http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c475 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:12:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c475 You dont want to UPDATE, CHANGE, ADD to...Create it over and over..

BUT, if yo create a GREAT engine, and it can be changed and augmented...WHY remake a product, KEEP ADDING TO IT and people will come.

Look up a game, released long ago, and STILL RUNNING..with alot of added content that the USERS created..Star trek armada 2. TRY to get a CHEAP COPY. last I looked a LEGAL copy on Amazon was around $100.

If the maker had Sold it, placed in Multi user online servers, and ADDED the content for a small fee...HE WOULD STILL BE MAKING MONEY..

But, no...they dropped it on the market, Fixed a few things, and RAN away with the money..to the NEXT project.

EA did a test..and FAILED..battlefield online, went from a NEAT game to CRAP.. NO real new maps, no new content, and CHARGE thru the nose...and you win with Over powered guns.

Why are there a BUNCH of online games from Asia? ALL making money?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c450 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:11:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c450 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/09430123119/eu-commission-sued-refusing-to-reveal-trade-agreement-documents-they-shared-with-lobbyists.shtml#c258 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:11:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/09430123119/eu-commission-sued-refusing-to-reveal-trade-agreement-documents-they-shared-with-lobbyists.shtml#c258 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c440 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:11:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c440 it's exactly the same situation where the blind get no relief from what they have to pay for a license for a TV that they cannot watch.

Actually the do get relief.

They get to pay half price (and since it covers the household there may be people who can watch covered by the license). Also if no one in the household can see then they may as well get a b/w tv and then the license is MUCH cheaper.

So actually these big companies are a lot worse than public organisations like the BBC.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c24 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:09:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c24
Harvey Sivlergate breaks it down.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c432 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:58:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c432 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c450 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:58:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c450 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c423 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:56:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c423 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c417 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:55:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c417 You're claiming you do?

No. Nobody has such perfect information, yet they are able to have an opinion on what copyright should look like. That's why it's such a bullshit excuse from Mike. He clearly has all sorts of deeply-felt opinions about copyright despite not having perfect information. He just pulls out that excuse when anyone challenges him to state a concrete position on copyright policy.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c442 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:55:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c442 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c409 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:55:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c409
However, politicians are working in a mining field where "hurting business" is a way to lose campaign funds and ultimately an election. When Business Europe, a pretty irrelevant forum is actively campaigning, not against the treaty itself, but more against its supporters, politicians start fearing loosing funds and start to rethink their position even when the opinion is a complete non-sequitor. The important thing is how massive the stakeholders are pro- or con-. Since this is a vote for no to the treaty, it will count for politicians even though the message is bullocks.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c430 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:54:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c430
Hmmm.... paying subscriptions are at 500K, down from where they once were, yet their monthly income has doubled.

Since the monthly subscription fees haven't gone up, where's the extra coming from?

Care to comment, or does that break your reality?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c386 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:52:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c386 Yeah, he doesn't have 100% perfect information...

You're claiming you do? Or the politicians that pass copyright legislation? So naive.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c381 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c381
I don't know how you go on with your life, Joe, if this is the most important thing.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c407 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130508/06065623001/new-hope-how-going-free-to-play-brought-redemption-to-star-wars-mmo.shtml#c407 the more players you have, the more value your game has for your players.So very much this. As a trivial example, most of the members of the kinship I was in were free players. I was a subscriber and I also made more than a few micropayments for convenience. The presence of the free players meant more opportunities for all of us to run instances and raids, more crafters to help out kinnies with gear, more people bringing new members into the kinship, more people to have fun with on the kin chat. Win-win-win.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1838 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:44:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1838
"Every creator is also a consumer of content" NO. "content" is a problematic word itself, but if we accept that physical metaphor, the content is NOT consumed here!

Reading and copying etc. do NOT consume things!!!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c378 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:37:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c378
- You post inflammatory remarks with no substance whatsoever, attacking Mike and this community.
- You only answer to comments devoid of substance or cling onto other comments that are also likely to cause a reaction (staying true to the first point, as always).
- Finally, for that extra zest, you even bothered to sign in.

There is only one possible conclusion here.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c20 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c20
but I think a more apt thing is this...

If someone at his home had something that was given to them, even if it was legally bought, from someone else, his house was raided, everything confiscated by some military then his house burned down while he can only watch in horror...

Well, at least he'd know how Kim Dotcom feels.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c356 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c356 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/hollywood-accounting-how-19-million-movie-makes-150-million-still-isnt-profitable.shtml#c1919 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/hollywood-accounting-how-19-million-movie-makes-150-million-still-isnt-profitable.shtml#c1919 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGQP-vQ_OPg]]>