Comment on Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players by Anonymous:
Waaaaah I don’t want to pay to play, it should be free! So I’m going to steal it and then play dumb when I get in trouble for stealing. Last time I checked, stealing is illegal. If you don’t want to pay for your online games then go play League or better yet, GW2. But don’t try to justify stealing, or your stupidity.
Anonymous made other comments on this post:
- Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
No.. This is same as procecuting users for creating their own Steam-like server which fools downloaded Skyrim to think it is legit copy. Anyone who willfully utilize it must be at some level aware what they are doing. Not saying there should not be room for servers like this. Back in ages of Ultima Online, Origin did sue quite a lot of shards, until they realized it is rather futile attempt. Their solution was to strike deal with server-modders: You don’t get paid for our work, and we don’t …
- Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
“re: The person was only interfacing his software with the official client software. He didn’t use the proprietary server code. In my opinion this is fair use and should be acceptable.” At the very least, the person running the pirate server knowingly, and purposefully, facilitated the infringement by allowing people to use his server to bypass having to pay NCSoft. This would make him just as guilty, whether he used the actual NCSoft server program or not. This is much the same as Youtube and …
- Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
@cpc65: Stealing has nothing to do with copyright. It is not legally the same and will never be. Nobody can “steal intellectual property” as it can be copied endlessly at no cost. What needs to be discussed is how much return should someone have for “creating” something, and at which point whatever he created should become Public Domain. @Anon 16:37 – There are problems not only about the duration of copyright but also regarding its scope. This case specifically is very complicated. Should a …
- Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
RE; To all the copyright zealots in this thread: Regardless of how draconian copyright laws have become (yes, I agree they’ve stretched the limitations far too much), Aion has only been out for 3 years. Which means that it would still be protected even under the most lax timeline you’ve described.
- Cops Bust Tower of Aion “Pirate Server” Admin & Players:
To all the copyright zealots in this thread: Copyright is not theft by any legal or even logic definition of the term. It is another infraction entirely. Copyright exists for a few hundred years, which is basically nothing compared to the History of the human race. Most of humanity’s creation came before its existence. It was created because society felt that it would be a benign stimulus to creation, and for some time it was. Formerly copyright was 14 years after creation with a possible 14 …
Recent comments by Anonymous:
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You guys are still forgetting the whole point. It’s always been obvious that a PC is superior to any Console released so far.
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I would suggest a strike on not buying them consoles but dumb people will buy them anyway.
- Xbox One “Clearly Inferior” To PS4, Sony Stock Surges:
You don’t know what you are talking about. Unified memory works poorly on IBM based hardware because the GPU is so far from the main memory. If the GPU and CPU are put closer, then memory bus latency drops, which means less idling while waiting for memory operations to complete. Unified RAM can make rendering much faster, if latency is resolved.
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That’s a deep realization imagined by your mind. what the gamers really want is simplicity at its best. a console which has improved graphics(because we believe our generation can do that.) and offer them plenty of good games to enjoy…And what gamers don’t want is excessively paying for fees. which is why XBOX is unfavorable because it achieves to make an impression of milking your money without clearly showing what kind of games it would offer the gamers.
- Xbox One “Clearly Inferior” To PS4, Sony Stock Surges:
@Tama Well then, the text “One” is encoded as the number 4f6e65 (=5205605 in decimal), which over 14e+3 times bigger than the 360!
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