one could call "murder" as "theft" since it is technically stealing someone's life. Same as "rape" as it is "theft" of their right to not have sex, and so on. Should I charge telemarketers with "theft" of my time when they call me? Also, the whole lost sale thing is a really flawed argument. It is really only a lost sale *if* the per

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

I have to disagree, based on US laws though (as ruled by the Supreme Court), as well as semantically. Really, if theft = copyright infringement = trademark infringement, why do you have so many terms and different laws applying to each?

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Reply to Metaverse II in Ideas Stardock Forums

Mmm, I meant how games that were too old had their scores drop down gradually, until eventually it became 0% of their original worth. So if I played a game of GC now and submitted it, 2 or so years from now (I forgot the cutoff), if I submit another game, the game I had submitted previously would be worth nothing.

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Reply to TotalGaming.net: Phase 2 Launched in TGN News Stardock Forums

Well, as long as I don't have to find out that I can no longer install GC2 20 years from now on my 10th different computer because I've run out of activations and Stardock no longer exists (hopefully not ), I guess it's ok (heck, just look at how many people still play MOO2).

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

That is the difference between theft and copyright infringement, and why it is important people stop using them interchangeably. Which is why I talked about matter replicators in the future. If I make a copy of your car, am I really "stealing?" What if we replicated food and water and medicine for distribution to those who couldn't afford it? Then again, perhaps with the ability to replicate all matter, capitalism would essentially no longer have a place in the

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Metaverse II in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, some thoughts for the metaverse for GC2. 1) How about an option for us to submit games that won't be counted for score. This will encourage people to submit losses, which you guys can then analyze for better AI. Of course a game submitted this way cannot be resubmitted again at a later date for score. 2) No zeroing of scores. I remember having this argument, and the person I was arguing against tried to argue that having a score in an old bl

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Reply to Civilization 4 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

They need to beef up the AI, or else the multiplayer has to be superb, or else I'll pass. And no turn processing that takes forever!

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Well, I've heard of Lucas Arts going after people for using Star Wars based things in their modifications for games... In a way, yes, it is "illegal," but it's also often not worth their effort to go after people. BTW a similar issue would be the doujin market in Japan, a lot of which is based on copyrighted works (basically they make new manga [often pornographic in nature] and games that are based on actual anime for sale). It's one of those gray area things I think. It

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Reply to Some thoughts on the file-swapping ruling in Industry Stardock Forums

Considering I can get two very large pizzas with cheese-crusted crusts, and a decent amount of toppings for $9, yes, $20 is a lot. Remember, when you talk about the internet, you have to keep in mind the prices of goods in places OTHER than the US. In any case, no matter what happens to P2P, we'll have more people complaining about matter replicators as "theft" in the future when we finally perfect that technology.

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Forum bug in Firefox? in TG.Net Help Stardock Forums

It seems like when I'm logged in, and I'm browsing the forums, the page sometimes doesn't render correctly, i.e. the page will come up blank, even though if I look at the source, it's all there. If I logout and try to view the same post, it'll work properly again.

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Reply to Multiple Research Tracks in Ideas Stardock Forums

Not a bad idea. Some of them could even be the "loan" companies (the different companies with different costs and interest rates when you wanted to complete projects quickly) from GC1.

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