Spins Meats
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Posted - 2010.06.10 01:06:00 -
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Edited by: Spins Meats on 10/06/2010 01:11:37
 Originally by: Jaron Stirling
Article 17.
ò(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
ò(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
This is the issue that is the primary at hand. Ownership of the salvage which was created by the destruction of an object.
Of course, then you might argue that we ALL are violating the Rights of both NPC and player alike when we destroy each other. That's a WHOLE new ball of wax. :)
You're applying IRL standards to actions in an internet spaceship game. I'll give you a hint: nothing in Eve is actually real. The game has a set of rules (lets call them 'mechanics') which everybody in-game is subjected to equally, and things such as theft, murder, salvaging, etc are perfectly permissible under these rules. Or, put another way, ninja salvaging in Eve is exactly as permissible as sinking your opponent's cueball in billiards (look this up if you don't get the reference.)
Originally by: Jaron Stirling
Your sarcasm isn't even funny considering that a "pirate" has present day references, from the
typically recognized high seas pirate who tends to commit violent crimes to the non-violent "pirate"
of financial or intellectual property. Your admission of being a pirate, humourouse intent or not,
still has realistic references behind them. You might want to be more careful of aligning yourself
with criminal behavior in real life than you just did.
A pirate (IRL) is somebody who takes stuff that isn't theirs (possibly employing violence to do so) on the high seas. Applying that label to people who commit "intellectual property" violations is a gross disrespect to anybody who's had their **** pushed in by pirates on the high seas; people have been making this mistake since Daniel Defoe complained bitterly about "pyrates" with printing presses, and continue to do so.
I think, given the parallels between eve ships and actual IRL ocean-going ships, that the term 'piracy' is considerably more apropos in this context than anything to do with "intellectual property".
Edit: fixed dumb typos
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