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  1. eugimon
    wow. makes it look badass.
  2. eugimon
    nope. Well, unless you have a fetish for velour.
  3. eugimon
    It would have been far more interesting to just have norman kill her. Recycling 20 years of peter stuck at home with aunt may isn't terribly interesting either.
  4. eugimon
    anything that helps derail that uncle tom production is worthwhile.
  5. eugimon
    there was a good one? lol
  6. eugimon
    Funny, cuz for a while everyone loved Joe for reviving Marvel... when did the infatuation end? I like to think it started with Origins.
  7. eugimon
    it helps if you get the tab in and then flip up that bottom flap thing on the bottom of the fuselage.
  8. eugimon
    no, it's correct, the angle just makes it look confusing.
  9. eugimon
    AHAHAHA, I just read the wiki. hilarious.. poor James, I'm sure he'll be back but man, that's gotta sting. 616 logan was dumped into molten vat of metal so I'm sure pug-logan will make an appearance in ultimate land.
  10. eugimon
    yeah, it just looks like random sci-fi stuff I've seen before and crammed into a movie I already watched and didn't like too much the first time around.
  11. eugimon
    what? it's over? lol, I heard they were going to shut it down but some books like Ultimates 3 hadn't even concluded. haha
  12. eugimon
    honestly, I like it for what it is but the newer 1/60's have left it in the dust. There's just no comparing it to the yf-21 or the vf-11 and ver 2.0 vf-1.
  13. eugimon
    yeah.. I stopped reading it around there too. Well, I stopped reading spiderman completely since the main continuity story got pretty ridiculous as well.
  14. eugimon
    yes. I used to be a big proponent of closing down 616 continuity altogether and carrying on in the Ultimate universe because I liked it so much better.. but not anymore, early every flagship book has gone to crap in terms of storytelling and quality.
  15. eugimon
    so velor suits and capes and psychic powers all around? Can't wait.
  16. eugimon
    Make sure the little tab on the bottom of the nose cone lock goes into the little receptacle shown here:
  17. eugimon
    Well, unfortunately right and wrong or pretty grey... I can't verify this but I was told by my cousin in Korea and some other people there that when the core Disney characters came up for license in South Korea some lady who owned a local grocery store managed to grab the license first (the characters were painted on the side of her shop at the time) and consequently Disney had to pay *her* royalties for the rights to use those characters. So... did the lady "steal" from Disney? Certainly she didn't create those characters nor spend billions turning them into world wide properties, so what "right" did she have to profit from them and perversely force the actual creators of those characters to pay her? And yet, if Disney were to ignore her legal rights and use their moral right to go around her, they would be the ones "stealing". So I get what you're saying... the rule of thumb is if you're getting something for nothing, you're stealing... but unless what that "something" is is properly defined and licensed under the specific laws of your country... that something may in fact be nothing.... and getting nothing for nothing isn't stealing at least as far as you can prove in court... which is all that matters to most. It's just another way in which our copyright and fair use laws have yet to catch up to the realities of the modern world.
  18. eugimon
    Sorry, my apologies, it just seems like the moral concept of theft and the legal concept are being confused. There really should be but it's hard to get everyone to play together. Like in the US fair us laws allow for bars and restaurants to show TV programming like sports or music videos... but there's odd rules like the TV has to be less that 55 inches and no more than 5 speakers connected to the sound system, basically what could be found in a "home". But those US laws conflict with international laws. Anyways, several legitimate US streaming services like HULU or individual networks like NBC limit their viewing to people in specific geographic regions. In this way, they can verify their viewership, continue to sell ads for those programs and not be in conflict with whatver laws in whatever part of the world they don't have license for.
  19. eugimon
    I loved the ending too!
  20. eugimon
    or Dances with Wolves... in space.
  21. eugimon
    My point is that a "license" can mean many things. And if you don't have the right "license" then you may or may not be able to claim your work as your own. This goes for the small time, contract employee and all the way up to corporations. If you don't license your work and get the appropriate copyrights then that work is open to anyone who stumbles across it and you don't have any legal right to make them stop or compensate you. You keep mixing up your ethics and morals with what is "legal" those concepts may have overlap but they are not same. I'm sorry, it was Virgin and the service was Flickr and it WAS Australia, it was the "Dump your pen friend" campaign. And yes, just like you should watermark your image, license holders should license their work in intended markets. Yeah, video watermarking happens all the time. Look at any network broadcast shows, you'll see logos in the corner, sometimes they crawl across the bottom of the screen, sometimes they're big bold opaque letters, sometimes they're nice and small, semi-transparent and unobtrusively tucked away in the corner. You see real world examples of this all the time. Some pop group in Korea gets popular and for a while their music and videos are all over youtube. Then when that group finally gets licensed for sale in the US, those same videos that were sitting on the net for weeks, months, years, get yanked down for copyright infringement. What might be considered theft morally or ethically isn't always so legally.
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    It all depends on the contracts. If the artist doesn't have the appropriate contracts he or she doesn't "own" his performance. So any recording of that performance can be used and reused without permission. (edit:: this almost *never* happens nowadays since even student artists have access to generic legal contracts that protect their rights. HOWEVER, there are lots of places like animal habitats that have it written into their entrance contract that the photographer doesn't own the rights to any of the images or sounds they capture in the habitat... so even the question of who owns what is a pretty tricky one... if you're a contracted artist, it pays to read the fine print). It's like if you upload a picture to photobucket or a video to youtube... under those services you don't have any rights to how your work is used even if photobucket or youtube use it in advertisements and profit off your work. I think there was actually a case in Australia or New Zealand where Verizon or some other big name company took a girl's photo off of one of those services and used her as a model in one of their campaigns. Her image was plastered everywhere but since she gave up any right to the image when she put it up on the net it was difficult for her to get them to stop. Anyways, what is legal is not always what is ethical. So if company X doesn't have the license to market and sell their material in whichever country, they can't claim you "stole" it (in the legal sense) because they have no rights to distribute it it in the first place... they don't legally "own" the material in that particular spot in the world. The only person(s) they can go after are the people in the intended market who don't abide by whatever fair use laws that are applicable.
  23. eugimon
    I thought it was permabans for anyone who even mentions that movie 'round these parts.
  24. eugimon
    I built an a secret underground temperature controlled warehouse out in the middle of the desert so I could store all my valkyries which I import by the container directly from yamato, the owner of which is an old high school friend of mine who sends me free toys because I saved his life by donating a kidney.
  25. eugimon
    parts of it look amazing... but I dunno, the whole alien native thing doesn't track for me, reminds me of some bad saturday morning cartoon.
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