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MC Banhammer Posted:

First offense, warning (unless it’s an insta-ban rule)

That’s interesting, my first ban was for 1 day, for trolling in a contests thread, and I never received a warning for something prior to that.

What are your views on bootlegging?

Samildanach Posted:

What’s funny is, in 1998/1999, when Napster was huge lawsuit news and internet music piracy was a sudden, new watchword, I said “Y’know, record companies should just set up a system by which to buy individual tracks cheap… maybe recommend more based on what you buy.”

I should’ve worked on coding it, instead of figuring that it couldn’t be that good an idea, or they’d be working on it.

But the DRM is what kills it, if I buy a song from the Itunes store, I can only [legally] interact with the audio file in Itunes. You would need to manually remove the DRM, and break the law just to play it on a different media player.

What NPCs woudl you like to see/like to see come back in EP3? ITT: SPOILERS

kraigu Posted:

So work your offending her into the storyline somehow, making no mention of previous status.

Futanari wants another picture Log in to see images! (view post)

What are your views on bootlegging?

GGH Posted:

I support artist. I do not, however, support music industry.

Quoted for truth.

Electric-Turtle-02 Posted:

tl;dr: the industry killed good music, “downloaders are killing the industry”, eventually good music will kill downloaders. but not literally. i mean, it would have to be, like really great (or awful) to do that.

There will always be downloaders, but it’s a matter of listening to music before paying for it.

The advent of Itunes, and being able to pay track-by-track for only $0.99, would be great, without the DRM.

RULES WIKI PAGE

Well, which wiki page on the site rules is better?

1) Bannable Offenses, which leaves out many critical rules that can get you banned.

2) Site Rules, a single page with every rule on it.

I Updated the Wiki Page on Forum Rules

ChilePepino Posted:

3) NO NAKED OR HIGHLY SEXUALIZED PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNDERAGE CHILDREN.

They don’t need to be “highly” sexualized.

Actually yes, a sexualized picture, would just be one endowed with sexual characteristics, and it’s my understanding that if the picture is not “highly” sexualized, it is still acceptable.

What are your views on bootlegging?

Shii Posted:

Except what you’re forgetting is the vast amounts of money record labels sink into artists. When a label finds a new artist, they give them an advance of $1,000,000 or so to make the album, be publicized, etc.

Then they take all the artists’ profits until they’ve recouped their money back. It might sound unfair, but just imagine if the artist isn’t a hit; they lose all that money.

They need to keep their pockets lined because they’re essentially gambling on every single new venture they do.

Plus, without that mbumive funding, the artist would have an extremely, extremely difficult time making it into the national limelight.

And if the best possible scenario is:

1) Record Company gives artist $1,000,000

2) Artist pays back $1,000,000

And there being a huge risk that the artist won’t make it big enough to pay back the label, how does it make it’s money them? Lawsuits against pirates?

What are your views on bootlegging?

Shii Posted:

If some artist paints a new painting, if someone just walked in and took it cuz they wanted it, what kind of argument would “I’m too cheap to pay for it” be?

This is a pretty bad example, a more realistic one would be, an artist paint a beautiful painting. The company that represents the artist, has taken pictures of the work, and are selling these pictures at $15 each, just outside the museum.

If someone who is in fact, too cheap to pay $15 for said picture, walks in, and takes his own picture and leaves, how did the artist lose money?

Rather, the artist could have MADE MORE.

The whole “They lost 51% of revenue” argument should in fact be “We could’ve made 51% more revenue”.

Not only has the artist lost no money, even if every single song was purchased, the artist wouldn’t have made significantly more, due to the mbumive cut that the record industry takes.

5-BP Help me die!

This entire page.

I Updated the Wiki Page on Forum Rules

http://www.forumwarz.com/spoilers/wiki/Site_Rules

I’d like if a mod could check this out, make any necessary corrections/additions, but keep it in the format of having one place with every rule.

And I am still in favor of a “You are posting in a RPG forum whose rules were updated recently! Don’t know why this is important? See here!”

EDIT: I’m having difficulty putting in a table of contents, can someone familiar with the MediaWiki syntax help me out?