They are a part of the ESA, but have taken no official side.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28898
Capcom attempted to clear up misconceptions regarding their support of SOPA in a forum thread on their site.
Earlier this week, a Capcom spokesperson released a statement regarding SOPA, claiming "The ESA represents us on these matters". The ESA, a group comprised of many game developers including Capcom, remained on a list of supporters of SOPA. However, Capcom now explains that despite the ESA representing them on the legislation, they do not have a stance on the bill.
Senior Vice-President Christian Svensson called earlier reports on their stance "bad journalism." Svensson went on to explain that they are a game making company, not legislators, and not planning to actually take a side. He also sought to allay fears that individuals streaming and uploading videos of their games would be targeted if the legislation passes.
SOPA, short for Stop Online Piracy Act, is a controversial piece of US legislation that would grant copyright holders and law enforcement a greater ability to fight online piracy and counterfeiting. Critics worry that the bill would, among other things, curtail free speech and the operation of legitimate online services.
I think "the public" refers to average joes. Obviously you support SOPA, but you are in the minority and I would guess a very small minority at that. Democracy is supposed to be about the interests of the people, not the interests of corporations. So I don't really care that you can produce a list of mega-corps who back the bill. They aren't the people.
Piracy sucks and it should be illegal. But it is illegal... I don't think anything more needs to be done than that. Passing new draconian laws which infringe on freedom may curtail some piracy, but nothing will ever eradicate it entirely. It will always be around, just like how there will always be rape and murder and every other bad crime no matter what anyone does. That doesn't mean you shouldn't fight these things, but lawmakers need to realize no amount of legislation will ever rid the world of evil. As a matter of fact, legislation like SOPA only results in more evil in the world... just in a different way.
"Piracy" hasn't created some dearth of content. There's more content than ever.
You keep bringing up SOPA - which, I guess, is appropriate, since this is a SOPA thread... However, as I said, I don't think SOPA is a good bill.
That said, I also don't think SOPA justifies the mentality shown in this (and other) SOPA threads where it's "screw the people who run the corporations. screw the people who make this entertainment. it's all worthless, so we can take it and not compensate them and they owe us for spending our time even watching/listening/playing it.""Piracy" hasn't created some dearth of content. There's more content than ever.
There's more content than ever, but the overall quality of it has gone downhill.
I'm curious as to how history will judge the "artistic" values of this era. Will Simon Cowell be the Da Vinci of our time?
One commonly used argument pirates use for old NES games is that they are no longer commercially available, which is often true. A lot of them are now available on Virtual Console, but not every game is. Why are they not?A lot of them are because the publishers don't have the rights to release the games anymore because they don't own the license anymore. Or it's just not worth it financially to release some of the more obscure games.
"Piracy" hasn't created some dearth of content. There's more content than ever.
There's more content than ever, but the overall quality of it has gone downhill.
I'm curious as to how history will judge the "artistic" values of this era. Will Simon Cowell be the Da Vinci of our time?
So what can be done about piracy? Well, one thing that could be done is content owners could make more of an effort to ensure their products are always commercially available in all markets.
And look at the Xenoblade Chronicles game for the Wii which was on the list of the top 10 pirated games of the year.
It's no excuse for piracy, but it does seem like it would be in the best interests of everyone to do it that way. In the real world, piracy is always going to be a thing, and one of the best ways to minimize it is to make the legal route as easy and painless as possible. See: iTunes, Steam, etc.
Album sales may be down in part because it is now possible to digitally purchase and download only the individual songs that the customer is interested in, as opposed to the other "filler" that they aren't.
Album sales may be down in part because it is now possible to digitally purchase and download only the individual songs that the customer is interested in, as opposed to the other "filler" that they aren't.
Which means A.) total sales are down (which they are) and B.) you're not experiencing the artist's entire vision - and for those who claim to be in it for the artist, you should be experiencing the entire work of said artist. You wouldn't just cut the smile out of the Mona Lisa, would you?
And UB if you want Kasey Chambers new album I can give it to you, buddy. My mum got it as an unwanted gift hover Christmas.I guess that's the advantage of actually being from Australia, eh? :D
Unless we are talking about concept albums, which very few artists other than Pink Floyd have done
If you're looking more at the musicians that see themselves as artists, then they're likely to give much more thought in how the album flows together to become one piece of art.
So while I would be reading their bios and reviews of their albums it would namedrop some act that inspired them or was one of their peers.
I think it's a joke that professional sports stadiums are paid for primarily by taxpayers, the owners are mostly billionaires, the players are paid insane amounts, yet the public has to pay for their place to play in most markets because if the city/state won't pay for it they'll move to another city that will. But that's a whole separate discussion than piracy.
More and more stadiums are being funded by the teams themselves instead of the localities. And stadiums get funded by taxpayers because they, and the teams they house, bring a lot of money into local economies. Having pro sports teams has a lot of benefits for a city, and they make up the money they put into the stadiums in the long run, and then some.
