![]() Of course that leaves the system open to exploit, but I personally never use ad blockers. If someone didn't have access to wifi, we weren't receiving the ad revenue regardless, so we didn't want to "punish" them. But in these situations we like to sort of err to the benefit of the user. Of course following that, we could simply turn off the ad feature if no internet connection is detected. Initially I did it because the plugin I was using didn't have much support for confirmation of the ad being viewed- as in, I could deploy the ad but didn't know for sure if the full thing had been watched. ![]() The community here is generally very helpful and responsive, so I'd invite you to give it another shot before leaving. I suspect people may be downvoting it just so that others don't see it and decide to exploit it themselves. Hi DisgorgeX, thanks for wanting to bring this to our attention. Just look at YouTube's copyright enforcement, Content ID is as broken as the system it protects! Donating money to the artist who made the thing should ideally be like tipping a waiter, you don't have to, but it is a good idea to. The best solution to this problem in my opinion is a universal basic income that prevents serious poverty, and a return to the patronage system (back then only rich people could fund art, which led to limitations about what they could say, but now with crowdfunding (ex: KickStarter) things are different. In order to ensure their broken business model works, they put in DRM, which sucks and gets broken quickly anyway. Just look at the "Triple AAA" video game publishers, or Hollywood.Ĭopyright doesn't help the artists, it helps the companies. They usually don't care about artistic expression, just profits. They will usually do the same simple thing over and over again, with ever higher amounts of polish. ![]() In addition, businesses have a hard time making art because they were designed for maximum efficiency, maximum profit, not maximum quality. The point is that the business model for most commercial art isn't a particularly viable one anymore. Why would would I, the relatively reasonable consumer, buy a game on Stream or Origin when I could just download it from BitTorrent for free? Why would I pay for cable TV with all of it's ads, when I could get an ad blocker, go on a website, and stream it to my computer for free? Well, because I want to compensate the creators (or to avoid infecting my computer with malware), but that isn't the point! I believe that if the software is paid for and it's on your system you own it, no matter what the terms of service are. ![]() Why do you think that the legal fiction of software licensing exists? It's so they can justify putting in DRM to limit your ownership rights so that they can prevent you from copying it so that they can make money. Peer to Peer sharing is an existential threat to the software and entertainment industries. ![]() In fact, software in general has that problem. And capitalism was built around the idea of finite supply. With how easy it is to endlessly duplicate software as much as you want this day and age, there is essentially unlimited supply. I'm not against Artists making a living with their art, nor is this me arguing that I deserve to consume art without compensating the creators (which would be pretty spoiled) but even if you leave the ridiculous copyright lengths (caused by businesses lobbying, most notably Disney (the influences of the people who own the corporations on countries law is a whole other problem)) out of the picture you still get a system that isn't well designed for this day and age. The essential reasoning behind copyright is that people need an economic reward in order to make art, which isn't true and can be proven just by looking at DevientArt or the unpaid Steam mods page. I could rail all day about the system of copyright and DRM.ĭisclaimer: I never paid for in game microtransactions, but I didn't buy the option to turn off ads and sat through hundreds of them while dungeon running and to get various rewards (you get very good of X-ing out of ads before they even start) Quite noble compared to Diablo 3's always online DRM. I think Afro-Ninja put that in to allow people without internet connections to still be able to get those rewards. ![]()
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