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Can anyone find a single original copy of PotC anymore?

We still have to try, don't we? In the Netherlands there is a saying that if you do not shoot, you're definitly not going to hit anything. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=310534:date=Apr 3 2009, 03:23 PM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pieter Boelen @ Apr 3 2009, 03:23 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=310534"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We still have to try, don't we? In the Netherlands there is a saying that if you do not shoot, you're definitly not going to hit anything. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I thought it was a saying from this former cowboy Bush <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
"Niet geschoten is altijd mis" translates as "Not shot is always missed".
 
I wonder if Disney would go for releasing the game as a free download, provided it comes bundled with demos and other junk for their other games? Yes, it would be a pain to have to get the game plus extra stuff if you're on dial up, but maybe Disney would go for it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
Is it possible to get this game off a legitimate download site? Say Direct2driver or steam? This is probably the simplest solution.
 
Nope. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
There has been much controversy over the use of BitTorrent trackers. BitTorrent metafiles themselves do not store copyrighted data, hence BitTorrent itself is not illegal—it is the use of it to copy copyrighted material that contravenes laws in some locations.

There are two major differences between BitTorrent and many other peer-to-peer file-trading systems, which advocates suggest make it less useful to those sharing copyrighted material without authorization. First, BitTorrent itself does not offer a search facility to find files by name. A user must find the initial torrent file by other means, such as a web search. Second, BitTorrent makes no attempt to conceal the host ultimately responsible for facilitating the sharing: a person who wishes to make a file available must run a tracker on a specific host or hosts and distribute the tracker address(es) in the .torrent file. Because it is possible to operate a tracker on a server that is located in a jurisdiction where the copyright holder cannot take legal action, the protocol does offer some vulnerability that other protocols lack. It is far easier to request that the server's ISP shut down the site than it is to find and identify every user sharing a file on a peer-to-peer network. However, with the use of a distributed hash table (DHT), trackers are no longer required, though often used for client software that does not support DHT to connect to the stream.
 
<!--quoteo(post=311275:date=Apr 6 2009, 06:44 AM:name=Death: Extra Crispy?)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Death: Extra Crispy? @ Apr 6 2009, 06:44 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=311275"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is it possible to get this game off a legitimate download site? Say Direct2driver or steam? This is probably the simplest solution.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Well, I just wanna say than Direct2driver or steam would be an expensive way. it can be found in french here:

<a href="http://9giga.sfr.fr/n/50-17/share/LNK823249db45753fdc8/" target="_blank">http://9giga.sfr.fr/n/50-17/share/LNK823249db45753fdc8/</a>

Could somebody give me English version?

And if I didn't find games to download like that I surely would'nt buy this games (or others) the price it's sold. The problem is also if a game is a little bit old it's not less expensive, or you've to buy it in a second hand, doesn't knowif it's work...well
 
The game certainly DID become less expensive. Orginally it was 40 euro's, when I bought it about a year later, it was 15 and another year later, it was sold for 5!!!
Seriously, 5 euro's for a new game should be affordable. Of course now you can't FIND it anymore, so you couldn't pay those 5 euro's if you wanted to. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=311368:date=Apr 6 2009, 10:39 PM:name=firemark)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (firemark @ Apr 6 2009, 10:39 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=311368"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There has been much controversy over the use of BitTorrent trackers. BitTorrent metafiles themselves do not store copyrighted data, hence BitTorrent itself is not illegal—it is the use of it to copy copyrighted material that contravenes laws in some locations.

There are two major differences between BitTorrent and many other peer-to-peer file-trading systems, which advocates suggest make it less useful to those sharing copyrighted material without authorization. First, BitTorrent itself does not offer a search facility to find files by name. A user must find the initial torrent file by other means, such as a web search. Second, BitTorrent makes no attempt to conceal the host ultimately responsible for facilitating the sharing: a person who wishes to make a file available must run a tracker on a specific host or hosts and distribute the tracker address(es) in the .torrent file. Because it is possible to operate a tracker on a server that is located in a jurisdiction where the copyright holder cannot take legal action, the protocol does offer some vulnerability that other protocols lack. It is far easier to request that the server's ISP shut down the site than it is to find and identify every user sharing a file on a peer-to-peer network. However, with the use of a distributed hash table (DHT), trackers are no longer required, though often used for client software that does not support DHT to connect to the stream.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Why haven't the torrent sites been shut down?
 
