I don't understand how you can sue for damages of games that aren't in production and aren't sold by Nintendo anymore that doesn't make any sense. Just greed all the way through.
It's easy: you either believe in private property you are a communist.
If you created something that has a copyright assigned to you, you deserve to OWN the full rights to your own creation. Just like no one should be able to take your house away from you and rent out the rooms without permission, no one should be able to take someone elses property regardless of who it is.
If you don't believein private property, they you are a communist and we know how those economic systms work out.
Then let me rephrase, how can something have its copyright EXPIRED and still sue for damages. And how do they prove they are owed millions in damages? Software isn't private property asshat.
Does software copyright expire? I never thought about that. I only ever thought about art and media. Good point.
I have recently been applying the "do I respect that persons private property rights" as a way to test how to think about problem resolution when dealing with other human beings. It has really been a clarifying filter for me. I know why copyright for art and media is supposed to expire but I am starting to wonder if that makes any sense.
I forgot software is copyrighted, which means in the states it expires after the authors lifetime + 70 years. Chances are those copyrights are not public domain yet.
Still great point.
Sharing files in no way "takes" from anyone.
This is obviously wrong. You have deprived the owner of their ability to:
a) Sell you a license.
b) Deny you a license.
c) Negotiate a transaction that works for everyone.
d) Ignore you altogether.
See what I mean by the private property test? It literally simplifies the rules for all human transactions. It is simple and easy to understand and can be used, as far as I can tell, as a filter for understanding the justice of every single human transaction because all human transactions at just trade of private property.
You can also easily apply the same private property test by asking your self what IF YOU created a great game and great character or software and YOU owned the copyright to all those assets. Do you want to be deprived of your rights to your property and your choices as per above?
Everyone at this point says they woulndn't care, they would GPL or CC the assets anyway and it wouldn't affect them. But, this is wrong too. The reality is that while a bunch of people do open source everything either on principle, as a strategic competitive advantage or just to stay ahead of the economics of private propert crime, if you had a mortgage, a few young mouths to fee or even lets say 10 or 20 employees, all of a sudden you will find that the meaning of a penny CHANGES A LOT.
I know you want the above to be true, it simply isn't.
Note: I have contributed and paid for developmenet of GPL licensed software, I sympathise with your argument.
Bit late, but out of sheer curiosity where would you place someone like me:
I accept property rights, but within limits. No jew landlords hoarding property and renting it out, 2 per family.
With games: if it's over 20 years old and not made available at a reasonable price for its age/condition I'd support alternatives.
Am I now some weird nigger hating, jew hating, far right nationalist commie?
LOL
1) PROPERTY RIGHTS WITHIN LIMIST - Who decides what those limits are? Does the whole country vote? What if there is a town with a 100% uniform set of beleifs about property rights, does the country get to impose it's values on this town? If we don't hold a country wide referendum, does each town get to hold their own referendum and we end up with a patchwork of laws across the country? If we don't hold a referendum, then WHO gets to decide? One generation it may be conservatives, the next it could be communists, the next it could be muslims ... and so on, who exactly decides what the limist on private property rights are?
Basically, private property rights solve the above problem through the following axiom: LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE TO DECIDE FOR THEM SELVES.
NOTE: A better example against my thoughts on the idea of private property would be Blackrock borrowing vast quantities of money from the government and buying up all the land and property bringing in to question your real point, how do we stop monopolists from controling all the land. I don't have an answer to that. I think a portion of the answer probably relies areound the question of national security and the question of national security is downstream of genetics, meaning shitskins and niggers will always act against whites, so there is a throughline here to some interesting correlation.
2) SOFTWARE OVER 20 YEARS OLD - Well that is easy to think about. What if your car is over 20 years old, do people just get to drive it without your permission? What if your house is over 20 years old, do people get to rent out the rooms in it and collect money without your permission?
In a previous post I explained why property rights are property rights for all items slotted into the category because property rights don't deal with what a thing is, property rights resolve the problem of who and how the value of a transaction is calculated.
So, yes, you are a jew hating jew lover because of the unclear thinking about the nature of property rights and how they are a feature of the universe (in my view anyway).
This is the essential problem with your beliefs. Just like communist jews, you believe you know best so you want to impose your rules on how everyone should behave. Those that believe in property rights simply let people freely decide for them selves, you and I have no say in our neighbours business, we only have say in our own business.
// EDIT: Your post is AN AMAZING EXAMPLE of how unclear thinking on this subject matter allows jewish corrosive cultural norms to take over. Because their species spends all it's time trying to trick their god into letting them do things on sunday despite explicit rules in their book not to do those things, they have become experts in analysing society and beliefs at an abstract symbolic level. Because our people don't do this as a day to day practice, our people are weak thinkers about this issues at the root level and easily become pray to jewish manipulation through weak thinking.
I appreciate the post. Once you see this pattern, it is hard to unsee it. I was watching some young Russians vlog about their life in Russia and I can see them making the exact same mistakes their ancestors have been making for the last 2000 years. It's all around us in white culture.
you can believe in private property and not believe in unlimited copyright for megacorporations on products they haven't sold in decades.
You literally cannot. If you believe that you can tell other people what to do with their property, you are a communist.
There is no way around you don't get to tell me what I do with my property.
There is no way around I don't get to tell you what to do with your property.
I believe in free thought, free speech, fredom of association, gun rights, freedom to own what you own without ANYONE telling you what you can do with it.
You are a communist, stop lying to your self.
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