i haven't been to a LAN cafe in a long time, but the ones I went to charged you extra for a computer with net access. IT DOESN'T NEED THE NET, so why make it DEPENDENT ON THE NET! shall we make pocket calculators require A NET CONNECTION TO FUNCTION?!?!?
[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]Congratulations pirates. You managed to convince Blizzard that in order to secure revenue from these two games and fight piracy they need to force customers to use Battle.net to authenticate each game. I find it even more ironic that the people here at Toms Hardware get mad at this while at the same time admit and boast about their illegal downloading habits whenever TPB or RIAA articles come up. You keep breaking into my house I'll get a nice fancy alarm. You don't have the right to get pissed about the alarm. Only the neighbors who get woken up by the alarm have the right to get pissed. You thieves need to sit here and reap what you sowed. You've ruined it for the legitimate buyers.[/citation]
what if your alarm went off every time you came home? no matter what? yet when a burglar came, they just switched off your power and stopped it from going off? would you be pissed off then? we get angry about DRM cause in general, it has more negative effects on legitimate buyers than pirates, at the very best, it just puts everyone in the same boat as pirates, effectively treating us all like criminals. most DRM solutions are the equivalent to "whats that? someone murdered someone with a gun? well, guns are illegal now. huh? a drink driver caused an accident? fine, will ban drinking... and cars..."
even more infuriating in this case, is that blizzard - which must be the richest company in the world cause of WoW - just wants everyone to connect to battlenet so they can make money off advertising, and control, or at least keep an eye on what everyone is doing. i mean, they are as bad as apple.