Replies to pony, page 239
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@pony I am genuinely terrified
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@pony that si good
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@pony hello and how are you?
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@pony The bot is serving a useful purpose
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@pony There's no reason to have a second account
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@pony They've done some very Mac OS X-looking desktop environments. Not quite emulators but still.
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@pony The things I've downloaded, they don't play sirens for. (Mostly because thus far they don't do anything to Linux distro downloaders)
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@pony I actually didn't know about it until someone suggested it to me when YChat (another unofficial version of XChat that I was using at the time) was being affected by an attack that caused it to constantly disconnect from servers.
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@pony How should I know ? I normally have a chatterbox laptop running a proper OS next to me
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@pony The WDK stands for "Windows Development Kit"
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@pony *cough* use XChat-WDK *cough* the official Windows builds are ripoffs *cough*
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@pony How about using mIRC or using a proper Xchat hack ?
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@pony Yes, recursion. Thanks a bunch, you saved me from waking up 03:00 ( middle of the night ) shouting "Recursion... that word I was looking for is recursion"
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@pony Yes. But more like self-recasting piece of code that goes out once a sertain condition is met... You give that sort of code a certain operation-like name... What was that name/word ?
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@pony Public transportation can be scary, but it can be fun too since you get to see a bunch of different people. You also don't have to worry about driving, so you can use that time for reading or listening to music or drawing or studying, whatever.
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@pony Oh, 'Bob', I just noticed the car. Would Rarity ever be so uncloth as to be the chauffeur, that an earth pony's job, like AppleJack.
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@pony I found what i think the artist used as reference. I still consider it a unique work however. http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Oak_Library/Gallery?file=DtD_LibraryInside.png
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@pony @ceruleanspark a better comparison might be that Hasbro's marketing team gets paid to reuse the same tired vectors for things, so why shouldn't a fan artist be compensated?
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@pony No, as I said, it's a quote from a different C&D. Unfortunately, not being a per-pixel duplication doesn't exempt a work from being protected, any more than slicing a signiture or watermark off of a picture makes it your own. Put simply, despite the internets belief to the contrary, laws are typically enforced in their spirit, rather than their specific wordings.
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@pony To quote one of Hasbros own C&D's (The one sent to shards of equestria) “Fan fiction” does not constitute any of the potentially protected fair use purposes, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. That you call your work “parody” does not make it so, nor does it mean that it does not infringe Hasbro and Wizards’ copyrights and trademarks. In fact, your use of the MY LITTLE PONY® and MAGIC: THE GATHERING® elements is not parody at all. Under well-settled law, a parody comments in some way on the copyrighted or trademarked work that it is copying. Your game, on the other hand, does nothing of the sort. Rather you simply use Hasbro’s and Wizards’ intellectual property to create a game from these characters and elements in order to “avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh.”
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@pony They in fact, do not. A work of art of a copyrighted character or setting does not magically become unprotected just because it was made, otherwise it'd be possible to effectively "open source" protected media just by making a copy.
