I always laugh when I see someone use about as "apples and oranges" of a comparison as I have ever seen to justify something to themselves.I'm sorry, but that was weak. I'm not taking sides or anything, I'm just amazed that someone would publicly make such a weak comparison to try to make a point. Those things are so dissimilar...
Of course it is a bit of a stretch for the sake of playing devil's advocate but I fail to how it's "weak" or a case of apples and oranges. If I take a copy of Street Fighter 2 and make small adjustments and re-sell it as a brand new game that is obviously piracy and you would call it copyright infringement and rightfully so. However, Mortal Kombat takes a lot of SF2's ideas (or vice versa: I can't remember) but they are clearly different games so nothing wrong there. However, if a game like Fighter's History comes out that's still not considered piracy or stealing although that game is such a blatant ripoff I don't even need to go into any detail. You can stand up and tell me that it's ludicrous to say the industry is based on stealing ideas but you have to admit at some point the line becomes blurred between legitimately borrowing ideas and blatantly copying and stealing, whether it's legal or not.You should know more than anyone that copyright laws are practically written by the large players in the movie and game industry to protect their interests and not some lofty goal of justice and fairness.
