I dream of a world where no one has ANY money... because they gave it all to me.

For what it's worth, I hate that term "Intellectual Property". This is a case of possible copyright infringement, not theft.

And, of course, every time you spent it, someone else would get some ;)

Hehehe, just watch out for friction burns, Scrooge could only get away with it because he is a Duck, and if Ducks can survive in the Thames, a few thousand tonnes of metal is nothing...

"Marxist Doesn't Want To Share"

That's a delicious headline.

@Joe and Myrpok:

But...

He's letting people download it for free! So there is no profit

As well, there's no reference that she did anything involved in the making of the game, so by the Marxist approach, she should get nothing. Her thinking is very capitalist as opposed to Marxist.

Capitalism theory says, as I understand it, that those who can make the money should make the money, and market forces will provide for all players. This is anti-capitalistic, actually, lordlundar, since, in this case, r-s-g.org is leveraging that work for their own gain. Capitalists would say, let the market forces prevail.

The fact that Debord was a Marxist doesn't mean his wife has to be. Anyway, the world is not Marxist and as they say, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

Mike, good find.

But Debord was not a Marxist. He was a situationist. Quite different, as they said in the late 60s "yes a Marxist, of the Groucho variety". Had he simply been a marxist there would be no irony at all. Situationists, however, believed in undermining systems by such tactics as giving away for free items which would normally be paid for. Their house journal was called "Potlatch", supposedly a term from Native Americans relating to gift giving as a means to remove surplus capital from circulation (thus performing one of the functions that religion has traditionally performed).
1978 though? Well, Mitterand's presidency was just around the corner: the old situationists and radicals (the non-suicides) were on the cusp of accepting lucrative sinecures from the fifth republic, totally co-opted by the establishment. Althusser's wife was not long for the world.
Despite the political naivety I really enjoyed this - the game came up in conversation only last week and I'd forgotten to look for it, and the virtualpolitik blog looks excellent too.

It is not hypocrisy to deal in the economy one has available while advocating one that you think is better.

That would be like saying that one is wrong to petition the king in spite of held beliefs in democracy. It is not as if ones beliefs, held strongly enough, will remove unwanted players from the equation.