Yeah, but Square Enix still has the rights to FF3j and whatnot - that was merely a name change after two companies joined together. My last post was clearly asking about things that don't fall into that category =P
Yeah, but Square Enix still has the rights to FF3j and whatnot - that was merely a name change after two companies joined together. My last post was clearly asking about things that don't fall into that category =P
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I'd just like to point out that you are killing artists when you do that. You like that artist-so why not help him out be buying his cd? If everyone downloaded an up and coming artists work-that would kill the artist.Originally posted by Enoki
Downloading un-ethical? Why because the companies producing the music/games are losing a little money. Heres my view on the downloading of music at least. Lets say I want the song "still frame" by Trapt, and thats the only song I want. Whos the bigger thief? Me for downloading this one song, or the record company for forcing me to pay $19.99 for this one song plus 14 or 15 other songs I didnt want in the first place?
I'd also like to point out that there is no such thing as 'abandonware'. I know I used it-but I was using it _ethically_-legally, there is no such thing.
Just because ID software don't profit from Doom 2 right now _does not mean that they will not profit from it in the future_. Therefore you are braking the law when you choose to download and/or distribute it.
Unless a game is declared free to download or copyright runs out (which I'm under the impression that it doesn't) any software is illegal to download.
edit: Just a minute-I think I'm choking on my own hypocrisy.
Hello, I would like to see the sales figures you used to research this post, as I would take issue with this statement.Originally posted by Vincent06 But their songs coupled with 2 billion other people creates a huge decline in record sales that majorly effected [sic] their business.
Honestly, just because it's the Internet people think they don't have to cite sources. :rolleyes:
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i believe sales of records have gone up. then again, that could be misleading too since with population growth, inflation etc, perhaps they haven't grown as fast as they might have. still, I think downloading songs helps the record industry because it's a way to sample what you might like to buy.
If record sales have gone up, then the backruptcy of various record giants in the GTA (greater toronto area) doesn't add up. I don't think record sales have increased at all, which is why the RIAA is complaining.
if they want to sell more records, they should lower prices.
<div style="text-align: jusitfy;">I also don't think they're taking into account that some people will download just because they can - if that option wasn't there, doesn't mean they'd go buy the CD otherwise, they'd just do without instead, so I don't think people downloading songs and sales of records are perfectly inversely directly linked, as seems to be the idea the record companies seem to like to push about in their own defence.
In fact, as mentioned earlier, it's could also possibly the opposite since some people can sample what they might buy later on. Really though, there's too many factors going on to say that downloading definitely hurts artists, and you'd expect the RIAA and co. to focus on the negative sides of downloading and overlook the positive sides, since as far as they see, it means money to them if they win.</div>
The other problem is that every major record label owns every other one, so it is such a large company anyway that it can do pritty much what it wants. Which I feel is a little (even a tad) of an unetical approach.
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