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May 21, 2005 at 2:48 am #115784QwertyMember
Yeah but a game is made by a team of people. You can’t say being a top band is easy.
Think about how much work Oasis have put into their new album for the last, say, few months only for some loser to put copied versions on the internet for it to be ilegally downloaded by hundreds of people.
May 21, 2005 at 4:44 pm #115766DavidParticipantQwerty wrote:Yeah but a game is made by a team of people. You can’t say being a top band is easy.Think about how much work Oasis have put into their new album for the last, say, few months only for some loser to put copied versions on the internet for it to be ilegally downloaded by hundreds of people.
They still have concerts though. And games take much longer than a few months, I’m quite sure that a lot more work went into Half-Life 2 than did Oasis’s new album.
May 22, 2005 at 2:27 am #115785QwertyMemberDavid wrote:They still have concerts though. And games take much longer than a few months, I’m quite sure that a lot more work went into Half-Life 2 than did Oasis’s new album.Yeah… and that’s why it costs more than the new album…..You can’t justify downloading music just because games take more time and efort.
May 22, 2005 at 6:30 am #115772EEDOKMemberQwerty wrote:Yeah but a game is made by a team of people. You can’t say being a top band is easy.Think about how much work Oasis have put into their new album for the last, say, few months only for some loser to put copied versions on the internet for it to be ilegally downloaded by hundreds of people.
yea take a look into this at another perspective, Doom 3 took years to make and was pirated days before it was even released. Plus musicians have alternate sources of income that games can’t do that are sufficient to sustain an acceptable lifestyle(concerts, licensing songs for commercials, endorsements, etc). If this was seriously harming musicians they wouldn’t be living in huge mansions, with millions of dollars a year income.EDIT: just saw your post, this isn’t to justify that downloading music is right, just saying they’re focusing on stopping the wrong kind of material on P2P.
May 22, 2005 at 8:55 am #115786QwertyMemberIt’s not just musicians who make the music who are effected by piracy. What about the other guys in the food chain? The guys who work in the record company? Who work in the factories that make the cd’s? etc.
The CEO’s and major musicians arn’t being hurt in piracy, it’s the little guys. The guys who are mates with the guys who go home and download music cause ther’re pay check is just short of that extra $20 or so needed for a cd.
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