I'd be happy if I could subscribe to discriptive tracks. But even though people pushed for that it never happened. At 09:53 a.m. 7/02/2008, you wrote: >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]
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