Posts by Spandy 6 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2012
I would recommend look at forbidden desert or forbidden island (both by the same designer)
They have the advantage that they are cooperative, so you actually play together against the game, rather than against each other. (and forbidden desert has a cool little plastic airship you build as the game progresses, which kids seem to love)
"if he made every reasonable effort (he did),"
Did he???? My understanding is that when a piece of copyright material was found, he would remove the link to it.
However, on each item there was a load of links, but he would leave all the others active and the file still avaliable.,
If that's true, then that;s really not "making every reasonable effort".
(Before anyone says anything I don;t agree with how the DOJ handeld any of this.. in my opinion both are as bad as each other)
Whilst true, there is a big difference though between photoshopping a celeb for an article on them, or changing a models skin when your advertising the clothes they're waering compared to this case.
When you selling a cream which is meant help skin but the only way to show it's effect is to fake it, then that's taking it to far.
Bit of a bad example with the city mayor.
If we follow the analogy through it would be, could you blame a mayor for crime in a city he built?
- Considering he didn;t bother building a police force
- When outside agencies told him that crime was happening in a buidling he put boards across one of the doors rather than stopping the crime (Aparently when copyright material was pointed out Megaupload only took down the link not the source, knowing that other links existed)
- He paid people for bringing in items to his city even though he knew they were stolen (The alegation that Megaupload paid many of it;s top uploaders even though they knew a lot of the traffic was copyrighted material)
- When asked what the citys prime trade was the mayor took a survey and removed the top lists of drugs and arms sales but kept the nicer sounding ones such as shoe making (Once again, it;s aleged that if you looked at the top downloaded items all copyright material was removed from that list).
So the answer to the major thing is...yes ..he would be to blame.
But then again we could do this for ever, because... real world analogys never match the way the virtual world works.
Also most of my above statements are gained from several articles...which means they might turn out to be a little different from the truth
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