I bought it on amazon.de (Germany´s Amazon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> )

There you´ll find it:

<a href="http://www.amazon.de/fluch-karibik/s/qid=1239780383/ref=sr_nr_i_8?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=Fluch%20der%20Karibik&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AFluch%20der%20Karibik%2Ci%3Avideogames" target="_blank">Pirates of the Caribbean (Amazon)</a>

Original game without mods is german...but if you install build it´ll be english <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
So don´t fear the language :p
 
You would still have some German language loading screens and voices though, right? We could theoretically include those in Build 14.
The loading screens will all be redone anyway. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
Well...let me think <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

I use build 14 (as you know <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> ) can´t remember I have seen a german loading screen. Some dialogs (the voices NOT the text) is german but i think thats not really a problem.
 
No German loading screens? Does the German game version HAVE German loading screens? I'm pretty sure Build 14 Alpha 9 doens't overwrite <i>everything</i>.
It does overwrite a lot though, so you wouldn't encounter many original screens anyway. And indeed it wouldn't really be a problem. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" />
 
Long time ago I played it without any build <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

But the german version does have german loading screens. But with Build I didn´t encounter any. Maybe I did not take note of them, could be posible... But the 'standard' loading screens were english.
Like 'battle' or 'port'. If I see some german in the modded version I´ll tell you <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
 
Those are all replaced, yes. But there might be some German ones left. For example the House ones, I suspect.
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The Pirate Bay Founders jailed

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm</a>

A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website.

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.

They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages.

In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media."

Mr Sunde went on to say that he "got the news last night that we lost".

"It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release."

The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures.

The Pirate Bay is the world's most high profile file-sharing website and was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.

Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day.

No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

The four indicated earlier this week that they would appeal if convicted.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
 
Sweden is a very strange country. They recently got very agressive in the anti-terror field of laws and have spend the last years establishing room for a parallel to the american NSA. "To protect their own citizens from terror in the name of freedom of speech". Now this makes sense, right? But what it really means, is that they are now in their full right to listen to all communications, be it analog and digital, encrypted or not, going through Sweden. As lot of traffic in Scandinavia is directed through Sweden, every surrounding country's constitutional laws on civil rights are made useless on this account!
Also, the very year after Denmark declared itself as a free area of nuclear power forever, Sweden placed the only nuclear plant they have as close to Denmark as possible. In case of a leak, the wind will carry the nuclear material away from Sweden and right into our face <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />
Sometimes, Sweden just act like they are the king of the world. And this strange way of thinking is the reason why Sweden have always been at war with at least one Scandinavian country constantly through history.

Back to the topic of filesharing, Sweden have absolutely no laws defined on this matter, which is why this case is so interesting. It shows, how much pressure the international music and movie industry is pushing on Sweden to get a verdict through, that will make an example for other countries, if they dont correspond to their corporate business politics. It is really very scary and will hit us all, if this verdict is not turned in the national court. If this was in Denmark, we would withstand this pressure, as we would not only be aware of what it will mean to ourselfes, but also the global civil rights on this matter. With the above mentioned cases in mind, I am not sure Sweden will even bother to think of the consequences, this will have to every other nation in the world <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
I find it hard to believe that a Scandinavian country followed USA's acts against terrorism, I had hoped that this paranoia would not have reached them (due to their superior thinking in social matters, they are ahead in the world). Anyhow, if this law case is won by the so- called pirates then the companies will have a huge problem, and I don't see that happening.
 
I know very little about Sweden and Scandinavia. Does the EU have a a standard law on piracy?

Is it true that college and health care is free in Sweden? Does this system work?

Anti Terrorism laws are just plain ridiculous. The terrorist threat is almost zero. If what you say is true, then it sounds like Sweden is trying to bully Scandinavia. I am with KnooBill... Why would any Scandinavian country adopt anti terrorism laws? I thought Sweden was supposed to have some of the world's most educated people?

Back to PirateBay matters. I do not think they should have been arrested. This situation does not make sense to me. Did they warn the founders to shut down the site before arresting them? The Pirate Bay site is still online. Is it being based in another country now?
 
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