Okay, mister license guy. I have a license to drive my car and like any license, it's a privilege not a right.
It's not the same thing. You have the right to use your car how you like on your own land. The license gives you the right to drive on the road the state paves for you.
HOWEVER, when I bought this license, my vehicle also came with it.
Your driver's license? Really? Free car? Well stuff, looks like I have something to look forward to.
Now, if the vehicle isn't working along with every other vehicle every other client purchased from this company, is it my fault or the manufacturer's fault?
Could be either. But this is a faulty brown townogy; you aren't required to have your car inspected every time you get on the road.
And on the topic of intellectual property, the license verifies the game that is a correct, legitimately purchased copy and if it is not, I'm not allowed to drive on public roads. If I get pulled over and a police officer (the master server) asks to see my license, I have it right here.
EXCEPT that Blockland works fundamentally differently. It would be the equivalent to being pulled over every time you left your driveway, not just because he thinks you're committing a traffic crime. Blockland checks everyone when they launch.
But if the police are on a day off (master server is down), nobody's allowed to loving drive? Just cause the police decided not to work today? Is that your argument because if it is it's an imbecilic one. I understand the concept of intellectual property very well and the pulling over isn't a problem to me, it's the fact that all the roads are closed cause the cops are out getting loving doughnuts - so nobody goes anywhere even if they have a license and car that's supposed to work. I can't even pull into my own loving driveway, are you kidding me?
No? That's not my argument at all. You wrote down those words and then tried to say that I-- okay, look. I already explained to you that driving is not a good metaphor... but... you just keep going, huh? Your driving brown townogy doesn't work because the police don't come around and approve you to drive every time you want to. The police respond to crimes, they don't regulate. The police are reactionary, not proactive.
You're right, I'm not allowed to copy this smoothie and give it to someone else or sell it to someone else whenever I want but I should still be allowed to loving drink it, at least by myself.
No, the whole point is that yOU ARE ALLOWED TO SELL IT because it's a limited resource. If I took your song, copied it and put the download links which give no credit to you over on some black market forum, I'm violating your intellectual property because I'm copying it without your approval, which I can do infinitely, which is the whole reason why IP is treated differently from say, smoothies.
Adobe doesn't take a day off, Autodesk doesn't take a day off, hell even other software let you at least play singleplayer mode with bots.
They don't need to take a day off because they've already sold you the license to use their software. Unlike Blockland you aren't required to check your Adobe license every time you open PS or whatever. It just happens that Badspot wants to use his licensing system differently, which is his right.
People will pirate the singleplayer and will distribute it and it's unavoidable in any game, computers all work the same way and with some work can read the same language - the game's gonna get cracked.
Enjoy your ban.
Period. The way to limit this functionality is to put a "bottleneck" through which the players connect, authenticate, and THEEEEEN we decide if they can play or not. This mechanic is implemented into MMOs as a result of their networking nature.
Badspot deserves every cent of hard work he puts into making this game fun for us. This is his way of making sure he gets his due.
If this is the case, why isn't Blockland labeled as an MMO - not because of it's multiplayer capacity, but because of it's dependence on a central server? Cause obviously if the server's down, nobody plays period. End of discussion. Think about it, why does the suspected DDoS hacker only work on MMOs / LoL, which use a central server? Because they realize that everybody's forgeted because of one connection. The arteries are easy to see and clearly easy to sever.
So it's a flawed system. Since you're so fond of brown townogies... a grocery store. If the grocery store is locked up by the staff, then nobody gets their bread and milk. BUT I HAVE A RIGHT TO BREAD AND MILK!
Sorry, not sure where that was going. Guess that was a bad brown townogy...
Now, in the perspective of the attacker, this "financial safety feature" was hilariously enough the Achilles heel of the entire system - and it isn't that hard to figure it out. If you only make one way for the cattle to get in the slaughter, the tree huggers only have ONE target to disable, and the entire operation is flawed.
Yes, the system doesn't always work. We've established this. But like I've said, this is how Baddy checks to make sure he's not begin scammed out of his IP.
I understand it's not necessarily anybody but the attackers' fault, but I don't understand why you support the idea of, in comparison, the government shutting down. It's an outrage
Just like the police, the government is also a reactionary body. They exist to punish you for things you already did, not things you might do. The Blockland system is opposite, forcing you to check in to keep you from playing a stolen game.
