Hi Yohandy, Hmmm... it is really a tough choice. If we are going to try and be 100% legal then that means we have to buy copyrights, pay for all music, descriptive vidios, audio books, etc. As a result the quality of life for the average blind person will go down in quality since we would have to give up things like Jim Kitchen's Monopoly, for example, since he didn't license it with Hazbro. We would have to give up free downloads of pirated audio books, dvd movies, etc. I think that is an unrealistic expectation. Assuming every game developer was forced to toe that line, acquire copyrights, etc there would be a lot of games that simply would not exist in accessible format. There would be no Trek 2000, no Shades of Doom, no Packman Talks, no Monopoly, No Yatzi, no NFL, no STFC, no Montezuma's Return, no Sarah, no Bopit, and so on. You see my point. Those games would sease to exist because no blind dev could afford to write them. Especially the free games like Bopit, Monopoly, and Jim's Football. That is unrealistic, and is never going to happen. As for your point about descriptive movies and shows that is a clear example of where the law and reality are in clear conflict with each other. I'd have no problem paying for descriptive movies as long as they are priced the same as normal dvd movies, and they were available. However, sometimes the one and only way to get it is through downloading it from others passing them around who have it. Is there an easy solution for that? I don't know, but it is really frustrating.
Yohandy wrote: > I'd have to disagree. It's exactly the same thing to me. copyright > infringement, copying music, recording tv shows, cracking software. We > shouldn't do that, yet we continue doing it every day. Something else I just > thought of is movies. movies with descriptive tracks are very hard to obtain > in the US, but there are plenty in the UK. so do we share them, or do we > simply deny ourselves the pleasure of watching it? a sighted user can walk > into a store and pick up the movie, but we can't get the same movie with > audio description. so is it wrong to obtain the movie through other means? > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] 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]
