Quote:Whatever AP code does you make it sound like something you definitely do not want activated.
Much easier and cheaper to pay with money.
Quote:Okay, I do not pirate your subs in any way, but I do stuff that is against the AP code all the time, and if the AP code educates then how will my subconscious know to ignore AP code for certain things?
The code points to my products.
Quote:I'm not like some crazy thief but like I said I will listen to free audio books on youtube, my ipod is FILLED with music and audiobooks I haven't paid for and never will pay for, I'll borrow a movie from a friend and watch it without them being there too etc etc. I do sh*t all the time that the ap code would consider piracy that is why I am worried about it.
And that is also why I didn't try to make it work for all piracy. I can't possibly know everything everyone could possibly do, and what the right response is. And, it's not really my place to get into that. I'm just interested in keeping my business going so I can develop the stuff that will make me wealthy enough to achieve my end goals.
Quote:Just because you sell subliminal audio doesn't make it okay to add this ap code. Do you think all movies and cd's and audio books ect ect should also add subliminal ap codes? Just because what you're selling is subliminal in the first place doesn't make it okay. It's probably not even legal to do in the first place.
Actually, it makes it perfectly okay for me to do whatever I want. It is, after all, my intellectual property. What exactly I do with that is what determines whether or not I succeed or fail. If I am irresponsible with it, I will fail.
Whether or not everything should have it is not my concern. I'm interested in getting paid for my own works. Frankly, I am shocked at how entitled you guys seem to think you are to benefit from the work of others without reasonable recompense.
And... yes... it's legal for me to put into my intellectual property. If you don't agree, it's also legal for you not to buy it. But stealing it is not okay, and not legal.
Quote:What happens if Kanye West or something comes out with a CD and it has AP code on every song or something that's *****d up nobody would ever do that, and if Kanye West did do that people would prob freak out way more than I am.
You never know. Maybe in the future I'll become a billionaire writing AP subs for musicians... now wouldn't that be funny. If you don't break the law, you don't have to worry about the consequences, do you?
Quote:People pirate sh*t all the time it's just part of the business. When I'm spending money I shouldn't have to have these extra unknown messages that I do not want in my brain. That's not what I'm paying for.
So let's educate you a bit here. Your logic is:
Everyone does it, therefore, it's okay.
If we assume "it" can be a variable X, and we start replacing "piracy" with other values, what happens?
Applying the same logic, it is now alright for ANYONE to do ANYTHING, as long as enough people do it. So thanks, Justin, it's now okay for me to kill you if I want to, seeing as how killing is something "everyone does" when they eat something that had to die for them to eat it.
Obviously, you are committing a logical fallacy. If X is "murder", then murder is okay as long as enough people do it? Rape? Racism? Sexism? Discrimination? Where do we stop?
Right and wrong are not defined by the percentage of the population acting in a certain way. It is never "right" to commit murder. Nor rape. And if I started stealing from you, since piracy is rampant, by your own logic that is perfectly okay! So are you saying that I should figure out where you live and steal your stuff because according to your logic errors, all theft is okay because enough people steal worldwide?
Piracy is not okay. It is only a part of doing business because it's so hard to do something meaningful about. But I'm doing something meaningful about it. And that bothers you because... well... you're apparently in the wrong, and you know it. Maybe not with my stuff, but by your own words, with other stuff.
As for the AP code not being what you're paying for, actually it is. You see it's like this. Thanks to people stealing my stuff, I had three options:
- Stop making my subs.
- Increase prices to compensate.
- Create some way to deter and defer the effects of piracy.
What AP code does is gets people to pay for what they would otherwise have stolen. And that means we don't have to raise prices to compensate for piracy. And so, you're paying me, in part to keep the product price at it's current level with the AP code. See how that works? You pay me, and I work to please you. Even if you don't readily realize that's what I'm doing.
Quote:If your subs sucked I wouldn't worry about it but these subs definitely are powerful so I'm extra cautious about what exactly is going into my brain. I don't see how ap code would only affect me for your subs and nothing else which is why I don't feel comfy running these subs without even knowing what the AP code is so I can decide for myself if it's something I'm comfortable with programming deeply into my brain.
If my subs sucked, who would pirate them? Why would I have had to invent AP code? Trust me, I didn't care to spend the time on it, but it was necessary because my subs work and because they work, they have value. And since they have value, someone's going to try to get something for nothing, and... well, you see where this is going.
The AP code does two things: It educates you as to what constitutes piracy of my subs, and why it is a negative thing to pirate them. And, if you do it anyway, it transfers payment from money to something else until you deactivate it by undoing what you did to activate it.
That transference of something else, that only activates when you pirate my stuff. But knowledge is power, my friend. I don't decide what you do with that education I'm giving you aside from referring to my subs. In your case, I;d say it's opened your eyes a little in other directions.
Quote:Maybe I'm trippin over nothing, I have no idea if it's something I should worry about or not.
You just pay for what you get that is my intellectual property, and we're all good. The rest of what you do is up to your conscience, not mine.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!