Comment Re:Not so big an issue (Score 4, Informative) 222
Like lu.scio.us?
Like lu.scio.us?
(though she's switched to macs now).
Oh man, I feel your pain.
I don't own a TV, you insensitive clod.
Octave here, too. I even install it on Windows machines that I'm forced to use, though it seems to start up much more slowly than it does in Linux.
Looks like the mods think you're genuine.
Eh? It's trivial to demonstrate it's morally bad. What would happen if everybody downloaded crap without paying for it? Well, there'd be virtually no new content created by paid professionals. This is Kants categorical imperative - basic stuff.
Straw man. Denying the existence of a moral right to intellectual monopoly doesn't imply that one is proposing "don't ever give money to artists/etc." as a universal law.
or fall back on appeals to "THE LAW" (in which case, who the fuck cares?).
You, sir, are an idiot. Bet you don't have those kinds of balls in a court of law. Would you tell a judge "THE LAW...who the fuck cares?" No didn't think so. Until you are willing to tell that to a judge in his courtroom STFU troll.
Well, looks like I called that one right.
Do you have any idea what your chances of being prosecuted for copyright infringement are? Not even 1%. For casual piracy, copyright law is irrelevant, as is your "TELL IT TO THE JUDGE" posturing.
not releasing a game into a specific market does not justify people pirating the game.
Why shouldn't people pirate it? Give me one good reason. There's no actual consequences for Nintendo, so you're going to have to either trot out your flawed understanding of property rights (which will then be summarily debunked), or fall back on appeals to "THE LAW" (in which case, who the fuck cares?).
Piracy is morally neutral, neither good nor bad. The intellectual monopoly faction has utterly failed to produce a single solid argument for the alleged immorality of piracy. Their appeals to property rights consistently ignore the factors that justify rights to actual property in the first place.
Lay off the moral posturing. Consequentialist arguments are all you've got, and even those are pretty weak.
I want my 30 seconds back.
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