Mandrake said:

How about anyone employed by Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft to make ANY product that they make. They all depend on the copyright to make a living.

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Sony and Microsoft could dissapear forever in my opinion fuk those greedy companies,they are prime examples of shitting on the employees.

Nitendo has made some good stuff and from what I hear ,they operate fairly........I bet you would not complain if all those games you shelled out the big bucks for were 5 dollars or free....

Some pretty bitchen games have been made by people for free.....add ons are one good example,they use the game engine,which is ecrypted and a editor to make add ons ,some much much better than the original.
I used to play rouge spear and spent countless hour making maps for that game for free ,some got alot of play.....using the game engine ,which those people bought from someone else and added my own images too.

Just because you think nobody would do stuff for free ,does not mean anyone else thinks that way.The game engine ,which most game companies lease for thier games are encripted and belongs to someone else,they supply a editor to use that encrypted engine.

Americas Army is prime example of a good free game....I have bought all the new games in the last 4 years and I play Americas Army because it is much better than most of the other games ,as far as gameplay.
Now the greedy companies charge for add ons ,they used to be free and made by gamers....lots of gamers would share the program and add thier own little twists and graphics to it and keep updating it.

I could see limited copywrite or patents that exspire in 10 years....how many 10 year old games do you play......
Copywrites help build corperations that suck the life out of us.