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i have. in my old group, one of the players was using a prestige class from songs and silence and one or two feats from i can't remember what supplement, without having them in hard copy. he said he wasn't interested in the rest of the books. to be fair, he never used more than that, though.

same boat here, mate! :) well, i usually do not buy copyprotected cds, either. but i really really must (or when the web site does not say that the cd is copyprotected... i ended up buying the first kings of leon album because of that! :I), i simply connect my cd player to my recording stuff...

there's a better answer. 1. Kamikaze Midget is talking apples and oranges. the artists receives 100% of the royalties every time the song is used in any way. the money he gets out of record sales has absolutely nothing to do with copyright. 2. there are artists that are getting 100% out of their...

there would be :):):):) as well. there's always a good amount of :):):):) in the output. it's congenital. in fact, i bother that much that people is buying any other music that is not recorded/ produced/ written by me... :) that doesn't mean that, as soon as i will get lucky i will go out of my...

you see, i see a number of problems with that statement. 1. last time i checked, i didn't see anybody trying on these boards to say that breaking the law was acceptable or desiderable. 2. last time i checked, the other side was ignoring the point of other people's posts just as well... the fact...

since you of course are so insightful, i will admit i need a lecture. could you please point me to one example in which the same game was given in a graphic heavy option for a price and in a crappy graphic version for a reduced amount? can you point me to the exact point in which i made any...

i have a hunch that what the public buys is not just the actual product... :) for example, i would buy a new edition of the OD&D rules, despite the fact that i do agree that, generally, the system was way less efficient than the d20 one. but i wouldn't buy just a system. i would buy a dive in my...

i think i'm gonna have a t-shirt with these two last quotes, if i graciously get the permission from the copyright holders... :D

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=870 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050727-5139.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040329-3585.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/27/p2p_users_legal_downloads/ http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/11542...

i second that emotion. :)

maybe you're right. still, i am neither rich nor powerful, and i like milo's venus a lot! ;)

ehm... maybe you're reading another guy's post. i'm just saying what it's like to me. i ain't appealing to anybody. maybe the world outside is really bad and dangerous and bleak and evil. my experence is that it's not that bad, and i like it. i'm not so naive to assume that everybody is a friend...

i can't believe that anybody in his right mind would need britney spears's music. after i saw her success, i changed my mind on marketing, and now i do believe that if you have a nice face and a lot of support, you could fart in your mike and everybody would buy your record. go out in the...

where did i say that, exactly? you are very well entitled to have your tastes, whatever they are. but it is you who are assuming that: 1. the majority of the market demands high quality graphic, and would demand it even if not having it would produce a consistent drop in the final price. 2. if...

sorry, that example doesn't work. the piano player didn't sell to the household who could afford hiring a musician... they were too crappy to aim to that. any well rehearsed musician (i'm not talking about monster of technique and execution) could beat a player piano playing with a hand tied to...

indeed it was... :) thanks. sometimes, not being a native speaker doesn't help... it depends who you ask. at the end of the day, mr. patron and mr. EMI or mr. SONY music provide exactly the same thing: money to put out music they want to listen. personally, i would rather deal with mr...

i know... i'm switching to linux soon...

you are completely right. in fact, the whole napster bubble originated when the labels realised that napster had the potential to win the distribution of music for the new generation of consumers. besides, it's not just a question of internet-land angast. if you want to learn more about the...

a good computer game TODAY requires such a stuff, because if you have to pay 50$+ for a game, you expect something like flashy graphic, patches update, a reasonably long and complex game, and so on. i have owned a computer of some sort ever since i was 4, and i can remember very well the days i...

Sigil: I appreciate your post, even if i tend to think that the problem with the copyright law does not lie much in the extension of the copirighted time, by, as you point out as well, in the general attitude of the big corporations, which are effectively exploiting their money and the loopholes...