Blizzard: DRM is a Losing Battle

[drowned]

Fuck you Blizzard for removing LAN.

 

[fletchoid]

I like Steam. I don't need to keep switching disks, and in fact don't even have disks for many of my games. I can install them on unlimited number of computers, and play them anywhere. Unfortunately, ALWAYS having an internet connection is not always possible for everyone. So why not have something like Microsoft has... one time phone activation. You provide your key, their computer checks to make sure you are the legit owner of that key, then you type in some numbers,... voila, you are activated. DRM that messes with your boot sector, causes lockups, is seen by your antivirus software as a trojan and crashes your system, are all ways to totally alienate your customers. Unobtrusive DRM is the way to go.

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]ivaroeines[/nom]I think of piracy a bit like this. You have a rich farmer that loses one of his seed off his wagon on the way to market, a poor farmer finds the lost seed and plants it to feed his family, should the rich farmer drag the poor farmer to court so he get even richer and if he do, who do you feel for, the rich farmer or the poor one. This is the dilemma that faces the entertainment industry, they must find a way to make people want to pay for the things they make, not bend their arm forcing them to pay.[/citation]
It may seem like just one little seed to the individual pirate, but for the rich farmer I'd say piracy is a lot more like a group of thugs jump out of the woods hit the farmer over the head and start grabbing big 'ol bags of grain and running off with them. Starving for entertainment is not the same as just plain "starving" and actually just shows a lack of imagination. Also no one in the entertainment industry is bending arms or breaking legs to force anyone to buy their product. It may feel like they are charging an arm & leg, but poor people don't have a "right" to cheap or free access to someone else's intellectual property just because without it they will be bored.