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  1. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    iTunes is actually great for this, it will give you between 30 seconds and 1 minute to preview, for every song they have, 100% free of charge :) The fact that iTunes went from the most draconian DRM-laden pile of pish to being a completely open system that lets you copy the files and play your...
  2. Belazor et Britannia

    SOTW 96 Voting.

    #1 for me. I think the font is really snazzy, and the character as a divide between the lush garden and the blackness I'm sure has a certain level of symbolism that goes above my head :P As for #2 , I don't really get it... Maybe it's because I don't watch fut bol? If I'm honest, I don't even...
  3. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    What my point was that I believe there is a clear distinction between IP theft (which only applies to trade secrets, as per the Wiki entry) and copyright infringement. The reason why there is a difference is, like I said before, it's impossible to measure the loss of income as a result of...
  4. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    I think I was a bit unclear; what I meant was that when responding to pirates, we intentionally use incorrect language (calling it "theft" vs. calling it "copyright infringement") because "theft" is more threatening than "copyright infringement". In other words, even though both myself and...
  5. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    i completely agree, and I never intended to make it sound otherwise. of course, but I noticed that there were some misconceptions regarding the topic at hand and so I wanted to see if I could correct it, that's all :) I disagree with this bit, I think it's important to maintain a distinction...
  6. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    Just because it isn't theft, doesn't mean it's not illegal, I believe I made that quite clear. It's very much illegal, and immoral, but it's not theft. As I've tried to say in previous posts, how much money is lost to piracy is impossible to calculate. Nobody can argue that everyone that...
  7. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    If you notice this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement it says the Supreme Court ruled that not all instances of copyright infringement results in commercial loss and therefore does not easily equal theft. Can we stop pretending all cases of piracy is theft now? Cool. No...
  8. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    No, it isn't. IP theft specifically refers to trade secrets, see your own page for the source. IP theft is considered theft because, unlike a game/movie/ebook/music track, someone copying this data causes measurable damages. If someone copies a product and releases it, any sales from that...
  9. Belazor et Britannia

    Illegal Downloading

    Mild bump, but I just found this thread and wanted to weigh in. Contrary to popular belief, piracy isn't theft. The definition of theft is "taking with the intent to deprive", meaning that you are depriving the original owner of the item in question. A digital copy of a digital item is, by...
  10. Belazor et Britannia

    Updates Upgrade to VBulletin 4.2

    While I agree that there should be an option, I'd say (what could be compressed into) a single line of code constitutes as "simple" ;) I only posted because you came off as someone who knows a little something about vBulletin, and I thought the code snippet might help you out if you wanted to...
  11. Belazor et Britannia

    Updates Upgrade to VBulletin 4.2

    It's either or, not both :) member_complete plugin: if ($blocks['visitor_messaging']) { $selected_tab = !$selected_tab ? 'visitor_messaging' : $selected_tab; } sorts it out with no template edits.
  12. Belazor et Britannia

    A Little Survey!

    Real name: Fillip What is your hair colour: Dirty blonde What colour are your eyes: Blue What day of the week were you born: Sunday, and it was pissing down that day as well. Shoe size: 9 (UK), 44 (EU) Height: 6'2" / 187cm Favourite sleep wear: Boxers, or commando Favourite casual wear: 100%...
  13. Belazor et Britannia

    Happy Birthday, Kira

    Here is my gift for the birthday girl: :wacky: I hope you have a good birthday ^_^
  14. Belazor et Britannia

    Happy Birthday, Galadín!

    I may or may not have pre-written it like 15 minutes before :wacky: Wouldn't have it any other way ;)
  15. Belazor et Britannia

    Happy Birthday, Galadín!

    Happy birthday to the prettiest girl on the forum! :cake: I hope you'll having an amazing day and that you're not doing something I wouldn't! ...oh, well... something normal people wouldn't, then. :wacky: Here is your birthday present: :cactaur: I jest, I kid! Take this instead: :moogle...
  16. Belazor et Britannia

    Owning a business

    Hardly, our official forums has literally all of our mods installed, to the point where we had to employ a fancy trick in order to make sure only the useful mods are available on the main website, whereas the others can be loaded by going to a different domain (that still points to the same...
  17. Belazor et Britannia

    Owning a business

    *points to his signature and pretty much everything else on this forum* :wacky: We have an accountant, so taxes are pretty much a non-issue, beyond importing our receipts into our accounting software every 3 months and re-checking our figures once a year. We roughly estimate how the numbers...
  18. Belazor et Britannia

    Happy Birthday Shace!

    I'm going to poop all over your party and fix the title :mokken: Happy Birthday, Shace Cums :britt:
  19. Belazor et Britannia

    Who is DragonWuss!? :rage:

    Who is DragonWuss!? :rage:
  20. Belazor et Britannia

    Candy Canes For All 2013!

    Galadín - A.K.A. "little Galadín" - Really sweet and amazing person :inlove: She can always be trusted to ramble on about something, add random letters to common words or emasculate me with her graphics or writing skills :wacky: When I finish taking over the world with my code, I will instate...
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