No, I'm saying it is important to have the discussion because this is all very new and we haven't really established the standards yet. Simply saying you are right and everyone else is wrong isn't how the world operates. I'm actually quite interested in your point of view, but sadly you haven't really given it aside from direct responses to specific things people say.
I;v given you my point of view over and over in this thread if you bothered to read the thread, but you arnt going to be able to pin me down to one of the cookie cutter world views or political parties or ideological systems that exist in the world. My viewpoint is the sum of all the knowledge I have ever processed, combined with whatever my natural temperament and predispositions are.
Actually I'd say if everybody (potentially) owns something, then by nature nobody owns it.
This is where we disagree, I think if everybody owns something, then I think everybody really owns it at the same time concurrently without interference with each others rights of ownership. It looks like they own it. It smells like they own it, they act as they own it, they do as they wish with no restrictions, you dont have to call that ownership if you dont want, but I do. You think it is okay for a person to put a game on my computer for money, and then tell me what I can and can't do with it, I find that wrong, because anything I want to do with that thing is none of anyone's business EVEN if I release it onto the internet. When I do that, I'm not doing anything that isnt inevitable in the digital realm, so I dont know how you can penalize me for it or think I am somehow in the wrong (going back to the hate the player/game thing) You can keep trying NOT to call a spade a spade, but I assure you if you look closely, it is a spade. I thought I already addressed the "possession vs ownership" thing. You can say all that is true, but good luck with trying to apply the difference between those two concepts to the pirate community. To do so the way you are over and over is NAIVE. It isnt going to work separating "owners" from license holders, or "people who possess the game but DONT own it", and I really want to know how you are going to keep the two groups separate?
Spoiler alert: you already lost that battle. We have made owners of ourselves despite your definitions because we perceive the rules of this plane differently than you do.
Everything has to be compared to something mate.
Right, but sometime people compare things that are not the same, when really, fundamental differences mean your wasting your time comparing apples to hedgehogs. They call these types of comparisons "false equivalencies."
"Digital" is a fairly new concept. In human history anyway. I understand that maybe a few hundred years from now it might be so well integrated that your views are the norm. But we're not there yet.
Speak for yourself mate, I am there already and have been for years and I live here with a large community of people. You (and the other forum members who go against piracy) are the peoplo who havnt reached that point yet.
And I don't think forcing small indie groups towards it is the best way to go about it. Fight the big guys. The big guys are the ones that gouge everyone for inferior and substandard content. Absorbing development companies in any mainstream media for the sole purpose of profit. Regardless of any true value.
the producers of the actual content are logically going to be the last ones to come around to the "Piracy is not immoral" argument. And large corporations are NOTORIOUS for being the SLOWEST ones to change. When big companies see that the factorio development team (or some other indie dev) found a way to leverage piracy into a permanent revenue stream out of lost wages. When they see that sales and profits go UP thanks to piracy, they'll still be the last to switch over. (Example: RIAA)
You realise how bad this sounds right? If not... then I need not comment. I think it speaks for itself.
Sorry, I wouldnt ever kill anyone who didnt threaten my life first, but if you attempt to use force against me, my family, or the other pirates for something as silly as piracy, then I am honor bound to fight you, and stop you. I'm willing to die to keep the internation library of humanity's works of art and science open, if someone is willing to die to close it down, then me and that person will fight a very bloody engagement.
I'm not denying the true 'nature' of anything. I simply do not believe that possession equals ownership. Thus I cannot understand the pirate mentality. I would like to understand it, I really would. I would honestly like to be part of this "brave new world" you are all trying to usher in for us. I just don't get it, because in my day. If you make something. You created it, thus you own it.
Let me explain it again then:
When an artist releases art, it belongs to the public they have released it to. Not that they TAKE AWAY ownership from the artist, but that they ALSO own the art.
Some magical technology shift doesn't change that fact.
Tell that to thepiratebay.org and kickass.to, they seem to think the technology shift DOES change that fact. And they test that little theory in practice (unlike you relying on only theory and concepts) every single day that the archive of human works stays open.
This is how licensing was born. It was a means of creating a sense of ownership to those who create digital content.
EXACTLY! The artists, sad that digital media now meant they would have to forever share ownership with the wide world, HIJACKED and CHANGED the concept of copyright and licensing of tangible goods to fit their selfish purposes. Copyright WAS a good tool for making sure inventors get credit for the initial designs, and some1 couldnt just peak in the window and steal your design plans and beat you to the patent office or beat you to the media with discoveries; and it was also used as a tool for establishing who the author actually was, and who the plagiarists are. Not to separate the license holders club from the owners club. (again i find that such a weak distinction if it doesnt work in practice and that distinction only exists in people's minds)
Or any content really. You don't agree with that. I understand, I really do. I agree completely in fact. I'm 110% against DRM of any sort. I will pirate any DRM based game because I refuse to be told how I can play games I paid for. I stil respect the license, minus the DRM part. I pay a small amount... for something someone else put a considerable amount of work/money/time/energy into. My $15 or $30 or $50 or $100 is NOT worth 'ownership' of said content. No way in hell. I have a right to use it. I believe I have a right to use it how I wish.
