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SWAnimefan
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It's only a matter of time til we know if it is, or if it isn't really Konami.
But personally, I'm suspicious. Konami's business practices has been questionable for sometime, as if they were sabotaging their own efforts. And it's not impossible their upper echelon stashing away hidden funds in hopes someone offers to buy Konami, then they retrieve this money and live the life of luxary for the rest of their lives. Of course that's speculation. So do take it as a grain of salt. |
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nargun
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Trademarks are for the purposes of trade. When you're applying to register one, you have to say the sorts of trade you're going to use it for; unregistered ones much the same thing applies. Since it's unlikely that Konami-proper has registered the trademark for the purposes of tax avoidance services... yeah. "IP" is a useful catch-all for sort-of-similar things, but, really, different sorts of IP are more different than they are similar. [two companies with the same name in different industries -- music and computers, say -- don't cause confusion and so don't violate trademarks.] |
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c933103
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Does that mean those news reporters also have information about what have been reported to government so that they would make such a report? |
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valoon
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I don't really care if they don't pay their taxes. They make good things so people shouldn't care what they did in the past.
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enurtsol
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Not unless people disclose their tax paperwork like Cameron did. Otherwise, it's up to the local authorities to check. It's to the benefits of countries to disclose those who cheat their own tax laws and put the burden on everyone else. |
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Blanchimont
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I'd say most people don't really have much of an issue with what they did in the past. Castlevania, Suikoden, Metal Gear, a lot of classics came from them. Nowadays however, they tend mostly to enjoy the patronage of various pachinko parlors. And just being famous for awful working conditions... |
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Arale Kurashiki
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"Game maker"? Seriously? The term is "developer". What kind of article uses such a vague unprofessional term as "game maker" for a development and publishing company?
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leafy sea dragon
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They do more than just develop video games though, but everything Konami does, to my knowledge, is related to games in some capacity. Hence, "game maker" would be a phrase vague enough to cover all of Konami's activities. |
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Arale Kurashiki
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Oh, sure, it's technically accurate, but it's also a term that nobody in the industry actually uses.
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leafy sea dragon
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What would you say is the proper term to describe a company that makes, publishes, and distributes video games (including mobile games, and they sometimes publish or distribute games other companies make) and gambling machines?
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c933103
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Put the burden on everyone else? Even if those large corps are going to pay more and let government have more money, government still won't collect fewer from others nor put that extra money for good use, what's the difference? |
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enurtsol
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Whether or not the extra tax money is put to good use is another story. But generally when there's less money to use, some things won't get done that people want done. So in order to get done, either taxes would have to be raised for everyone else who don't cheat, or they have to borrow money. So it affects those people who don't cheat while not affecting those who do cheat. The wealthy elites already make the tax laws in a country - and yet they cheat on the very tax laws they make, leaving everyone else to follow the rules and make up their missing shares. |
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c933103
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Not sure about rest of the world but that's certainly not the case here as the government reserve find keep having more and more money |
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