Post by FM-77AV on Aug 23, 2008 8:48:15 GMT -5
Nunuu: Games based on movies suck 100% of the time because the developers KNOW it's going to sell anyway, the grey mass will buy it. Children, parents of children, etc. Why put an effort into something that's going to sell just as much even if you don't?
Seems to me that piracy is much more common than most of us seem to think. I remember taping shows on VHS and BETA back when I was young, or taping my favorite songs off the radio. Coping a buddies new cassette was standard, and mix tapes were very common. For some reason, its become very "political" to do all those things now. Back then it wasn't so taboo, and for some reason its very frowned upon now. Perhaps with the advent of the "Digital Age", where products that don't even physically exist cost money, we have lost a sense of technological freedom. IMO if there wasn't a record button in the first place, I don't think anyone would have thought to copy in the first place.
The whole "taboo" thing is completely foreign to me. In Europe (or more specifically, Scandinavia), there is nothing taboo about piracy. Honestly, there's no taboo at all. Everybody talks about it. Everybody shares. Everybody does it. We have the expression: "Sharing is caring". Yes, here it is a NICE thing to pirate something for someone. Hey, can you download that latest album for me, or that dvd box set of the latest season of House? It's being talked about openly everywhere, even on the news and in the newspapers.
From forum experiences though, it does seem to be taboo in North America however. I blame it on the big companies though. They're brainwashing you people. Seriously.
I found another norwegian guy who feels the same, but puts it in a better way than I did. This quote is a response he made to some guy who found an exploit in Wii, which would enable you to play burned games on an unmodded console. But instead of sharing this exploit, he tried to contact Nintendo's engineers about it, letting them fix it.
The whole "taboo" thing is completely foreign to me. In Europe (or more specifically, Scandinavia), there is nothing taboo about piracy. Honestly, there's no taboo at all. Everybody talks about it. Everybody shares. Everybody does it. We have the expression: "Sharing is caring". Yes, here it is a NICE thing to pirate something for someone. Hey, can you download that latest album for me, or that dvd box set of the latest season of House? It's being talked about openly everywhere, even on the news and in the newspapers.
From forum experiences though, it does seem to be taboo in North America however. I blame it on the big companies though. They're brainwashing you people. Seriously.
I found another norwegian guy who feels the same, but puts it in a better way than I did. This quote is a response he made to some guy who found an exploit in Wii, which would enable you to play burned games on an unmodded console. But instead of sharing this exploit, he tried to contact Nintendo's engineers about it, letting them fix it.
Dear Bushing,
I find your comment “Dear Nintendo” quite strange.
Instead of playing nice with Nintendo, I believe you should release that bug to the public domain so that we can make a program for the homebrew channel to run backups - a softmod.
In Norway, where I live, it is perfectly legal to sell modded systems and it is reasonable under fair use. Furthermore, making copies of software to close friends and family is not only legal - it is seen as legit and normal behavior.
If you live in the U.S. (I don’t know where you live so it’s just to support my chain of thoughts) you might get problems from releasing such software, and you might have a different world view from many other people in the world in regards to these things. However, you would be in your full right to publish the details about the circumvention method, and also ethically on fair ground if you were to encourage Scandinavian modders to make the softmod and release it.
Apart from that I would like to say that I really appreciate all your good work to bring homebrew to the Nintendo Wii. I’m using ScummVM and Gecko loader and loads of other software and I really appreciate homebrew enthusiasts like you that enable all this.
However, I don’t see any separation or any strong need for the homebrew secene to differentiate itself from the copying scene. It’s a non-issue to me. They are different, but the need to prove it isn’t there IMHO - particularly because in most parts of the world ethics are different from what big corporations have brainwashed people to belive in America.
I find your comment “Dear Nintendo” quite strange.
Instead of playing nice with Nintendo, I believe you should release that bug to the public domain so that we can make a program for the homebrew channel to run backups - a softmod.
In Norway, where I live, it is perfectly legal to sell modded systems and it is reasonable under fair use. Furthermore, making copies of software to close friends and family is not only legal - it is seen as legit and normal behavior.
If you live in the U.S. (I don’t know where you live so it’s just to support my chain of thoughts) you might get problems from releasing such software, and you might have a different world view from many other people in the world in regards to these things. However, you would be in your full right to publish the details about the circumvention method, and also ethically on fair ground if you were to encourage Scandinavian modders to make the softmod and release it.
Apart from that I would like to say that I really appreciate all your good work to bring homebrew to the Nintendo Wii. I’m using ScummVM and Gecko loader and loads of other software and I really appreciate homebrew enthusiasts like you that enable all this.
However, I don’t see any separation or any strong need for the homebrew secene to differentiate itself from the copying scene. It’s a non-issue to me. They are different, but the need to prove it isn’t there IMHO - particularly because in most parts of the world ethics are different from what big corporations have brainwashed people to belive in America.
