Re: [GD-General] Collecting info from players

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

Ivan-Assen Ivanov wrote:

> The information that you're using a Pentium 4 / 2.4 GHz with 512 MB
> RAM can... ummmm... can you think of something evil that can happen
> to you?

This is true, no wrong will probably come out of that. However, no software
development company is entitled to make that decision for the individual
customer. There would be no wrong in me coming inside your house to watch TV
while you're at E3, but I'm sure you wouldn't be happy about that happening
without your explicit permission, despite the fact that no harm at all was
done. Well, it is YOUR house, and it is MY computer. Stay out of my property
and I'll stay out of yours. It's no crusade, it's common sense.

There is no need to call people names if they are more concerned than you
about their privacy. Let your chosen legislators make decisions about what
constitutes privacy and what doesn't (and hope they'll make good choices).
Nobody has given *you* permission to make that decision, and you have heard
enough arguments about it to at least accept that your position is not
absolutely and universally accepted.

It would be kind of funny to see someone be accused of pirating Unreal
Tournament 2003, only to hear him defending his position with these same
words: "No harm was done since I wasn't going to buy the game anyway. What
do they care? They obviously agree with me on this."

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios