Topic: Nintendo Wises Up

[Chozo Ghost]

Don't forget Mass Effect and Fallout.

[Morari]

Just wait until there's a 3D printer in every house. Then we'll be having this argument about downloading the schematics to IKEA furniture pieces.

[Stogi]

Odd that you bring it up, because PirateBay just starting posting torrents for 3D printers.

[nickmitch]

That's actually going to be a REALLY interesting. Will companies sell things for us to print? Or will people just scan things, write the programs and send them out? Is that bootlegging? Counterfeiting?
Interesting question. . .

[oohhboy]

A step in the right direction. On a related note, some levity.




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[Dasmos]

Wow. The RIAA is insane.

[TJ Spyke]

Did you read the entire article? Because the author admits they screwed up, the RIAA did not ask for $72 trillion or any specific amount. Someone made up the number and others started saying the RIAA asked for it. It doesn't matter anyways since the RIAA settled with Limewire for $105 million in May 2011.

[Dasmos]

Did you read it?

So the RIAA is quite correct, they did not ask for a specific number and they did not ask for $72 trillion. However, they did at one point seem to be asking for statutory damages not for each file that was shared but for each copy of each file: multiply that up and you get the $72 trillion figure. So that’s not actually what they asked for although it is implied in one of the detailed legal arguments that they tried to use. And of course this is an old case which has been settled.

So yeah, they didn't specifically outline $72 trillion, but it's what they were suggesting they were entitled to.

[Chozo Ghost]

$72 Trillion is more than the entire planet is worth.

[Stogi]

Yes, we know. It says that in the article.