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superchunk said: 1. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=46204 and other sources stated same. I concede my example of drugs was bad as it soley has to do with patent expiration. 2. Simply replacing skins, while technically legal, would be illegal in my book. That is not what I was stating. I stated I took an idea, battleship type of game, and created a *new* game with a fully *new* experience. That is the same thing as making a new FPS alien war themed game. It may have 90% of the same features as Halo, but its not Halo. Plus, simply reskinning it as you mentioned is still taking someone else's content without consent, i.e. theft. You didn't create a new game from ground up. Perfect example is Scrabble. Scrabble was available on Facebook under a different name. However, it was identical to the board game version and thus got sued and removed. Another boardgame, Upwords is a scrabble like game, however, it has one major difference. You can replace the already played tiles with new tiles to make a new word. Not illegal as it is a completely new game based off of the scrabble idea. That is my battleboat game. While inherently based on Battleship, its a whole new experience.
I don't get the frustration of some of you here. Your side of the fence defined Theft already pages ago. Taking the content (iso) of a game and using it without consent fits perfectly into that definition. So its theft, plain and simple. |
I am glad to see you are reasonable on some things. Hopefully this makes you more willing to listen to my other arguements.
We are having a semantics debate here. I see you keep trying to skirt that, but at the end of the day that is what started this discussion. You see piracy as theft. The problem is that no reasonable definition of theft can be applied. I do not understand why you find it hard to understand why people keep coming back to this point. You can't continuously assert your opinion and just expect the rest of the forum to give in. Words have set meaning for a reason. Copyright infringement is not theft just like murder is not theft of life. Rape is not theft of sex either. We define them differently because their economic and social impacts are extremely different.
You seem to think of everyone against you as a single group of horrible software pirates. The truth is I disagree with many of the people posting, and do not pirate current video games ever. I, on occasion, get an old game that is unavailable through any other purchasing means. You can continue to argue with everyone as if there was some united plot of video game pirates out to get you, but the fact is it will only make you look bad. You have not come up with anything resembling an intelligent argument so far, and I have to assume it is because you view all those against you as attempting to defend the act rather than challenge your use of words.
