| General Category > General Discussion |
| Why have CD/DVD lables? |
| << < (3/3) |
| KaiserWAVE:
All we can do is to actively distance us from pirating software. The sad fact is we can't stop piracy. Our covers are among the best on the net, I'm sure many of our covers have been used on pirated games to make them look as close to a legitimate copy as possible. But it's a community effort. People who love gaming, retro or current, come here to share with others. I despise pirates from the bottom of my heart since they not only steal the game but profit from other people's work. It's not just scanning in a cover or lable and it's good to go. There's cleaning the image, possible resizing, uploading the image which my cost bandwidth; actual work to be done before it's ready. I, personally, don't need disc scans and I'm pretty sure that software pirates will gladly download a lable. But in my oppinion that shouldn't mean that we take the scans down and all the people in need of those scans (be it a minority or not) get the shit end of the stick. |
| Doom:
--- Quote from: Mick Dundee on February 11, 2009, 06:00:59 AM --- I came across this site because of my older games being a messy unorganized box of cartridges. --- End quote --- I came across this site by seeing an image of a replacement case for a PS1, thinking I'd love to do that on N64, googling something like "replacement N64 case" and coming across the thread on CAG. Found two awesome websites with one search - cheapassgamer.com and (I think it was still part of Snackbar Games then) The Cover Project. |
| Vt102:
--- Quote from: Doom on February 11, 2009, 04:25:08 PM --- --- Quote from: Mick Dundee on February 11, 2009, 06:00:59 AM --- I came across this site because of my older games being a messy unorganized box of cartridges. --- End quote --- I came across this site by seeing an image of a replacement case for a PS1, thinking I'd love to do that on N64, googling something like "replacement N64 case" and coming across the thread on CAG. Found two awesome websites with one search - cheapassgamer.com and (I think it was still part of Snackbar Games then) The Cover Project. --- End quote --- For me it was wile looking for Sega Saturn Raws. I was already working on Sega CD and on Saturn for my own games, and behold to my amazement! there were other people interested in the same thing.. |
| juan0tron:
--- Quote from: Vt102 on February 11, 2009, 07:45:30 PM --- --- Quote from: Doom on February 11, 2009, 04:25:08 PM --- --- Quote from: Mick Dundee on February 11, 2009, 06:00:59 AM --- I came across this site because of my older games being a messy unorganized box of cartridges. --- End quote --- I came across this site by seeing an image of a replacement case for a PS1, thinking I'd love to do that on N64, googling something like "replacement N64 case" and coming across the thread on CAG. Found two awesome websites with one search - cheapassgamer.com and (I think it was still part of Snackbar Games then) The Cover Project. --- End quote --- For me it was wile looking for Sega Saturn Raws. I was already working on Sega CD and on Saturn for my own games, and behold to my amazement! there were other people interested in the same thing.. --- End quote --- Yeah I had once found a MGS1 DVD cover on deviantART, and I thought it was so cool I googled for more, which led me to a CAG thread, which eventually lead me to here :D Back on topic, the pirating thing has nothing to do with this site's goal, to provide those in need of covers with the scans they need. If pirates are using them, so be it. But from my experience, most pirates are lazy, so I doubt they'd bother printing the labels for the games. Although that could probably be a good gamestop scam... --- Quote ---By the way, you might also want to also take the time to complain about the flash cart cover ( http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=2892 ) we have for DS. Wink --- End quote --- Yeah even then not everyone uses flashcarts for piracy. I happen to be an active member of a homebrew site, and while most of 'em are dirty stealing bastards, a lot are there for the hombrew aspect of it. Take Smash Bros. Rumble for example. |
| TheValeman:
Wow!!! Has this got out of hand or what? I my opinion one of the purposes of the site is to document for prosterity original game box/cover artwork. Originally it encompassed mainly boxart for the older systems like N64, NES, SNES etc. These were all released by Nintendo on cardboard boxes which wear out over time and it seemed logical that someone buying a cart only from a video shop might be happy to have a plastic box with a reproduction of the original boxart to make it look nice on the shelf. I started scanning N64 labels as second hand carts often have destroyed labels so it seemed a natural progression at the time. What happened was the site morphed into a be all & end all site as people wanted PS2, XBox etc & disc labels are just part of that progression. Really, other than documenting original art etc there is ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER VALID REASON for disc labels other than for printing them onto blank printable DVD/CD's . And that's piracy ... pure and simple. You can use the "I own an original and want to make a backup" scenario for stating you want a label but who's kidding who around here? However, while I have personally stated several times that I disagree with providing boxart/disk labels for non-retro based systems which are still on sale ... PS2, XBox, XBox360, Wii,Gamecube etc ... for that very reason, why should Snowcone's best intentions around preserving original game art in all forms be subverted by the mere thought they MIGHT be used on pirated products? It's not the site that's the issue here quadro. If a person wants a label or cover they will get it anyway. And wholesale counterfieters/sellers don't need our site as all as they will just buy one original and duplicate 1000's from it. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Previous page |