Your All Pirates !!!!!!

I really found some of your views very interesting. I especially need to compliment bb_matt for his comments which I thought were excellent.

In respect of this I do most of my downloads via mirc, channel, Phazenet. Where do you all go for yours?

Yours truly,
 
Wanna compare notes on figurines?

I have ALL of the Turtles, Bebop, Rockstead and some rabbit dude.
I have some Masters of the Universe ones, including He-Man's tiger
I also have some of the Thundercats: The two small guys and the old man.

And a sh!thouse full of other odds and ends...

These things are worth quite a bit. A guy with a shop at the Rosebank Rooftop market said that I could get up to $45 for a Turtle in good condition! :D

So... no mocking of the "collections" :)
 
A friends of mine who used to work in a print shop made me some great thundercats merchandise as a present:
- A thundercat t-shirt
- A thundercat mug
- A thundercat baseball cap

They are.... precious to me. :)
 
Avast Ya Scarvy Scum
Ahoy Matey!
Aye, aye, captain
Dead men tell no tales
Grab thee a wench
Li'ly libbered land lubbers
Polly wanna cracker?
Shiver me timbers
Swab the deck!
There be treasure in them thar hills
"X" marks the spot
Yo ho, yo ho
 
I think he has been lost at sea for a while & has scurvy, or at least I think that's what he was trying to say :D
 
hehe - nah, just had waaaaaay too much to drink after a late lunch that started at 2pm and ended at 7pm - lots of wine.

It tends to have that effect on me sometimes, the combination of booze and the internet can be quite remarkable sometimes :D
 
Oh well that explains the scurvy & dehydration effects then - at least it is safe to drink & drive on the information superhighway.

PS: theYak - bb_matt has adsl so no Burst-i problems ;)
 
oh! well, if he has ADSL then he has no problem!

he was just drunk then...

I was I was drunk last night, then I wouldn't have screamed at the CEO of WBS :)
 
Thundercat stuff

Hey could someone please tell me where i could get hold of thundercat merchandise in South Africa or alternatively where I could get it printed on T-shirts, mugs etc...ASAP

martin said:
A friends of mine who used to work in a print shop made me some great thundercats merchandise as a present:
- A thundercat t-shirt
- A thundercat mug
- A thundercat baseball cap

They are.... precious to me. :)
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James said:
Lol, I was reading that dooms 3 was available on bit torrant about 2 hours after the unofficial release. It was freely downloadable on the net. Just over that time and there where 5000 people pulling the file, 120min!!! Times that by R300. That is R1500000 lost! If any thing the figures there are underestimated. Did I mension that that was 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no peace without war!!!
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Where is any proof of these 5000 people not buying the game when it got released officially? Most people going so far as to leeching unreleased games, would buy it, since these are the hardcore supporters..

The people usually not buying games, would be the arb downloader, getting his hands on a game after the release.

This same example has been proven with the music industry, even tho they still claim they lose money, they actually gain according to alot of research also done regarding p2p music sharing.. since most of the people actually leech then buy, people dont want to buy **** nemore.
 
Every Single person in the World is a pirate, you are all breaking copyright law, every single day you surf the internet.... Do you know why? Hyperlinks.... Every single time you click a hyperlink you break copyright law. You are a pirate!

And yes this is true, but does anybody care? no! because it irrelevant. So i dont think any body can point a finger at anyone else and say you have broken the law, cos everyone has. PPL who download music etc, would definatly buy albums etc, if the music industry actually sold them to them at a affordable price. The music Association is basically a glorified Telscum.
 
Well, Radiohead purposely leaked "Kid A" on the internet a few months before release. They did not release any radio singles. Despite that they managed to have a simulataneous no 1 spot (based on album sales) on both UK and US charts.

Moral of the story: If it's good, people will pay.

Of course, the flip side was not everybody who downloaded it bought it, but i'm sure they didn't really care.
 
How to underestimate the extremely powerful meduim of internet marketing.
A song somebody likes will spread to all his/her friends in one day.
Then their friends next day.
Then ...
The speed is so impressive it's unbelievable, and it's exponential.

But no [says distributor xggp], lets put a stop to all this free marketing.
We'd wrather pay for the marketing and overcharge the consumer.
That way our markup is bigger, and we make more moneee.

No - we're not greedy, we support the artists, who are not greedy. LOL.
 
Piracy is all about value at the end of the day.

Full points to the ZA game distributors who've been bring in games between R200-R300, and at the same time as Europe. I think that's fair. Add a decent demo, and why bother pirating?

When you artificially starve a market people will pirate. E.g. delaying ZA releases of movies (I saw finding Nemo in a computer store 3 months before it came on circuit ;) ) As far as music goes, the industry needs to get it's head out of it's bum. Why should we pay R170 for a CD when most DVD's cost less than that a few weeks after release? Compare production costs! I download what I don't know and buy what I like. I NEVER buy locally, it's cheaper to import from Amazon UK.

It's all fat cats wanting to get fatter. Music industry ~= Telkom.

They'll blame anything to keep their margins, with no regards to increasing volumes.
 
sburrell said:
Every Single person in the World is a pirate, you are all breaking copyright law, every single day you surf the internet.... Do you know why? Hyperlinks.... Every single time you click a hyperlink you break copyright law. You are a pirate!

Bull$.

You might be infereing to the long lost case where they tried patenting hyperlinks. Didn't work. Amazon's one-click is probably the closest. Even then, wouldn't the creators of the software be responsible - Why create a browser if the sole and only purpose is to break copyright ? Surely the RIAA or whomever would have gone after MS or NetScape a looooooooong time ago.

Companies pay to host their websites.
You pay to connect to the internet and surf. For some sites you pay extra.

Nowhere there has there been ANY indication of copyright infringement of any kind.

Think of the up and coming artist, making music in his or her garage; mixing with a cheap 16-bit sound-card, and publishing that: Where is the harm in that ? And by cutting out the middle the artist can make way more money. It's just a different business model.

So sorry if I take offense by you implying that every one of the millions of web hits every day is illegal and a copyright infringement - Somehow I seriously doubt that.
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i was not refering to the British Telecoms case in which they do own the original patents to hyperlink technolgys. Evry little piece of information on the internet is copyrighted by the owner who wrote it, everytime you click on a link, you are inadvertantly retrieving that information and breaking one or more copyright laws, all of which would never stand up in a court of law.
 
Copyright = A copyright is a form of intellectual property that grants its holder the sole legal right to copy their works of original expression, such as a literary work, movie, musical work or sound recording, painting, computer program, or industrial design, for a defined period of time.

That’s according to wikipedia, this is quite generic.

So for example if I asked you "Hey you remember that Britney Spears song, the one that goes hit the baby something or the other...". Now if you responded yes you did know the song that possibly makes you a copyright infringer depending on how much you liked the song, you may even remember all the lyrics and the tune from start to finish.

Of course this is a ludicrous example but it does not change the fact that you would have used your brain to make a copy of what you heard. Perhaps in a more Johnny Mnemonic like future people really will get sued for remembering songs.
 
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