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gillyruless · 10-20-2005, 07:48 AM

The same old debate and the same old arguments. I just cannot accept the argument that the copyright laws are broken and they only award big corporations and not the original creator so it's ok for anyone to ignore them and use copy righted materials anyway they want. You go and talk to the creators, be they game devs, musicians, artists, or writers, and give them that argument. Assuming that they have created something that others demand, most of them will tell you that that argument is a big stinking pile of BS.

If the copyright laws are broken then they need to be fixed but the spirit of such laws, which is to protect the right of the creators so that they can be rewarded for their creation and the contribution they made to the society, is still valid. Copyright laws being broken does not give anyone the moral right to use/enjoy other people's creations without compensating them when they do not want you to. Make no mistake about it, that's what piracy of any type amounts to. Legal and linguistic semantics be damned. That to me spells theft.

10-20-2005, 07:48 AM	#21
gillyruless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,022	The same old debate and the same old arguments. I just cannot accept the argument that the copyright laws are broken and they only award big corporations and not the original creator so it's ok for anyone to ignore them and use copy righted materials anyway they want. You go and talk to the creators, be they game devs, musicians, artists, or writers, and give them that argument. Assuming that they have created something that others demand, most of them will tell you that that argument is a big stinking pile of BS. If the copyright laws are broken then they need to be fixed but the spirit of such laws, which is to protect the right of the creators so that they can be rewarded for their creation and the contribution they made to the society, is still valid. Copyright laws being broken does not give anyone the moral right to use/enjoy other people's creations without compensating them when they do not want you to. Make no mistake about it, that's what piracy of any type amounts to. Legal and linguistic semantics be damned. That to me spells theft. Last edited by gillyruless; 10-20-2005 at 08:18 AM.