I'm sorry you said you weren't going to repeat yourself.

Sadly probable.

Wait a minute, that means you are shit!

I think I will never get to know why a bad derivative makes the original worse.

Oh well, I survived this long without knowing, I'm sure I'll manage to live in my ignorance.

You will never know how did the arthurian legends survive and remained popular to this day. It's a mystery.

Two points I would like to make, even though they have been made already. Repetition is at times key to learning.

First: Lovecraftian is both a genre, and an applicable title to H.P. Lovecraft's work. (i.e. Lovecraftian genre: Horror that is otherworldly, bizarre, odd, a part of the cosmic unknown, etc...)

And Second: For an article about the abuse, of marking up the prices of old works, that the author himself claims to be in a more eminently profound position as to determine there worth. The only games distribution service named, (i.e thrown under the bus) is GOG. No mention of Steam, Gamersgate, Humble Store, etc... Is it not fascinating that currently Steam is pushing old titles into their catalog, and highlighting them each week as new releases... And yet still only GOG is mentioned. Truthfully I do not see conspiracy, just poor writing. It's a little long, and certain ideas are recycled far to many times.

But please continue, the fountains of Beer and Popcorn on my day off, are endless...

Beer sounds good right now.

Personally, I really enjoyed the "mists of avalon" take on them, while I watched some recent TV series on it and found it cringeworthy. I'm sure other people will feel differently. But none of it makes the original legend better or worse, it's still right there.

[url=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJzeC6vnurY[/url]

Here we go.

Upholding the copyright is an expense to the society, so for the authors to enjoy a limited period of protection they are required to release their expired works to public domain. But for fun, let's think about another model where the authors are required to pay annually to the government for them to bother to enforce the copyright. How much would
you be ready to pay year after year to keep your works out of public domain? And don't try to give any percentages of annual income as then the system could be trolled just by anonymously seeding thousands of almost forgotten works and reporting them so that the police is required to waste their resources on a matter that provides no benefit to the society.

Want to keep your ideas from public domain? Then don't ever tell them to anyone and make sure that anything written down by you is destroyed before the eventual terminal existence failure takes away you and your sacred thoughts from this dimension.

Meh, this one is better.

Awful idea. Super rich successful assholes would cling to their rights until they draw their last breath while the average artist couldn't afford doing this kind of work anymore and inevitably all intellectual property would end up in possession of a few huge companies that make all their money off other people's intellectual property and the most valuable property would still be kept out of the public domain.

Funnily enough we already have a similar situation in the German music industry where the GEMA is in control of fucking everything, practically takes away all the artists' freedoms and exploits the masses of lesser artists to maintain a tiny elite of rich fucks.

Also: how would you determine a "unit" of IP that has to be paid for? Say, would a song cost like 50 bucks a year? Okay, in that case people would stop making albums containing lots of songs and start making single pieces that go on forever. Or would it be calculated per minute? In that case musicians would make shorter songs. It gets truly absurd with products like video games with their zillions of assets. Should a tiny indie game with ten sprites be worth as much as a huge RPG with tens of gigabytes of assets? Or should the IP cost more as its size grows? It just doesn't work. You can't just come up with some rational system that universally defines absolute values for something as abstract and diverse as intellectual property. Again, that's the kind of stuff the GEMA does and where it epically fails.

Like religions : don't underestimate the tenacity of a spontaneously widespread rumour ;)

I have nothing to say about the article itself but I will say our current copyright and patent laws are severely f'ed in the a'. The right to works can get cobbled in so much bureaucracy and petty bickering that they'll never see the light of day again. We have corporate entities and their lobbies like Universal Music Group, the RIAA and so forth aggressively prosecuting anyone who downloads or uploads a few songs or a movie or theirs. Look at people who sit on the rights to a game they could easily release any time but refuse to. Some who even have the gall to threaten legal action against anyone who dares try to share a download of the damn game they refuse to release. Look at patent trolls. Look at Aaron Schwartz and what happened to him.

The whole pile of shit needs to be scrapped much like the rest of our corrupted legal system and something not insane put in its place.

All day, every day; It is like they are oblivious to the fact that as the only PC-exclusive commercial gaming site, they have a captive audience.

Instead of actually trying to promote the medium with comprehensive coverage and quality articles, they spend all day stiring up controversy and throwing tantrums.

You would think that with as much influence they have on the medium as a whole, they would want to combat the stereotype of PC gamers being petulant, self entitled shit heads; not embrace it.

I would have no problem with a Copyright Enforcement tax, providing it isn't stupid.

Say like 3% of the sale price ... if something isn't being sold, then why should the government protect it, but at the same time if you are selling something that isn't yours then that same tax will go towards paying back the cost of shutting you down.

Added bonus is that if something is being pirated in a large enough quantity for for the government to take notice of it, they would then have a drive to enforce the copyright as they would be loosing out on that tax money.

... Just a random thought, I have no real idea what you guys are talking about as I don't care enough to look through this entire thread.