Also, I would like to get to your unethical point. If a magazine obviously does not like your product, why the hell would you place your advertisements on there. That would be like placing a PETA ad in a catalog for fur coats. If game magazines did not want to be pressured by game companies, maybe they should find a different revenue stream to support their efforts.

And someone cannot just break a contract.  It is a contract for a reason.  There had to be some reason why the contract was able to be gotten out of.  Perhaps they should be taking a closer look at the contracts before they agree to them.

Well, it's his own fault.. But he game the film a good review didn't he? Why would they be mad?

Because it was a downloaded copy and supposedly the movie was not finished yet.  The fact that he mentions it being downloaded and saying that it was easier than going out in the rain was probably the biggest reason.

You're welcome to enjoy whatever you want. If you like aintitcoolnews, no problem. That doesn't mean that their opinion needs to be respected.

How could you possibly argue that everyone's opinion is equal? Obviously an expert's opinion is worth more than the opinion of a layman. Similarly, you can love Us Weekly or whatever you enjoy, but it is generally agreed by reasonable people that "People" and other fluff magazines are not legitimate sources of news and are their opinions are not respected as such.

How do you prove this? You can't obviously. How do you prove that Shakespeare is more sophisticated than Guns N Roses or Motley Crue? Again, you can't. There is no official or absolute metric to measure this by, but reasonable people reasonably agree that this is true.

If you enjoyed a movie like "300" that's absolutely fine, but the majority of respected of film criticism does not agree with you, and the same is true of aintitcoolnews.

Imo theres something missing from that movie...

This is pretty tangential, so feel free to ignore this post, but...there is an entire school of thought, both in business and law, which recognizes and encourages what are called "efficient breach of contract," i.e. breaches in which the breachor can allay much of the harm caused by the breach while still benefitting society as a whole. So ethical barriers are breaking down even there.

....yeah, I'll shut up now.

Yeah, but it's still kind of stupid on fox's behalf. I mean, if that version is incomplete, their ads could say "the incomplete version was perfect.... Now watch the version that will make you shit awesome"

I read this article...he was a moron...Fox is getting the freaking FBI to investigate and track down the issue, and he is reviewing the stolen copy...like...WTF did you get a copy to watch...definitely a moron, and I can't believe I'm defending Fox.

Bod, you're not going to get any where with Jagged. It's like he simply can't comprehend the idea of ethics. He keeps talking from a business perspective, when clearly that's not the issue. It's people with views like his in control of some of these companies that are causing all of this.

Well, perhaps you cannot see the issue from the view point of a publisher.  Answer me this.  Why on earth would a publisher spend the money to send an early review of a game to someone when they know that it will recieve bad scores?  Spend money to lose money?  Not how that saying goes.  It makes absolutely no sense.  Perhaps magazine business models should not rely on early copies, or business models based solely on advertising dollars from the very products they are reviewing.

The publishers cannot say, "you cannot print a review of my game".  They are saying, "we will not give you a copy of our game before the release date".  If the journalists did not want to sacrifice their integrity, they would wait until the game was released to the public and write their untainted views there.

I will probably not post again in this thread because my view points are completely different than anyone else, and I will not get anywhere.  It is easy for people to have view points on matters where they have no stake what so ever.