| kuraobi said: @andersonalex : I totally agree. Intellectual Property is vanishing and more and more people think people who work with their mind don't deserve to be paid... Go ahead guys, don't pay for the people who use all their skill and creativity to create games, movies, music... Then all you'll get is youtube as your unique TV channel, and flash player as your unique gaming platform. Wonderful. |
They probably shouldn't be paid that way. That's the real problem. The buisness model doesn't fit the reality of the world.
So we make extra big brotherish laws to stop it. In reality people should probably be paid upfront for a game being made. Like it was in the old days before the big middle men started stepping in.
I would be happy if that would be the case and videogame makers had to switch their buisness model. (And i want to be one.)
I'm always for reality trumping buisness models.
When you get interventionists and protect someone because their buisness model doesn't work in the real world you get a bunch of worthless laws that screw up peoples rights.
Since it's not that way though, i don't think people should pirate...
however in reality people should be able to make a copy of whatever they want, whenever they can. Be it book, rice krispy treat, car or Poem.
I mean if I copy a poem out of a friends book am i also infringing on someones intellectual property? Intellectual property itself is kinda a scam if you ask me. Developers should be paid upfront, or paid after demoing something they keep.
