Who stole my planet.
LOL
How is this thread going hehe. :thumbup:
The silly thing about the music piracy thing is that it has to be converted somewhere along the line back to analogue so one may listen to it.
In my highschool days I had this really good stereo handheld tape recorder.
I was amazed how well I could record straight from speakers with it.
If they decide to crack down on this to a level in a super surveyed society.
It will simply be a form of tyranny, nothing other.
Just because one society decides this is how it's going to be, does not mean another society has to follow suit.
'When justice fails there is only/always force'
Maybe I should pay the poor primate or his descendents a royalty for the invention of fire when I want to be warm.
It's absurd.
We are not in a truthful economy anymore with true value.
Like Avatar I actually watched a crappy copy first and I enjoyed it.
I still went and watched it in 3D and paid my way for it in true quality.
So I was satisfied.
But what if I just go and pay for a movie and I am not satisfied, I can't go and get my money back, or can I.
I should try that next time.
2012 I thought was absolute rubbish and I am glad I didn't go to the cinema for that.
I would rather put that money in my fuel tank and keep the oil barrons happy.
They are probably the same people that have a vested interest in the Film Industry anyway.
So it's win win really.
It's not until you really start rolling in the dollars that you get noticed anyway.
As long as we all stay reasonably poor compared to these money scoundrels things will be fine,,,,, for a while.........
Who knows? <--- Good question to be answered.
So is anyone building these ships or what? :lol:
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I am just going to go to the absurd...
This sort of thing reminds me of the Wright brothers legal battle against Glen Curtis based on a patent they took out on the effects of air around a body (ie: aerodynamic control). When Curtis thought of ailerons to get around the Wright brother's wing warping method, they claimed it was the physical effect they had patented. Ummm. Didn't that belong to Pterodactyls? Or Dragonflies? In a very ridiculous broad sense, everything that can possibly be invented (or thought of) has already existed, and is merely "discovered" by putting the components in the "right" combination and sequence. So it is discoveries that are copywrighted
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Back on topic...
Noted in a post above, yes, they have to prove evidence of the magic word in order to sue... "DAMAGES". If a film producer company has not made an "official" computer "game" that features the craft in their film...
...based on what could they claim damages to a home made, scratch built and programmed model that is distributed to no profit or gain on a free, no profit distribution platform like Orbiter?
Intellectual property, perhaps??? That's a BIG gray area, interpreted differently in every country. What's its stand internationally? How do you prove damage to "intellectual property"? I ask, and not rhetorically...
That they "could" have made the computer game, but didn't, and you are usurping their merchandise potential? That's even more ridiculous.
In a sense I really feel we need not worry, and are getting a bit paranoid. Or is the worry that OHM and OF might get into trouble for "passively" promoting or being "party" to this distribution?
I think, if I am not mistaken, it was the uploading to OHM of some tracks off a Vangellis album that started the spark for this sort of "awareness". It is a shame. I was never on M6, but looking back into the history, no one seemed worried about the hobby aspect of enthusiastically creating a vessel from a film, which is quite a different kettle of fish from ripping and uploading tracks from an artist.
I have a bit more on this, but the post is long enough already. I place the ideas here for feedback to my own edification, as well as others' consideration. I am no lawyer...
Bye for now, gotta get back to work right now...
It is geting long, what fun hey.
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Forget it.
If I create something, I want to profit out of it, not someone else who I do not even know.
Although I agree, going after a model company for making a modelof your aircraft or such is overkill.
The double edged sword.
You make a good model which you copyright and sell to make a profit.
Someone else copies your model and sells it to to make their own profit.
You would be alright with that would you even though you thought of it first and they piggybacked off your idea to make a living or would you leave them be?
Doing what I do I don't charge any extra for wheels that have already been invented, I just charge a rate to people for my time which is my labour.
I am happy to share my knowledge, aren't you?