So wait, what in the hell makes DRM an inappropriate way of restricting a person, but a license is an appropriate way of restricting a person? For me, I find any restriction inappropriate after the sale. How do you decide which restrictions should be followed and which restrictions can be ignored? And dont say the money thing, you have all your work still ahead of you if you want to show an example of piracy hurts sales and doesnt boost them as a type of commercial.
malokin wrote:I'm not reposting my opinion over and over or trying to bring anyone to an agreement or bring any person to my side, i'm addressing the logical debate points and criticism of myself and piracy in this thread and this thread alone. I will preapologize for publicly responding to people who agro me in the other threads, but it really frustrates me when a nice topic gets ruined by people's predispositions. I challenge you to show me a situation where a person showed me respect, and then I afforded them none. I dont pick on people, i say please and thank you, but I dont just hit report or send a private message or sulk away when personally attacked or criticized, i simply respond to the criticism in a very blunt, unapologetic, but respectful way. (Although lately outside of this thread I have been resorting more and more to private messaging people responses to their criticisms privately.) Go ahead and quote every mean thing I ever said, but unless you match it up with a quote of what I'm responding to, your just pulling out the best examples of me trying to be lightheartedly funny, albeit mildly-insulting, during a flamewar.
Sadly predispositions are human nature. It's based off perception. How you perceive things is not how others perceive things. It's life.
I was responding to your criticism of the way I treat people, I dont understand what your response to me is meant to mean. Are you trying to justify people acting on their predispositions and fucking up threads yelling about how I'm a rude prick even though I asked a simple question about how to use the console to update the game factorio? I fail to see how you did anything more than explain why people make these kinds of mistakes, and the WHY of stupidity and aggression doesnt really interest me, i find these reasons irrelevant to the ideas and concepts being discussed.
You're still being controlled. Told how your money works. I'm really curious as to why 'digital goods' is somehow exempt to something you obviously respect and understand. Aside from being able to copy it.
Because when digital media was invented, the assumption was made that ownership would work just like with cars and tangible goods. This assumption was proven false when the creators of content were FORCED to stand on equal footing with the people they released their content to. Digital media made every person with a copy, even the guy with the original copy, all equals in terms of the practical rights and abilities over those works that they all possess. Noone was left in the driver's seat at that point, even if you continue to claim that the original creator still sits in that driver's seat, I'd like to see even one instance where that analogy with the original creator in the driver's seat holds true in the practical bounds of our reality.
Which if your ability to copy something is the entire crux behind your point of view then I wish I could share that mentality. But I think due to my personality type, even if I did I would not go on a crusade over it.
Really? I think you would.
This is a good one actually. The rules weren't changed though. They were adapted to fit the medium. You simply didn't agree to them. Though, you did agree to them. You're simply ignoring that fact. Would be intriguing to see if you held the same attitude towards any sort of contract between you and another party.
No, reality is forcing the rules to adapt. The rules arnt going to somehow magically force reality to adapt.
I don't think this at all. In fact I know things will change. They already have started changing, and not for the better. Take DRM for example. Companies are becoming increasingly aggressive with DRM to 'control' their content. Not only is it not working, it's actually hurting legitimate customers far more than illegitimate customers. There's a game I wanted to buy for ages that fit this category. Settlers 7. Had an always-on DRM even though I had no intention of playing it online, and my internet was rather dodgy at the time. What did I do? I pirated it. Because I could not actually play the game at all for any length of time due to their DRM.
I find this hilarious, When the rules "owners" set for themselves interfere with you, you can avoid them, but when I make the decision that ALL interference is wrong after you have sold me the game, I'm somehow way off base? Seems like a double standard.
I actually agree with this. I think they should also have separate set of ownership rules. However they should not be based on the harsh realities of technology and the internet imo. The internet is very unforgiving and very fickle. To use another comparison that to something in real life. I can go down my street... 3 doors down (lol) and break into an abandon house. It's been abandoned for awhile. Someone actually owns it. Don't know who. But I could break in. Fix it up. Live in it. And plant a flag saying "I own this". Doesn't mean I own it. But THAT is a harsh reality. I can do that. I could even burn the place down if I wanted. Harsh reality. That doesn't mean I should have the right to do so. Simply because I can.
So now digital media is the same as HOUSES? That illiterates EXACTLY why digital goods are different. I CAN burn down my file without taking away from the ownership or infringing on the rights of any other person. Get it? Your flag and fire would be okay inside of a digital abandoned house, because even though you burned down YOUR copy of the house, everyone else still gets to do anything they please inside of THEIR copy of the digital house. If you could walk into the digital house, and the moment you walked into it, it split into 2 different house files, one for the guy who actually owns the house, and one house for you. That would make it morally acceptable for you to burn the house down. If you dont hurt anyone or affect the ownership of other people's digital houses, then YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BURN IT DOWN!
malokin wrote:What a sick thing to say, that there will never be a place for moral pirates just because amoral pirates will always exist. As though I should be punished for another man's crimes.
