Jun 11
It's actually kind of impressive how the Nintendo Direct voiceovers manage to communicate via inflection alone which specific words in the script have a ™ after them.
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It's actually kind of impressive how the Nintendo Direct voiceovers manage to communicate via inflection alone which specific words in the script have a ™ after them.
Happy World Intellectual Property Day!
Did you know...
Intellectual property and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Copyright exists to protect the profit of the huge corporations with the money to hire lawyers to sue people out of being creative without their permission
Most if not all of the fanfiction, videogame mods, and other derivative creative works you love so much are almost definitely copyright infringement and the only reason they don't (always) get smote from orbit is because no one has gotten a large enough stick up their ass to make the PR backlash worth setting that legal precedent
Artists can, in fact, still make a living from their art without needing a state-enforced monopoly over their work
Patents are one of the most evil concepts anyone has ever thought up. They have set human technological progress back by probably centuries, and are a big part of the reason things like life-saving medications can be so astronomically expensive or new revolutionary technologies can stagnate for decades in the pit of rent-seeking
People will still invent things and create art without intellectual property because the desire to create is a fundamental and universal part of the human experience
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Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
by Amanda Bachman
"Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mouthing the Giant Plagiarism Machine™.
I’d like to remind you that our company policy is pro–Plagiarism Machine™. We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences.
Lately, it feels like some of you aren’t the techno-optimists I took you to be. You’ve been heard uttering slurs like “I’m worried about my job stability” and “I just don’t think it’s positive for humankind,” neither of which sounds remotely optimistic or techno. I’ve even heard shocking reports of teams failing to incorporate plagiarism into their processes, because—I can’t believe I have to repeat this—“it’s not helpful.”
Team, hear me when I say that this is harassment, and it must end. Put yourself in your coworker’s shoes—say, a coworker with really nice, designer footwear, who has invested their personal fortune into the Giant Plagiarism Machine™, along with other intellectual-property-theft futures. Imagine how that coworker (could be anyone!) might feel working alongside such Negative Nancies.
Folks, that’s just not who we are. This is and has always been a company of risk-takers who are unafraid to move fast and break things. Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken.
It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out.
I guess I understand. I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™. Here, I learned that my fellow titans of industry have been re-orging to “leverage plagiarism” and “minimize thought-waste.”
It was at that very same conference that I learned critical thinking takes up 20 percent, sometimes 30 percent, of company time. It’s clear to me that some of you are not focused on the profit potential of outsourcing all of our thinking to a machine capable of remixing thoughts that have come before.
And sure, most of you are hired for your intellectual capabilities. But you don’t need to worry about losing your jobs to the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. As I always say, people are more powerful than plagiarism. (At least until the next economic downturn, during which I will quietly decide that, hey, maybe plagiarism was the dark horse all along.)
The way I see it, we’re family. It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing.
So as we move forward, I want to hear a real turnaround in attitudes, troops!
Because, at the end of the day, you don’t really have a choice."
one of my favorite tiktoks i've ever seen is this one i saw a handful of months ago that said "elon musk couldn't write funeral grey but awsten knight could make a car that explodes"
Is it unethical to use other people's art for PERSONAL use? e.g. printing it out to put on your wall, as a reference for how you picture your OC, etc.
No, that's fine
It's a gray area/certain specific uses are fine or not fine
Yes, that's still unethical
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You might have been asked this already, but any thoughts on the Sony Playstation discontinuing physical discs news?
I feel it's kind of a dilemma since Sony might have justified business reasons, but gamers who prefer physical are, to put it mildly, not amused. There are also things to be said about game ownership and license to play games as well, and I feel that debate can go on forever.
Honestly, I think the issue with physical disc is really treating the symptom, not the actual disease. The main issue we're seeing is that the players aren't buying a game, they're buying a license to use software and the license generally does not cover what happens when the publisher decides to pull the plug. Even if the physical disc had all of the game data on it at launch, it wouldn't stop the same problems with requiring PSN accounts to play the games or locking certain features behind an authenticated account.
In essence, what really needs to happen is that ownership of digital products (beyond games) really needs some kind of legal established set of user rights - (potentially) including the ability to transfer those rights to other people. Maybe that would include certain limitations like only the base version of the game being transferable to another person, but that's the kind of core set of digital consumer rights that should be ironed out.
It goes far beyond physical media and goes to the heart of the matter - what do we actually own? What should we be able to own as people? What's a reasonable scope for the software companies to provide long term? I don't think that it's reasonable to expect software companies to support and offer game data until the heat-death of the universe, so it has to end sometime... so how long and what kind of scope would that be for both consumer and producer to agree is acceptable and sustainable for everyone involved? If we can answer that, it wouldn't matter whether game data is on a physical disc or not.
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Can someone explain something to me?
If someone were to tell you they stole a keychain from the stall of a small creator, we'd call that theft and disapprove of it. Right? (Right??)
So then WHY, when it comes to people stealing digital items from small creators, like refusing to buy a crossstitch pattern and stitching off of the pixel art instead, do people suddenly start with the excuses of "personal use" and "fair use" if it's "not monetized or only gifted".
If we can call it what it is when it concerns a physical item, how is it any different with a digital item?
The artist is selling something. You decide, nah, I'll just take it instead of paying. Congrats, you've stolen from the artist.
i really think waterparks the band should be more popular on tumblr because a song thats called “SELF-SABOTAGE” with a chorus that goes “what the fuck is wrong with me yea yea” well. i thinnk that should. Resonate. with some of you.