Author Topic: Help stop SOPA now!  (Read 5829 times)

Cameron

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2012, 06:42:34 PM »
slightly related: no more megaupload :(

Narga

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2012, 09:27:52 PM »
I don't understand why anybody would even want to fight piracy, unless it's for money. So I have no ethical problems on beind a pirate myself.

The problem is that the software you're pirating causes the person who owns the copyrights to loose money. If all of your customers would rather download that free, pirated version, of your software then you maybe in danger of becoming bankrupt.

But I do agree that businesses are becoming more greedy. Back then, you could get a video game for around $20. Now you have to pay ≥ $50 for a video game.

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2012, 01:33:54 AM »
It's worse in UK you pay £50 for a brand new game

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2012, 12:51:08 PM »
It's worse in UK you pay £50 for a brand new game

lol if youre paying £50 youre looking in the wrong places :)

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2012, 10:19:57 AM »
What the intercourse.
Because of that poor american excrement all my meddling hacks are somehow closed, it automaticly goes to that site that shows you
NO DIS IS BLOCKED BLACK LIST NIGG'.
EDIT: Hacks for SA-MP, and other games (not pball if u think i am noob retarded and stupid like arab)

PGPSandman

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2012, 06:33:22 PM »
I do kind of agree about the ridiculous pricing of software. What does Autodesk 3DS Max have that makes it worth $3,000 when with Google Sketchup and all the needed plugins which would come to about $125 total can do exactly the same thing and much easier? Some game making software too, pay $0 to make games for yourself but to license and sell games it will cost you $5,000 to $15,000 for a piece of paper saying you can sell them. No wonder game prices shot up high so people can recoop their investment. In some cases I did not care what SOPA would do but others, being an american and knowing we have a constitution that gives rights to us that SOPA is taking away. Either do right or burn that worthless piece of scrap paper if it means nothing anymore.

omni

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2012, 01:38:24 AM »
lol if youre paying £50 youre looking in the wrong places :)
Probably but I usually just wait half a year or so so it lowers in price.

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Re: Help stop SOPA now!
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2012, 06:58:57 PM »
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/248586/sopa_and_pipa_what_went_wrong.html

As for game prices, you have to keep in mind that games used to be developed by small teams of 10-20 people for a year or two.  AAA titles these days usually have teams of hundreds of people working for 3-5 years.