That’s what Washington has. Postage free mail in only. There’s polling places open on election day if you want them, but you’re just filling out the mail in ballot and dropping it into a locked box.

Move to Washington. We use an all paper system.

You really weren’t paying attention. Trademark and copyright laws require the holder to vigorously defend those things in order to protect them. Take something like Donkey Kong, where they owned the IP (clearly) but not the original code. They’d have to sue everyone who somehow got the original code and put it on the…

You’re not asking the right questions. Why are they suing the pirate? First, it’s easier and a much more clear violation of the law, which makes it a cheaper legal case.
Second, when I say legal, I mean more in the research and settlement of legal entanglements. Look at the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Nintendo…

Depends on WHY they’re sitting on it. Is there legal entanglements you as the consumer don’t know about (such as the Donkey Kong situation)?

Majority of people do it because. I know this will shock you, they don’t want to pay for it or can’t afford it. Older the pirate is, the more likely they are to claim they’re doing it to “demo” the game. 50% of people who admitted they pirated a game went on to claim they bought the game later, BUT (and I’ll have to…

Says the guy who fired the first Ad Hominem. Rich.

Is there some value in open source development? Sure. But it appears to be less common than you would suggest. 2016, tech crunch:

Or you know, I could look at the provisions of the Canadian version of the DMCA:

https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-morality-and-ethics
One has to remember that ethics and morality don’t have hard and fast definitions. The dictionary is simply static definitions of the words, but ideas like ethics and morals change and philosophers argue and debate the finer meanings.
As…

Copying hasn’t been a policable concept in just about anything for years. Doesn’t make it any more legal or ethical. From copying tapes to CDs, VHS to DVD or even Xerox machines, there’s been no efficent way to trace it for years. Just because you CAN do it, doesn’t make it legal or ethical.
As for the Supreme Court…

You won’t read because you’re afraid you’re wrong. Your whole arugment from moment one is “nuh huh, stealing is ok! Because I think the laws are unethical!” Meanwhile, you’ve shown zero ability to tell the difference between ethics and morals.
I’m done with you. Your level of ignorance is why people like Trump get…

He says, about a country where Nintendo sued a company for selling a chip that allowed people to bypass copy protection so they could make back up copies and have them work, and lost.

What is ethical and what is moral are two different things.
Ethics are imposed by society or social group, and is almost entirely spelled out by the law or the rules of the social group. Breaking the law is ALWAYS unethical, even if you don’t agree with the law.
Morals are personal standards and beliefs of what is…

Mock me all you want, but I’m not the one saying its totally ok to take the rights of the artists and designers away because you want something in a way you want it.
And oh yeah, its gone to the supreme court already, were you not paying attention? The Supreme Court said that the current enforcement of copyright on…

You don’t understand how console ports work do you? Let me give you a quick rundown on how it works and costs.
(Microsoft is losing money because they aren’t charging for the ports, they’re doing it entirely as a marketing gimmick, so it’s a unique situation. Also never said they had trouble porting them, both Sony and…

You do realize that ethics is entirely based on morals, and that breaking the law is considered unethical, even if you don’t agree with the law?
You also realize that the technology doesn’t matter right? If an author decides not to publish a book in an e-book format, that doesn’t suddenly make it legal for you to make…

Except they’ve been continually updating the DMCA, which blows up your whole point. Congress appointed the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office to update the law as needed to shut down those rabbit holes. Per the Copyright Office, if you were take that PS1 game, copy it onto a new medium that worked in the PS1…

Unless you live in a country with no copyright laws, you are incorrect. Most developed nations, The US, Japan, EU, Britian, all have an agreement stating that the other countries will honor the other’s copyright laws. Since the US and Japan both have laws on the books saying you can’t make a copy except as a straight…

Wow, that’s funny. Because almost every published legal paper I can find on it seem to say it’s the greatest thing to happen to recording artists, movie companies and video game makers. The only people complaining its useless and out of date are those same people who seems to be defending people in court over DMCA…