MPAA with vengence

[Uzumaki Naruto]

Link

I like that catch phrase

[Carter]

Welcome to last week, Newshound!

Bit-torrent is like an invisible Godzilla.

EDIT: Also, instead of just acting like a bitchola this time out, I'm going to link to Copyleft in order to actually add some insight to the matter at hand.

This time...

[Uzumaki Naruto]

Welcome to last week, Newshound!

Bit-torrent is like an invisible Godzilla.

EDIT: Also, instead of just acting like a bitchola this time out, I'm going to link to Copyleft in order to actually add some insight to the matter at hand.

This time...

It's old? Ummm.....Yo mama!

[MC Fumunda]

HOAX! swangin' balls.

[DrVictorVonDoom]

Wow, that's pretty horrible.

[MC Fumunda]

Or really smart.

Depends how you look at it.

Color me jealous.

[Inkthinker]

... I'm going to link to Copyleft in order to actually add some insight to the matter at hand.

Admittedly I haven't read the whole thing there, but that seems a little odd to me... why would a creator want to "copyleft" their work?

[NickRocks]

Color me jealous.

at first i thought you said color me jesus...oh well

*puts my jesus colored crayon away*

[Vargas Prime]

Admittedly I haven't read the whole thing there, but that seems a little odd to me... why would a creator want to "copyleft" their work?

One of the most important reasons creators or authors might want to make copyleft applicable to their work is that in so doing they hope to create the most favourable conditions for a wide range of people to feel invited to contribute improvements and/or elaborations to this work, in a continuing process.

Use of copyleft has a strong ideological connotation for many. This ideological debate is avoided, however, by the founder of what is regarded as the most successful roll-out of copyleft in a single product, Linus Torvalds, who considers the practical side of the GNU GPL copyleft license he applied to Linux software to be paramount (see also section on Commercial exploitation of copylefted creations below).

In an interview published August 18, 2004 in Business Week, Linus Torvalds draws the attention to the fact that the traditional path towards progress in science offers an approach without impediments for spreading knowledge (i.e., when using the scientific method): always building further on what others have discovered before, not being hampered by secrecy surrounding prior research results. This means that the definition above not only applies to a work as "human creation," but that "human discovery" or "human invention" can be included in a copyleft approach as well.

I guess there's an argument to be made for the open invitation by creators to critique or improve upon their work. Granted, the natural instinct is going to be to protect and defend that work against tampering or theft, but approaching something with a "welcome all" attitude can be beneficial.

Look at Half Life. The game enjoyed such a huge following and long-standing popularity because Valve made the game so developer-friendly. It was so easy to create modifications and add-ons to the Half Life engine, that people were playing the game to exhaustion for 6 years, waiting for the sequel.

Anyway, I guess something can be said about being able to release a product to an audience and saying "have at it," hoping that it will gradually form this sort of community of people who are all willing to give and take to make the original even better.