Why no 360 cover uploads?

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quadro:

--- Quote from: AppleQueso on January 25, 2009, 09:17:58 PM ---In no way does having current gen covers on the site encourage piracy. I don't even see how you made that connection. I can almost guarantee that most people downloading those covers are doing so for the same reason the rest of us are: because we bought a copy used without the case or our own case is damaged and we want a high quality replacement. Not hosting them because they have the potential of being abused is absurd. That would be like banning pencils because they can potentially be used as a deadly weapon.

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True and for the most part, I agree, I can't count the number of times I have bought used games and not gotten a lable with it (for a CD/DVD game) or box (cartridge games) in the past.
But, please elaborate on this point:
How do you explain the need for a CD/DVD Lable?

http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=6146
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=5643
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=4213

I mean, those are commercial games with custom/retail lables there. In what situation would someone need those lables for a CD/DVD without pirating the game being involved? I can understand lables for homebrew and ports made by developers online like say, Quake 2 for Xbox and such.

the7k:
Well, in one case, I actually would use disc labels if I had such technology available. Namely, my copy of Star Wars: Battlefront for the PS2 has scratches on the front of it. It doesn't affect the game, but it would be nice to fix as it is pretty unsightly.

Still, I can certainly understand why such a thing would be unnecessary to host. Considering space is always such a precious resource, I'd also say there is no need to have them here when we could have more covers instead.

TheValeman:
Quadro has mentioned his views on CD/DVD labels in a couple of threads here to date revolving around the idea that the only use for a label is piracy.

Personally, I agree with him.

Printing a cover onto a paper label for the purpose of covering a scratched original disc is almost non-sensical. The issues around disc's not spinning up quickly enough due to the added weight or labels coming off in drives when they heat up & the adhesive lets go are well known .... I ruined a cd-writer that way .... so anyone trying it is courting disaster frankly.

However, as I stated in another post ... why should our preserving original artwork in all it's forms ... be stopped because the POTENTIAL exists for its misuse. That's the same as the idea of banning cars or guns because they can be used to run someone over or shoot them. It's not the tools [in this case disk labels] that is the problem.

In the movie Happy Gilmore a shirt logo on Happy's old boss stated it very well indeed "Guns dont kill people ..... I kill them"

AppleQueso:
I would respond to Quadro, but TheValeman pretty much nailed my response for the most part.

Snowcone:
Agreed. We aren't pirating games and we aren't advocating it. We are in the pursuit of preserving this content in it's original form in a high resolution form. We make it available to the community free of charge. I scan both insert and disc simply because I can and I'd rather have both while I can still find both.

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