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coliss
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« Reply #270 on: 2006 November 14, 12:30:26 »
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laylei, I like your avatar. :lol:
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« Reply #271 on: 2006 November 14, 19:37:11 »
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laylei, I like your avatar. :lol:


I second the motion.
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« Reply #272 on: 2006 November 14, 19:45:07 »
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Right.

Sometimes I write stuff.  You know, like stories.  Sometimes poetry, but that's really for if I don't want to make a lot of sense and pretend I'm cool.  Sometimes I let people read them.

Because I put so much ohmygodmyfingersfelloffworkingonthis effort into it, I should charge the three or four people that actually read it.

Damn, I knew I was missing something.  Time to harass my friends and get them to cough up the cash...  And you know, I put a lot of work into my homework.  Teachers need to pay me, and none of this "your pay is a good grade" shtick.


Ah, but you know, if your writing is good enough that people would want to pay to read it, then you're perfectly within your rights to charge for it.  As for your teachers, your work in class is required to pass, and I doubt your teachers really care one way or another if you do the work or not (at least if you're in college) so no skin off their nose if you don't do the work - the work's of value to you, not them ;-)

Anywho - I really need to go through this whole thread back to front before I comment.  I prolly put my foot in my mouth by commenting on something out of context  :oops:
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« Reply #273 on: 2006 November 14, 22:55:39 »
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I don't see myself having a career in writing.  I do it as a hobby, and as such, I don't think it right to charge people if they want to see what I churn out for a hobby.
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« Reply #274 on: 2006 November 15, 00:43:30 »
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Did she change her MySpace? :lol:

edit Aw... nevermind. It was MySpace.
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« Reply #275 on: 2006 November 15, 00:57:17 »
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laylei, I like your avatar. :lol:


I second the motion.


Hehe, thanks. It was made by fourthage over on LJ.
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« Reply #276 on: 2006 November 15, 04:51:04 »
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Ah, but you know, if your writing is good enough that people would want to pay to read it, then you're perfectly within your rights to charge for it.


Charging for sims content is more along the lines of charging for fanfic.  You're asking people to pay you money for something that you infringed copyright by claiming as your own.

And anyone who tries to charge for work in the fanfic community?  Is taken down summarily.  It's a self-regulating system.  It's sort of the mantra that in order for fanfic to survive, it has to be free.
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« Reply #277 on: 2006 November 15, 05:12:25 »
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I have a friend who occasionally plays Sims 2, but he never subscribes to pay sites[because he's not interested in the content.]. Anyway, we were debating on 'pay sites and moral intelligence' or something along those lines. He described it as follows;

"They're like musicians. Musicians- they make music off of instruments they didn't personally build and they sell that music. Is it fair? Maybe, maybe not. But they have to make a living somehow, just like everybody else."

But I personally have to agree with:

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Charging for sims content is more along the lines of charging for fanfic. You're asking people to pay you money for something that you infringed copyright by claiming as your own.


It's just a fricking[I don't know if I'm allowed to actually curse, haha] game, you know? The way that the Retail Sims owner reacted to PMBD kind of struck me as...well.. she's batshit[again, don't know if I'm allowed to curse] crazy. Obsessive, even.

Sorry if I just repeated something someone else has said, but I've been reading a bunch of the other threads on the forum[almost all of them, in fact] and haven't gotten to reading ALL of this one quite yet..
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« Reply #278 on: 2006 November 15, 05:23:14 »
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You want to say the fuck word, anoramic?  You may say the fuck word.  Pirates curse.

Well, except those fancy pirates with the very large hats.
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« Reply #279 on: 2006 November 15, 05:25:27 »
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You want to say the fuck word, anoramic?  You may say the fuck word.  Pirates curse.

Well, except those fancy pirates with the very large hats.


Scurvy likes large hats.  Shocked
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« Reply #280 on: 2006 November 15, 05:27:43 »
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Musicians..?
More like karaoke singers.
They didn't compose the catchy tunes, EA did! :lol:
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« Reply #281 on: 2006 November 15, 05:37:54 »
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Yeah, they're more like a cover band.
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« Reply #282 on: 2006 November 15, 05:39:22 »
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Musicians..?
More like karaoke singers.
They didn't compose the catchy tunes, EA did!


Haha! I'm going to use that on him next time the subject comes up. If you don't mind, of course. ^_~

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You want to say the fuck word, anoramic? You may say the fuck word. Pirates curse.

Well, except those fancy pirates with the very large hats.


I like looking at large hats rather than wearing them. But I must say I'm glad I can curse; it's a habit that I don't care to get rid of. I'm a pirate at heart!
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« Reply #283 on: 2006 November 15, 06:42:08 »
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Go ahead, I love to share! :lol:
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« Reply #284 on: 2006 November 15, 06:44:26 »
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But you'd have to be careful about the cursing. You don't wanna sound like a drunken sailor, right?
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