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Cent :nafo: (npub1yda…lmlr) >GUYS REMEMBER PIRACY IS FREE
For works like videos and images, sharing such information in a format that can be displayed in free software (or converting it so it does), indeed allows that information to be displayed freely, even you do end up infringing copyright law.
Proprietary games in object code form is just as proprietary as the original, even if you unauthorized copy it.
[migrated to blacksky.co.uk] (npub1srh…8g90) >it doesn't even count as piracy if it's an old game
Copyright terms are now pretty much forever, except of a 20 year extension installment plan (despite how unlimited copyright terms are clearly unconstitutional in the USA).
Old games are therefore under pretty much the same copyright restrictions as newer games, therefore unauthorized copying of such games may be copyright infringements.
Some old games are abandoned by their publishers, or have publishers that don't exist anymore and usually you can get away with unauthorized copying on abandon-ware (but not always).
cassidyclown (npub1zhj…kmgu) >'piracy' used to mean selling intellectual property you have no rights to for profit
You can't help but to rewrite history can you?
If I remember correctly, it was originally a term used by authors to refer to publisher that were ripping them off by publishing their books overseas without paying them anything (or nearly nothing) despite their huge profits.
Publishers are surprise, surprise, still doing similar things, except they have more recently turned the idea on its head, equating sharing information non-commercially with your neighbors to attacking a ship and claiming that the authors are starving from the "lost sales" (that weren't going to happen anyway), despite how the authors aren't going to see a cent (or next to nothing) from the huge sales anyway.
"Intellectual property" is corporate propaganda for their imaginary property - please consider ending the cycle of confusion: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr
For works like videos and images, sharing such information in a format that can be displayed in free software (or converting it so it does), indeed allows that information to be displayed freely, even you do end up infringing copyright law.
Proprietary games in object code form is just as proprietary as the original, even if you unauthorized copy it.
[migrated to blacksky.co.uk] (npub1srh…8g90) >it doesn't even count as piracy if it's an old game
Copyright terms are now pretty much forever, except of a 20 year extension installment plan (despite how unlimited copyright terms are clearly unconstitutional in the USA).
Old games are therefore under pretty much the same copyright restrictions as newer games, therefore unauthorized copying of such games may be copyright infringements.
Some old games are abandoned by their publishers, or have publishers that don't exist anymore and usually you can get away with unauthorized copying on abandon-ware (but not always).
cassidyclown (npub1zhj…kmgu) >'piracy' used to mean selling intellectual property you have no rights to for profit
You can't help but to rewrite history can you?
If I remember correctly, it was originally a term used by authors to refer to publisher that were ripping them off by publishing their books overseas without paying them anything (or nearly nothing) despite their huge profits.
Publishers are surprise, surprise, still doing similar things, except they have more recently turned the idea on its head, equating sharing information non-commercially with your neighbors to attacking a ship and claiming that the authors are starving from the "lost sales" (that weren't going to happen anyway), despite how the authors aren't going to see a cent (or next to nothing) from the huge sales anyway.
"Intellectual property" is corporate propaganda for their imaginary property - please consider ending the cycle of confusion: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr