QUOTE(arandomguy @ 07/10/09, 10:40 AM) [snapback]311193[/snapback]
Most everything else there's just not an easy way to tell where anything came from anyway once it's been integrated into your work and they have no legal right to access your source files under (I am pretty sure) absolutely any circumstance, whether they be code or models or shaders.
Yes but you know the fact that you can't get caught doesn't make it legal. Its just that personally i think something has to be done to IP rights, because the way they now works makes it pretty much ipossible to do anything 100% legitimately.
In any case theres several ways one could foreseeably get caught too for example if you use a off site rendering service etc.
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Then if there's a lawsuit the liability moves on to whoever had it up as free if it's not their IP,
So you mean if im stupid and dont know that this peice of XXX is piratted as long as i can prove that then im fine? Err does not work that way (if it did you could never sue children or their parents for those mistakes for downloading music*). Your are at fault no matter what. This is one of the great things id like to change. There shhould be some way of telling between legit and nonlegit. Right now there is none i just cant trust things not made by me, not 100%. Unless i buy form a reputable firm (wich is good if you are reputable but bad if you make a new firm as then it DOES transfer over)
Ok so i know when im definitively not legit (and lets face it im perhaps not the worlds worst equipped persont to reason this out) but theres this huge gray zone in between that need clarification. So the entire system has to be made more reasonable. Its not that Im against IP rights per see, after all i get my living form IP. But its the ownership length, obscureness and that fact that your wrong until proven right, which fights all our sense of justice.
A example:
my dad records birdsongs, he used to have this dat recorder. Now the law changed so that craking copy protection is illegal. So what happens is that my dad owning the copyright can not copy his birdsongs to mp3's without breaking the law, because he is breaking the law to use his own copyright? Who's copyright is stronger sonys right to uncracked protection or my dads right to his copyright? Does this mean that in fact sony now leached over ownership of my dads copyright? Ok so we dont use dat anymore... still the situation is silly. I asked the court to make a ruling of this, as i volunteered to under direct supervision crack the copyright to have some kind of ruling, and punishemt snce i needed theese files. But the lawmakers refused to take this under consideration because they had more things to do (yes also mainly because the situation is so veird that it might break the already silly law structure). I bet they wait till theres money involved. Now this is a problem, ive been told that this is actually a issue to hundreds of people taht untill somebody actually applies the law over here they wont know whats right and whats wrong. And that's just plain Insane.
All of this begs the question? If deducing when im legit is impossible then why should i have problems with doing the illegal the end result might be the same. And indeed in all but movies and music its very cler that this problem causes a lot of unnecceserly illegal copying because the difference between legal and not legal is so diffuse.
*ok so in fact, over here it works like this. If it doesnt have reasonable copy protection (no idea what that is, never found anything i couldn't copy easily, even the dat is easy to copy just read the output of the sound cards dsp chip) then copying it to your own use is fine, only the one sharing is at fault.