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You say that no communists were responsible for great art? What about Marx? Leon Trotsky? Leo Tolstoy? I'm just listing authors I know off-hand (I'm not big on art, so I don't know the names of any well-known Russian/eastern-European artists) -- I'm quite sure that others around here could flesh out this list significantly. |
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20-03-2006, 07:38 AM | #62 | ||
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<!--QuoteBegin-Chuck the plant@Mar 20 2006, 03:59 AM On that very topic: Since there weren't any copyright laws, it really makes one wonder about the HUGE ammount of great and well known art from communist countries, does it not?* LOL[/quote] That was due to the fact that they were socialist, not comunist (soviets were suposed to become comunist by the end of 80s, instead they went out of buisiness ). USSR, remeber? |
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On the other hand, plix and a1s said it all k:
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20-03-2006, 03:24 PM | #64 | ||
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20-03-2006, 04:46 PM | #65 | ||
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Granted, the final outcome of stealing a car and stealing intellectual property is not TOTALLY the same. Still taking advantage of somebodie's work without compensating them can in NO way be declared "morally correct". And if some people would not have bought the software, anyway: Why do they feel the need to copy it illegally then, anyway? As I said, either you want it, or you don't. If you don't, why still get it? Just because you can? @ Playbahnosh As you can see, the analogy DOES work. Quote:
Cracking and Warez brought down more than one games-company and sometimes even whole gaming-platforms. I guess that's all fair and square to you all as well. And that's why I don't see any further need to discuss this matter. |
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20-03-2006, 05:14 PM | #66 | ||
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20-03-2006, 05:51 PM | #67 | ||
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Developers avoided Amiga, Amiga CD32, Sega Dreamcast, Sega MegaCD because of no or low antipiracy options. In the end all of those consoles/computers died.
None of my consoles is moded, and moded is unlawful here, but it does not seem to be unlawfull in Bosnia... where you can buy above example (Photoshop) for 5 CM (2.5 Euros) |
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20-03-2006, 06:11 PM | #68 | ||
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I mean on the other hand they say the biggest reason for the playstation console being so popular is being easy on piracy, after all, that did encourage better sales of the console and in the end everyone who buys pirated games will buy an original or two... And how come playstation was so much more of a success than N64 which was impossible to pirate?
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20-03-2006, 06:53 PM | #69 | ||
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It all depends on what marked are you talking about.
Here N64 was well sucesfull console. Used N64 games still sell, as well some Dreamcast games (mostly sports titles). There is no Mega CD and very rare you can find MegaDrive games. Sonly PS games also had sucessful sales, but not all of them. Sony console had quantity over quality thing, and there is usually one out of 10 games that is worth some time. Here you can't find that many moded consoles and NGC still sells, as well PS2 and XBox. From what I see, games sell well at 40-30 bucks, and greatest hit titles sell for 15-20 bucks. It is well known that many developers discontinued Dreamcast because of Sega's incapability to disable copying of the games. Release of PS2 lead to lower console sales, and already hit by the lower number of develpers, Sega had no other option but to stop console department. For those who don't know, you don't have to mod DreamCast. Most today's CDRoms are capable to copy DC games at 1x - 4x speed. |
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20-03-2006, 06:54 PM | #70 | ||
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a)do you want a brand new Ferrari? b)It's offcourse a completely free gift, want it now? c) allthough you'll have to give me 2 thousand dollars for this graeat oppportuinty, still inetersted? d)... each month, for the rest of your life. will you sign? unless you are an idiot (which you are not) or plan to rip the seller off, you would probably only agree to some of these and not the others. It's supply and demand. EDIT: don't get me wrong, I'm not routing for piracy (I use paint, and the only reason I had to install AutoCad (30-day trial, BTW) was because my good friend was using it for level design), just apropriate pricing. and the fact that there is no way I'll eve by those things (ferraris are overpriced ) |
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