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And furthermore copyright law has been subverted by corporate interests and is just a shadow of what the found fathers wanted it to be. Copyright is OUR rights not theirs it makes sure WE get the copyrightable content but it has been changed around to give CORPORATIONS all the control.

Guess what? The CORPORATIONS that own this stuff are composed of people and owned by people. You can become one of those people for about $50 a share. A corporation is the modern expression of the Right of Free Assembly, and is used to administer cooperative division-of-labor and ownership of property.

Would you prefer that property can only be owned whole, by single individuals? Do you realize that it would be impossible to undertake any large, capital-intensive project in that environment?

But, based on my understanding of several recent different but similar situations involving movies and music, we can all safely assume that those people would not have bought the game to begin with.

We can also take comfort in knowing that the companies from whom the graphics were lifted probably keep the lion's share of the profit from game sales and the graphic artists make almost nothing, by comparison.

Also, if the guy at 'Limbo of the Lost' bought the game it is his to do with what he wishes because he didn't agree to any stupid 'don't lift graphics' clause and shrinkwrap licenses have never been proven in court anyway so no one has any legal standing to complain about anything. This includes if he wants to make a mashup of the game's graphics and his own cool gaming idea and call it 'Limbo of the Lost'.

And furthermore copyright law has been subverted by corporate interests and is just a shadow of what the found fathers wanted it to be. Copyright is OUR rights not theirs it makes sure WE get the copyrightable content but it has been changed around to give CORPORATIONS all the control. Do I want DRM on my hard drive so I can play a game but keep me from taking screenshots? No! I'll never install Vista. If this was available in WINE I would play it but it isn't. I don't even run NDISWRAPPER!

So, in conclusion, no. I don't think anyone has stolen anything. Information wants to be free.

As in I don't pay anything for it.

Lawrence_Bird writes "Republican Presidential candidate has raised in excess of $3 million since midnight. Grassroots supporters organized a 'money bomb' campaign for 5 November — Guy Fawkes day (remember, remember the 5th of Novemeber). At about 5:50pm EST, the total passed the $3 mio mark and is on a pace for over $4 mio by midnight. The NY Times political blog has more details."

Lost+Found writes "On June 5th, CNN hosted a round of debate for 10 GOP candidates for the 2008 Presidential race of the United States. After the debates, CNN posted an article on its Political Ticker blog asking who won the debate. Pages of comments contained messages of support for Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Surprisingly, CNN redirected the GOP "Who won" page to the Democratic "Who won" page from the earlier debates, after which it took the page offline completely.

And it continued the same way through about 140 comments before this site was... shut down. Initially, it pointed readers to the "who won the Democratic debate?" blog question. Then it showed a "Nothing here" page.

It is safe to assume that Internet polls don't necessarily reflect the popularity of a candidate amongst the American mainstream, particularly when a candidate's base might be made up largely of techies. But when moderators refuse to give an equal amount of time to each candidate, anchors all but refuse to mention the name of certain second-tier candidates, and the webmasters of large news organizations censor the preferences of their own viewers, one must wonder what kind of damage is done to the political discourse."
http://jaworski.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-pauls-vanishing-trick.html