but you already tried getting ahold of companies to ask them for permission and they seemed not to care. didn't you?
Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility > Hi Josh, > <Sigh> It is simply because the companies have legal copyrights over the > media, (graphics story and sounds,) of the games they create. Using > that media content could, (I repete could,) land a accessible game > developer in hot water because steeling or using copyrighted game > content without prier consent of the copyright holder is legally > considered a crime in the USA. > You and I can discuss the evils of not having game x accessible, and > that company should either make it accessible or lend us the materials > to make it ourselves, but that is nothing more or less than intilectual > diferences of opinion. If I make a Star Wars I do it at my own personal > risk, but know that I am legally forbidden to do so do to copyright laws. > Hey, it is unfair, but 9 times out of 10 the law would side with the > company than us. As the Rolling Stones once sang, "Sometimes you can't > always get what you want. No you can't always get what you want, but > sometimes you just might find you'll get what you need." > To look it another way consider public safety laws like speeding limits. > A person might believe he has the right to go 80 or 100 miles per hour > down this long stretch of road which seams totally empty when the limit > is 60. Well, person x can argue with the policeman giveing him the > speeding ticket or the judge that is asigning his sentense, but the law > is on their side. No argument I have the right to do so, because I think > I should because the road seamed empty is going to move the police or > courts to not give him his ticket and tell him to go ahead and speed > when there is no traffic around. Bottomline he was speeding in a 60 MPH > speeding zone. > Last year I was at my local court house and got to sit through traffic > court. I heard lots of reasons why person x was speeding, some of them > sounded quite convincing and reasonable to me, but the judge still fined > them, and sent them packing. > Sometimes I felt the law was too harsh, unreasonable, but on the other > hand the law is there to serve and protect as well. Companies need good > copyright laws to keep the compitition from steeling their hard earned > work. However, the same laws sometimes blindly excludes the minority > groups that falls nowhere inbetween the extremes. > > Josh wrote: >> so if we can't get the developers to make their games accessible, why not >> rip the audio from the mainstream games and make our own accessible >> versions >> with audio game maker? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
