It’s not shaming if the identity isn’t given. It’s not their fault the guy went ahead and revealed himself and news articles sprung up around it. And yeah, they’re doing their job, but that also means that there was a huge risk that someone else who wasn’t purposefully putting their life in danger could have lost…

Well, the definition of “master” in this case is an original from which copies are made, with the copies being the versions sold to the public. A “remaster” is touching up and changing the original, from which the copies of are made and sold. So, yeah, it’s still correct.

Don’t think that would work even for the most nerdy of otaku.

It’s really not, not to them anyway. They actually got upset that the nuke weapon in Fallout 3 was renamed in Japan to be more sensitive to them. It’s almost like some cultures actually move on, though it might also have to do with the fact that post WW2 was an economic boom for them, which likely wouldn’t have…

I think some of it sounded fine, but others didn’t have much... effort, or feeling, or whatever you’d call it. Like when he’s shouting after her when they’re falling at about 2:15. Also, I hadn’t seen anything for this game yet and I have to say that MC deserves a nomination for “Most Generic Looking Character”. You…

Agreed, while I’m sure there are some, I don’t think most pirates believe that they’re entitled to the works of others. They just want something, nobody said anything about feeling like they deserve it, that’s adding a layer onto a character that just isn’t shown. Hell, most pirates don’t even actually justify their…

Whoa now, that ain’t right. You need to look into why Copyright retention being extended for so long is a bad thing, I can’t explain it well myself, but it basically boils down to creative evolution that you can’t provide and others can, and waiting for an entire lifetime to pass means you’re leaving that creative…

Youtube payouts are ridiculously low. There’s a reason why most content creators link to a Patreon now.

You didn’t mention that though, and it depends on how difficult it is vs how worth cracking it is. Things like security keys for video games are cracked in a few days because the security methods they use don’t bother to actually update. Yours should be using far more than just a simple registration authentication if…

The world doesn’t work that way. There are no set morals everyone believes in, and they change all the time. How long ago do you think it was that it was okay for a husband to beat his wife for disobeying him? The answer is “It’s still okay in some places”, that’s how the morality of the world is. Do I think it’s…

I’m gonna be very honest with you right now since you removed the hypothetical...I’m very sorry you live in a world where you have to worry about someone suing you because they were stupid enough to trip on your garden hose that you left out on the lawn and somehow managed to break an ankle. However, if you’re…

So, that counterpoint is trying to show how purchases increased after Megaupload died mid-2012... but they just came back as MEGA in January 2013, and the spikes are mostly from January 2013 onward. From that, it’s pretty easy to conclude that a single factor is, and generally never has been, the reason for something…

I would say if you didn’t have some kind of security feature between you and that third party to prevent such a thing from happening, you shouldn’t have your job in the first place. Though, it doesn’t much matter as most software isn’t like that, you’re just trying to push an extreme example towards people who have no…

That would be really neat if it actually worked that way, but in order for a copy to be generated, it had to have been gained from the first party in the first place. Unless that copy was copied directly from the source, the first party’s copy had to be purchased (key word “FIRST”, not the site or torrent you got it…

That doesn’t matter, it’s not the topic of discussion. “It’s bad” is a moral issue, and morals change from person to person and most people can’t actually back up their claim to morality, especially in this kind of case as digital media is still relatively new enough that it’s hard to transition from the fact that…

Not to mention Jesus copied bread and fish himself.

Uh, no, it’s really not the same...and the fact you don’t understand why without having to be told is kind of sad. If you shoplift from a bestbuy, that’s a physical item they could have sold to someone else but no longer can. A digital item can be copied infinitely, if you take a copy, they aren’t losing stock that…

You can’t use the word “Most” and then use “100% guaranteed”, if it’s most it has to be anywhere from a 51% to a 99% chance, because if only most criminals are good at it, then there’s a chance he’s not, so it can’t be guaranteed.

Actually, no, it’s nothing like a restaurant accepting some form of loss, because that’s also physical goods: the actual fucking food that you have a limited supply of. The point of making food is to take something not as expensive and make something delicious out of it to gain a profit off of what you spent to make…

That’s not what the article is about though. Did you just happen to miss the many years of industries like Hollywood making anti-piracy PSA videos, saying how it puts people out of jobs and ruins the industry and that if it keeps up then they couldn’t afford to keep making the things you love anymore? Yeah, the study…