Re: [GD-General] Collecting info from players

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

Timur,

I wasn't arguing about the legality of it (hence my point about letting
legislators handle that), I'm talking about the personal, ethical and moral
implications. Surely I don't expect coporate businesses to care about my
personal rights when it conflicts with their business, that's why some of us
express our opinions, in the hope that it will help steer things in the
direction we think is right.

The idea that doing so is considered by some as "getting caught up in a high
cause", "paranoia" or "lack of common sense" is truly saddening.

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios

Timur Davidenko wrote:
> This illegal for you to be in someones house and watch TV,
> It`s not illegal to collect CPU data and send to server,
> Business and ethics rarely go hand by hand.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Arevalo [mailto: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."