Recent content by Event_Horizon

Short answer, yes, they have turned. The amount of sexism in the media is disproportionately aimed at men. Misogyny is consistently frowned upon, though few know what the word misandry is or what it means. And don't get me started on the special privileges that women get from the state. If...

Uh yeah they do, because by agreeing to the terms of buying the chair, you go into a voluntary contract, and yes hypothetically they could sue you for it. But then again you don't have to buy the chair.

In response to your paragraph: you're right. The backlash against pirates does more harm than good, and I agree with you, in fact I have never stated otherwise. The point I made is that corporations don't legally "assassinate" users without cause. Their action is only a reaction. Now if a game...

And there can be a huge social benefit if the government forces people to have X amount of children, or force genetic testing, or force people to be scientists, or to outlaw smoking or trans-fats. Any kind of "social benefit" is usually found fallacious somewhere along its premises because...

It's not selfishness, it's their liberty to choose how their work is used. Liberty is not on the side of the consumer, because the consumer does not benefit or fail from the distribution of media, only the creator does, so the creator possesses the liberty to distribute/sell their creation...

You never properly defined it. You just used the term and expected that its definition was self explanatory. Define your terms as you use them because I cannot assume what they mean. Secondly, you say asking for permission impedes innovation, which is simply wrong. To innovate means creating...

Any time someone uses a single word to describe our culture, I can only think of how they simplistically generalize everyone and everything. You haven't even defined what a permission culture is, so I have very little motivation to take that claim seriously. Did they own the Chrono series...

How does Paris Hilton achieve her success rather than mooch of her family's wealth? Oh... wait. In a free society you have to accept the decisions of other people even if you don't personally like it. If they want to do they and ruin their brand it's up to them. And if you want to create...

You cannot copyright an idea, so I have no idea why you keep saying that. And are you saying children should not own what their parents give them? You might not like it, but that's how it works. If you were in their position, the rights would extend to you. The basic function of...

That is exactly my point. Who is to say the author wants their piece locked up (not very likely) in one sense or free to be altered in another? For literature it is a fairly clear case, and granted for other media like film, or especially music it's a different story. One cannot "own" a chord...

The words I put on this page I can copyright, but the idea that I am putting forward I cannot, and anyone can use my idea as they please. However if someone were to cut my words here and use them, they would have to attach my name to it or it would be plagiarism. In a scientific journal you can...

It's not BS, and calling it BS is your opinion, not a point of fact. Earnest Hemingway is dead, so he cannot give consent on how his works are to be used and edited. End of discussion. The 75 years of copyright protection to keep his work "pure", for lack of a better term, and at least allows...

Okay granted I am unfamiliar with the terminology. Well first it isn't very contributing to the discussion when you claim that I cannot argue with you since I don't understand morals at a stage five moral reasoning. Immediately you shut off the discussion by claiming an intellectual high...

How does that justify anything the pirate does? Laws may need reformation, sure, but the basics of personal property rights, not copyright laws, are what all the arguments seem to miss. Just because they are extensive (maybe too extensive) doesn't give anyone the right to override them. There...

You completely miss the intellectual property rights of the creator. Just because it is not a physical product, doesn't mean that it is not property. When you take something that is the property of someone else, and use it in a way which they do not want you to use it, you are infringing on...