You're forgetting that we're talking about blind people here. And when we say lose face, it meanns that their reputations would be tarnished, which they would probably be for taking a blind person to ourt. That, I think, is the key point. Sure sighted people went to jail for downloading music, but it might go down less favoriably if Lucas Arts or another ompany sued Tom or Phil, both of whom are blind. I can see the headlines now. "Lucas Arts sues smaltime Game Developer for BBig Money." The article would probably start out with something like, "Thomas Ward, a computer software designer who has been blind since the mid 1990's, was today sued by Lucas Arts for attempting to create a Star Wars game that would be playable by the blind." I personally feeel that if a big name company is to greedy to even consider making its products accessible by the blind then they've got no room to complain if someone else takes that product and makes it more blind friendly, but of course that's not the way the world works. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Kipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copyrighted material
> Hi Bryan, > >> Like I said, could you imagine the headlines? It's one thing >> to sue a rapper >> for using Pacman sounds in one of his songs since he's likely >> to have the >> money, but suing a blind game developer who is just one >> person is far more >> likely to attract unfavorable attention than suing some rich >> rapper dude. > > Yes, but so many single people are being sued for money they don't have. > Think about all the people who use file sharing programs instead of > legally buying the music they like. Also, having to pay money is only > one possibility. I think people also had to go to jail for using or just > downloading copyrighted materials. I believe you could even say writing > audiogames using copyrighted music etc. is even worse than file sharing > - after all when you use a file sharing program you mostly just download > the copyrighted stuff whereas when you write an audiogame you widely > redistribute the copyrighted stuff... > And how could big mainstream companies lose their faces? OK, maybe there > will be some discussions but after the next great video / game or > whatever all will be forgiven and forgotten... > Robin > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
