Aw. He thinks the guy is magically delicious. Daydreaming about his pot o gold at the end of the rainbow π
What's it good for? I mean, beyond good ol SSH?
Webmin is still aroundβ½
If you're constantly pawsing during a wag, you need to get out and bark more.
What about non-cam dogs? Not every bitch is on OnlyWags.
You've long since lost the plot and are now just trolling. It's patently obvious you don't know what you're talking about.
The meta level of this comment is just... Chef's π
Keep up the good work π
I have no idea what you're even talking about. The only way possible to "steal IP" is to break into someone's office/home/whatever and physically take it away. The only copy of that thing that exists.
Accidentally buying the wrong game would actually fall under a different area of law: Fraud and possibly trademark infringement. Though, you can't trademark (or even copyright) gameplay/mechanics...
In 1879(!) Baker v. Selden, the Supreme Court ruled that copyright protects only the expression of ideas (the text, illustrations, and phrasing), not the underlying ideas, systems, methods, or processes. This is important. The same rule applies to patents: They only cover the implementation of ideas, not the ideas themselves. Endless case law reaffirms this.
WHICH IS WHY SOFTWARE PATENTS SHOULD NOT EXIST.
I know it's unrelated, just wanted to throw it out there π
Yeah, if I physically stole the artwork, then yes? That's stealing. Let's cover all the bases, though, shall we?
If I took a picture of some art, is that stealing? No. That's not illegal anywhere.
If I then shared that picture with a friend? No. That doesn't count as a "public performance" or "public display" of the work.
If I then shared that picture with the Internet at large? Yes, that's copyright infringementβevery time someone downloaded it, that counts as one violation. Specifically, derivative copyright infringement (which is a whole world of law in itself).
Aside: The RIAA argued in court that merely placing one of their copyrighted movies/songs on the Internet counted as distributing their work to the entire world's (Internet) population and therefore, the defendant should be held liable for billions of copyright violations for each work they merely made available (who cares about the actual number of downloads, right? LOL). THEY ASKED FOR $72 TRILLION IN DAMAGES:
Saying "piracy is theft" is playing right into their hands. Unless you're a paid corporate shill/bot, you shouldn't be making arguments on their behalf. At this point you should be asking yourself, "Are we the baddies?"
Listen: Theft is a legal term, just like copyright. When someone steals something (theft), the owner of that thing doesn't have it anymore. When someone violates copyright the owner still has the thing and can continue to make as many copies of it as they like.
In the 80s, 90s, and 2000s the RIAA and MPAA had vast marketing campaigns trying to re-brand copyright violation as "theft". Copyright existed for centuries before Congress decided to pass The Sound Recording Act of 1971 and the Copyright Act of 1976 which was the first time (ever) that copying something without permission could be prosecuted as a criminal offense (instead of civil).
The "Piracy is Theft" thing is literally from one of their advertising campaigns! They invented it and it's nothing but pro-corporate propaganda. Do not think for one second that anyone stands to lose significant amounts of money from piracy other than corporations and even that's debatable.
Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. -Gabe Newell, founder of Valve Software (Steam)
Individuals have been copying stuff since forever and nobody cared until some bean counter invented the disproven concept of "one pirated thing == one lost sale." We all know that's not how it works! That entire concept is another form of "Hollywood Accounting":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
So no. Fuck no. It's not "splitting hairs."
What a bizarre thing. Why does this even matter?
If someone makes a bad clone of someone else's game concept will they have succeeded in anything? Shitty games are shitty games.
If someone makes a good clone of someone else's game concept they have beaten them to the market and that's how capitalism works.
If you don't like that, don't complain about AI. Complain about capitalism!