12-30-2015, 12:13 PM
(12-30-2015, 11:50 AM)chaosvrgn Wrote: Yea, for what it's worth, I think the "energy harvesting" statement sounds much more sinister than it really is. People are taking it literally -- as if we're going to become batteries ala The Matrix and Shannon's gonna absorb all that energy and become Super Shannon or some mess.
I saw it more like this: Maybe you'll pick up an extra job to pay for the sub you pirated, or even to buy more in the future. Or, if you have some talent, you'll be encouraged to contact Shannon and offer those services for free. Here's where my problem comes in:
What exactly determines "fair value?"
Who determines "fair value?"
And if "fair value" is no longer specified, do you really think it's ethical to impose AP code on a pirate in perpetuity?
There have been times in my life where I was paid upwards of $150/hr for my marketing services and I'd easily make $5-6k in a few days. Sex Magnet, for example, is $500. Theoretically, if I were a pirate, and if I were to devote those marketing skills to IML, the debt would be paid off fairly quickly. However, I doubt the AP code is that sophisticated, so I could be giving far more value than what I'm receiving. That's not a fair exchange at all. In fact, it sounds more like punishment. Unless the AP Code has an expiration clause OTHER than paying for the sub -- i.e. when you stop using the subliminal, the code terminates.
Again, I don't see why the AP code simply doesn't turn off the sub's effects and/or coerce them into buying the sub and/or coerce the pirate to tell people about how great IML is. It's so much more easier and cleaner if it went this way -- ESPECIALLY if you made it very clear what the AP code did. And THEN direct people to the free subs. Maybe even make an "Alpha Male Lite" sub, designed to put the person in a dominant state quickly so they'll immediately know IML is the real deal.
I do wonder... (and I sincerely hope this isn't true) that the REAL reason IML won't make AP code turn off the sub's effects is because Shannon is aware that on all code executes (on some level) even when directed otherwise -- as we've seen with women being affected by AM and vice-versa. That means we're all being affected by AP code, even if we're legit.
There are other ways to handle this situation, one that addresses all the issues. And man, it's really becoming quite the PR clusterfart.
Yea that's the thing, I don't think it's humanly possible to have an apcode and have it not affect every single person that uses the sub on some level whether they paid for it fair and square or not.
If I buy a sub, why do I have programming running through my head that is made for someone who would pirate the sub?
How could that programming possibly only affect the pirater and not affect me?
There's lots of businesses that make their money selling mp3's or other digital products that could easily be copied and shared, and all of them deal with piracy the way the law has it set up, none of them do some weird sh*t and put matters into their own hands.
When a producer see's a copyright infringement he can file a complaint and then the situation gets dealt with.
These subs really should be government regulated or something, like some sort of government official should have to view and verify every script to make sure nothing underhanded is going down.
I've been using these subs for a few years now, and I never really thought about this stuff, but now when I think about it too, I'm on this site a lot and I always thought I just like this sub a lot, but now I kind of wonder if I was like programmed or something to like this site a lot.
Either way I'm still going to use all the subs I have but I'm going to proceed with caution on anything above 4g.