Are you sure you understand morality?
Uh I'm not sure what makes this sick exactly. You seem to be rather sensitive about it, despite your insensitivity to everyone else. Odd. I never said you should be punished. Though I've implied that you should be impeded. Not sure how that equates to punishment though.
I find it sick that your sense of morality is one that "Pirating would be okay, if it wernt for those bad pirates". How and why should the crimes of worse more immoral pirates affect the rest? To even consider the actions of someone else when judging a persons actions makes no sense to me. Why am I responsible for someone else's behavior? Ludicrous.
malokin wrote:YEAH I SURE DO. It is every man's job to provide for his family, and when the man with a fishing boat suddenly finds the fish GONE, I dont feel bad for his ass, he can survive if he just stops living in the past, accept the fishless future fand igures out a new way to use that boat
Interesting. You use real life comparisons and analogies, that are actually quite good. But you expect me not to. Even though yours are equally out of context.
The fish are the sales drying up from all the piracy. The devs are the fishermen who has to innovate or die. The boat is factorio, a medium in which the fisherman can use to make a living, EVEN without the fish there. What I'm saying isnt a flase equivalency like the ones you keep spouting off comparing tangible goods and intangible goods.
However to respond. This man would have to adapt. I agree. But how he adapts is not unknown to him. He has several options available that are very obvious, very in line with what he previously performed.
What? How in the heck are you gonna tell ME what the people in my own analogy do or dont know what to do? It's pretty obvious to anyone (that isnt just trying to twist things) that I meant a scenario where the fisherman DOESNT know what path he will take to food. He and the devs are in the same boat.
With what we're facing now... there is no obvious alternative. I'm pretty sure if you make 'paying for digital goods' completely optional you will find the majority of indie game developers don't have a hope in hell of surviving in the current market. The innovation simply isn't there. If it were it would be so insanely competitive that it would probably not work for many many years.
There are obvious alternatives, you just fail to see them. You very wrongly made the assumption that when I said developers would release their own torrents, that they wouldnt sell their game. You do both, and you promote on social media, and you sell cafepress stuff with gear logos, and you do many thousand techniques that I wouldnt do service to if I tried to guess them. Selling digital goods alternative ways isnt some government level research project. You just need to go to your local library or take a college level course on digital arts marketing.
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Interesting. Though I am actually in the digital industry myself. I do services rather than 'products' though. As far as people conceding to your points. I only have your word to take on that. The fact is a great many people are adapting, or trying to. I'm sure they will probably succeed over time. The fact is this whole thing cannot be stopped. I am not going to pretend it can. However I'm not trying to stop it either. I'm trying to understand it. While hopefully detering people from hampering smaller indie studios before they've gained their traction.
but TGS, without the loud voices like yours which are the last to cry out against piracy before a complete turnover there wouldnt be anyone except large companies and groups like the RIAA fighting this change
Mkay I'm not gonna bother responding to this. Especially seeing as how I've been a salesperson myself. And I still retain that opinion. Though I probably shouldn't have used the term salesperson so much as marketers.
Well I dont take back the comment about you being dirty then, because I wasa salesperson at a marketing company, so I still find what you said before or what you are saying now to either be REALLY naive or REALLY bad at telling cliche jokes.
No I don't. That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. And I don't think you do either. Hell, neither do they I imagine lol. That's the thing. I want these devs. The Factorio devs to have the best shot. Throwing them into this 'brave new world' is probably not the best to go about it. I'm not against you, or the movement or even pirating. I'm against the attitude and the trolling sure, but that's about it.
Right, living in the past and pretending that houses are the same as files is the proper path to making money, I'm so sure.
Honestly I think the digital market and distribution of goods, if done your way will potentially destroy how economy works entirely. Which may not be a bad thing. My concern is that economy is so ingrained in our culture that breaking it without a viable alternative can potentially to lead to anarchy. Which I know many people are all for, but I don't know that it works with 7~ billion people on the planet.
Destroy the economy and the planet?? WTF?
It's not like i said any REAL goods would be free, just music games movies, all of the world's DIGITAL works. but hey, maybe your right and THE END IS NIGH
I like that jab. Cute. So you don't really know how the world works, yet you're willing to challenge it because you feel that it is wrong. Simply because you have a system in front of you which allows you to do something that has never really been available before. Duplicate 'goods'. This is ultimately the issue as I see it. It will be very interesting to see how it turns out in the end. Either way.
What I said that was whether or not I know whats best, the old system that doesnt work anymore isnt an answer for the questions "what should we do next" "What is the best way" definitively the answer will not be do it the way they did things during the first 5 years of understanding that field, thats for sure.