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[Juggs69]

http://soundcloud.co...ze-of-the-fenix TENACIOUS D IS BACK!!

Full album apparently.

I saw Tenacious D maybe 9 years ago. I'm so excited that they're back & Jack Black's new movie Bernie looks pretty awesome too.

[Arm Cannon]

The day our tour ends, I'm headed to Blipfest and The Protomen are headed to Vancouver to play w Tenacious D. It's kind of a big deal

[Bonkers]

As for pirating, do it.

As for pirating, don't do it. If not because of the immorality of it, then because of 17 U.S.C. §504©

Also, I think there's a fair number of programmers here, who generally aren't that sympathetic toward infringing copyrights. (There's obviously exceptions, but most programmers want some control over what they write, and most aren't hypocrites, IME.)

So you might find you're on the wrong end of a frown or two saying things like that, Brandon.

Edit: Full disclosure, I sometimes share some music ripped from CD with friends.

Don't most programmers who program stuff for big name games or whatever not even OWN what they create? I was under the impression that 99.99% of anyone who makes something for a company, doesn't actually own the rights to their own work. The company does unless they work out a contract that states otherwise.
Like how you see copyrights for Yuzo Koshiro on some games IE Bare Knuckle/Streets of rage.

[Eric Dude]

You know what never gets played out? Debates over software/music/etc piracy. Forum gold!

[auriplane]

Don't most programmers who program stuff for big name games or whatever not even OWN what they create? I was under the impression that 99.99% of anyone who makes something for a company, doesn't actually own the rights to their own work. The company does unless they work out a contract that states otherwise.
Like how you see copyrights for Yuzo Koshiro on some games IE Bare Knuckle/Streets of rage.

Yeah, that's pretty much true, to the best of my knowledge. I don't own anything I programmed until a couple years ago.

You know what never gets played out? Debates over software/music/etc piracy. Forum gold!

Sorry! "As for pirating, do it" rubbed me the wrong way.

Well, I'm not really "sorry", so I shouldn't say that, but I will be quiet. I need to stop foruming anyway. Distractions, distractions, distractions . . .

[Eric Dude]

No, I totally understand why BS's comments irked you, but a piracy discussion is about as fun as a thread about abortion.

[mercatfat]

what we really need to liven this place up is another incest thread.

[Brandon Strader]

I did say I'd be bothered by pirating A Kingdom for Keflings!

I stand up for the LITTLE GUY (and girls) (and Keflings)

[Bonkers]

I LIKE COWS.


MOO

[LuketheXjesse]

what we really need to liven this place up is another incest thread.

Who the hell even made that again?

[Klatrymadon]

[Sam]

Don't most programmers who program stuff for big name games or whatever not even OWN what they create? I was under the impression that 99.99% of anyone who makes something for a company, doesn't actually own the rights to their own work. The company does unless they work out a contract that states otherwise.
Like how you see copyrights for Yuzo Koshiro on some games IE Bare Knuckle/Streets of rage.

Copyright for works made in the ordinary course of an employee's job belongs to the employer, unless there is an agreement otherwise.

Copyright in certain works-for-hire by a contractor belongs to the employer only when there is a written contract saying so.



The exam is Wednesday afternoon.

Sam, the Neon Orange Knight

[Klatrymadon]

[Daemon9623]

I was listening to Brass 2 on random on the way to work this morning and I got every single excitebike in a row and then it landed on Kid Icarus.

[Classic-wolf]

You know what? I honestly don't think the term Pirating is applicable here, since when you copy something on the computer, it's a perfect copy and the current trends have more to do with friendship than theft.
When you enter the realm of selling burnt DVDs, then that's pirating, it's the attempt to make money off of it that is what can be malevolently affecting the e! industry's "business".
Otherwise, it can be considered a private viewing, regardless of method of non-physical data transfer and level of anonymity.
So long as the content originally came from a Disk, Cassette, DVR Recording or other legal source.

At least this is the stance I would take on it, in summary; it's about evolution of the mind and the ability to intake large amounts of data without relenting or becoming too tangential to be effective.

EDIT: And yes, Entertainment is a large part of this, as this is part of intaking information, and it's as large a part of your life as you make it. Unfortunately in this sedentary society, we have a lower lowest common denominator which turns to Television programming or a feature film rather than a educational source of information; so it is a VERY large part of our society.
In the information age, current copyright laws are obsolete in every sense of the word, not to mention just plain unconscionable when combined with the practice of the current profiteers.

EDITEDIT: Owow! Lookit Sam bein' all legal n' stuff!
That is good information to know!
Thank you!