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Originally Posted by hentayextra
I got the big message a little while back. This thread has become more about their argument rather than my post. its a shame to lock it, cant u transfer it to that section.
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If that's what needs to happen for the REAL questions to be answered, then I say "go for it". I just find it disheartening that "everyone" seems to believe that international copyright law overrides domestic copyright law, yet "they" don't bother to provide examples that don't trace back to domestic violations. If hundreds of users are legally in the wrong here, is it really such a bad idea to prove it? Would the community implode if proper guidelines were brought into compliance?
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
I never put much thought into morals about pirating, until recently. I mean get a few music files and soundtracks from the internet, and some other stuff.
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That's STILL domestic piracy, and I'm not going to lie and say that I haven't been down that particular road a few hundred times.
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
The only time when I think its gone too far when they hacked ps3, xbox 360, wii, ds and the psp.
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Hai, I'm the Sony EULA. Plz ignore XCP bcuz we noe wut's best 4 u. KTHXBAI!
My point remains - this is the same kind of attitude that kept Linux down and Mac out of the marketplace, because gods only know how Wintel is the only option out there. Open your mind a bit - cracking proprietary encryption on a domestic product
isn't piracy in and of itself, though it "violates" the DMCA (though even that has an established loophole that's big enough to drive a university research department through).
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
As for anime subs online and manga im not so sure. If there wasnt subs online or manga then there wouldnt have been bothered to buy or look into it. Because since I live in England that kind of stuff is rare. So I'm very glad I watched it online when I first did I saw a lot of amazing stuff, also with anime and manga there r thousands and thousands of series there is no way u would have the time and money to explore them properly.
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Domestic piracy. International material. Does international copyright control, and if so, how?
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
So what I do is that, when I look online and watch these animes if I find something really good Like Code Geass, I buy the cd's and some manga. I know its not much but im not going to spend a fortune exploring all the different anime's and mangas there is just too much. Reviews and rankings barely mean anything u either like it or u dont.
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Honestly, I just find it to be a bit much when people freak out over anything longer than a thirty-second trailer. What's wrong with people having a better idea of what they're purchasing, assuming they're not just swiping the whole flick?
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
With games its different, there are a lot of games out there but they arnt too expensive and there are loads of gameplay footage online and reviews to help choose.
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Technically, that material is tolerated, because it generally promotes good press coverage. Technically, anything you create in that "world" constitutes derivative works, though that can - and does - vary by jurisdiction.
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Originally Posted by hentayextra
with BE stories, fetish stuff and talyor made clips there are quite a bit of free previews.
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...and few of those are as quality as Taylor's material. Honestly, it's all fine and good to pick on EC for supplying international material to a domestic market in violation of its copyright, but ask yourself this - would we even
know about half the items were it not for his efforts and samples? Some of those artists are so protective of their "art" that they won't allow previews on their own sites, so should we just blindly trust that our purchases won't wind up with shitting dick-nipples all over the screen? That's the extreme opposite, but don't think it doesn't happen.