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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
I disagree. If I steal your intellectual property that means you lose all rights to it because I took them.
If on the other hand I pirate something you have the rights to, I may have stolen that particular royalty payment, but you still own the rights to your work. And because I'm an honest pirate, if you tell me a way to pay you directly, that will guarantee that you get all the money rather than the majority of it going to publishers, ad agencies and other middle men, then I'll pay you. But if most of my payment ends up going to someone other than the person who created the book/song/movie/game, then there's something wrong with that as well.
All of the above is, of course, strictly hypothetical.  |
lol thats kind of why i don't give money to charity. why should i when 90 cents out of every dollar goes to employees and the ceo. however i would give money directly to someone who needed it.
more authors might try what indie game developers do that:hey heres our game for free, pay what you think its worth. of course there would be those who pay nothing but i think a vast majority would give something. you may even end up getting a few bucks from pirates with a guilty conscience.