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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
Look.... Matrix made a very generous offer, in my opinion. Especially for people that can't afford to go out and buy new content. And that's who it really applies to anyway. They're giving the average schmuck a chance to compete here... the price is laid out up front: Your tour. If you don't agree, then you don't take the deal. Any other content provider would do the same, so why are you bashing Matrix? Don't like the offer? Don't sign the agreement. Buy your fucking content.
And don't fucking quote me on this shit and try to make me look like the bad guy. Especially when there IS no bad guy on this one.
Go away kush. You bashed for no reason on this one.
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First off, I know you're a good guy and wouldn't try to make it appear otherwise - and maybe you're right about Matrix. I've got no beef with them; I am not in competition with them nor am I contestant in this contest (I'm just asserting my opinion is non-biased)
Hear me out: A designer creates a kickass tour and uses the Matrix content to offer quality images to impress the audience. He labours HOURS upon HOURS thinking, designing, planning, and tweaking (and you know what that's like).
At the end of the contest he comes one spot away from winning the prize. Under a normal situation he at least wouldn't walk away empty-handed; he would still have his kickass tour which he could turn a great profit on selling or using it himself. Instead, Matrix keeps the valuable tour, and the webmaster ends up with absolutely nothing.
Now look at it from Matrix's point of view:
They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Their pics don't get any exposure to surfers, therefore they don't lose any value. Matrix appears to get a better rep by "sponsoring" the contest, but all the really sponsor is themselves because they are the ones who come away the winner in the end and the designer is the loser (lost money from time that goes towards Matrix).
If it was truly a "generous" offer then Matrix would simply say the designer couldn't use the tour without first purchasing license to the sets that he used to create the tour. But instead, Matrix says "fuck that" and chooses to just take the tour. And even if the designer chose NOT to buy the images, then he simple couldn't include them in the tour. In no way should he lose his ownership of HIS tour for NOTHING!
Amp, you're a rational, intelligent guy. Explain to me how there's nothing wrong with this picture (because honestly - I can't figure it out)