Amnestic said:
Yes, the judge with oodles of education and access to countless materials on such things is far more ignorant of the entire subject than you, some random internet poster.
In other news, I'm the Queen of Sheba. From now on I expect to be adressed as "Your Majesty" or "Your Highness."
I'm a graduate student studying digital game design for my MFA under industry veterans. That doesn't make me more qualified than a real industry professional by any means but I daresay I'm a lot more informed about games than the average politician, who generally isn't informed about anything other than politics. Who knows, though? Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm not giving the judge enough credit and he
is an informed entertainment lawyer. From what I understand, though, the French government is generally unkind to major foreign media companies, feeling that they don't want them to influence French culture, and it tends to rule against them whenever possible--not necessarily always unjustly, mind you, but you can see a bit of where I'm coming from with this. My perspective is that they tend to be a bit unfair and are just as interested in damaging a company's profits as they are in anything else.
sheic99 said:
I'm just going to point this out for you, not all software for falshcards are in fact piracy. There is a good size amount of freeware and shareware software that has been written to run on the DS flashcards.
As I say, I like to consider myself well-informed, but frankly, I'm definitely not perfect and I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong when I am. In this case, I am definitely
wrong, having not considered this angle over the more widely publicized and acknowledged use of flash cards for piracy.
Frankly I'm not in favor of console manufacturers having so much control over what content gets published. Try and imagine a world where you have to pay a several million dollar licensing fee to Magnavox, Sony, Toshiba, and every other DVD player manufacturer in order to publish movies that're compatible with their machines--and that's just for starters. Imagine having to pay $500,000 more to the company who manufactures your camera for each of them as well, on top of the $3,million that you had to pay to get a hold of the camera in the first place.
That's the world that game developers live in, and it sucks, big time. Games are enormously overpriced and the people behind the content don't get their fair cut of the profits over publishers and console manufacturers. It's a system that harms end users
and developers. At some point, as consoles and PCs start to merge together, I hope we see the collapse of this system and a more open market for would-be game developers, because such enormous financial barriers aren't healthy for a growing medium. To this end I can definitely understand and agree with the judge's reasoning, and perhaps what we're witnessing is some equivalent of the first days of VCR, when media companies went nuts thinking it'd be the end for movies and television. Of course
we know it totally wasn't.
Acrisius said:
Your post makes me want to /facepalm...
Yours makes me want to do the same. Spouting out a dozen false analogies spiced with red-hot slander instead of settling on just one doesn't make your reasoning any stronger. If you cooled your jets and explained your arguments intelligently and civilly maybe you wouldn't find yourself put on probation quite so often. The only reason to act the way that you do is if you're
looking for a fight, which I wasn't. These forums are a place for discussion and expression of thought, not for childish venting.
To everybody who had the wherewithal to make a decent argument against my post, thank you for opening my eyes a bit and making me re-think things. To the rest of you,
grow up already. It's just a forum and it won't kill you if one random stranger distrusts politicians.
