Brother None said:
markec said:
Should they all just give shit for free, or does a game becomes free for all the moment its developers ceases to exist?
Pretty much, yeah. Publishers are greedy jews. What right have they to interpret a contract in which they invest all the money and carry all the risk in return of rights in perpetuity as actually meaning in perpetuity?
FILTHY THIEVES
I can't quite summon up the massive rage some people feel towards gog but there are some good points made here, or mainly all your points are just stupid ones that make no sense.
You show you don't understand the basic ideas of what ip is about then you go onto a ridiculous rage against people who at least have one foot in reality.
Most people never actually produce a goodamn thing in their lives, so when you do produce something you realize just what a load of work it is to do so. So yes people should have that work protected but it's to protect the people doing the actual work not so some slimebags can get a permanent monopoly or brand saturation that stifles out people who actually produce something.
Because the basis of communist revolution and of fascist revolution and french revolution is pretty similar. It goes along the lines of hey we have these motherfuckers (respectively landowners, bankers, and aristocrats) who have sewn up the market much in the fashion publishers have, but meanwhile we do all the work, and not only is there a great useless proletariat but much worse are the fuckers on top who control everything absolutely. So even though I grow 20 tons of wheat a year my kids are shoeless! What to do? Well answer that came to mind in all three cases was let's just kill these fuckers once and for all. Of course then you just get some new fuckers to come along, and then eventually they get killed off just like how the caesars had such a high death rate, especially the more rapacious and stupid they were.
So now we get the same thing here in ameriduh with the financial institutions where they are sort of like princes who don't actually do a fucking thing, in fact they are quite obstructive to getting anything done. Publishing companies are pretty much the same. They are pretty much greedily grasping for each dribble they can get out of the biggest market possible without caring about any sort of niche so of course only one publisher can win the casual game market.
But people like you play along with the system and even encourage it. No one needs to have 75 year copyrights on anything, let alone on PC games that don't even work on modern computers without 600 steps. No one needs for infinite credit to be given out either because credit doesn't produce anything but inflation in the long run, it should be kept to a moderate level not used to run up the economy at election time, and certainly not to be dictating policy of government as the creditors here are doing now.
So yes you are another serious internet person who at the core is just a jackass who should shut the fuck up already.
Buying from gog gets you more or less a guarantee that the game will work and be virus free so I see no need to hate on them needlessly, and maybe it kicks money back to publishers which in some way might (but effectively won't) fund further development of games that are similar to what was made, but abandonware does have plenty of precedent in the form of squatter's rights. The idea of land ownership is justified in the sense someone is actually making use of the land, developing it and benefiting from it. It used to be that large percentages of entire countries were owned by a couple companies just so they can speculate against futre value and maybe grow more pineapples on it. Now this ownership comes from exploitation or outright conquest in the first place, so how can you justify that half a country is starving while 80% of the country's prime farmland is lying fallow and owned by people who gained it by dubious means? Well, you can't, dumbass, but that is exactly what you are trying to do. And squatters do have rights just for the same reason, because the law is there to ensure that people are benefited not so a tiny percentage of the populance can consume greedily like pigs just to stamp out the other guy, which is exactly why pigs eat, not for sustenance but to starve the competition, which is exactly how bullies operate, it's not a game it's about taking out competition for resources but guess what that behavior is just what the laws of civilization are there to prevent.
So go back to your little anal retentive corner of the internet and blab there for a while.
