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Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues
An anonymous reader writes "There was some discussion last month about the proposed DRM for Mass Effect and Spore that required the game to phone home every ten days. They backed down from that, but have left in that a user is only allowed 3 activations per license key. A license key is burned up when the O/S is reinstalled, when certain hardware is upgraded (EA refuses to disclose specifics of what), and possibly when a new user is set up in Windows. Only in its first month, some users are already locked out of their games from trying troubleshooting techniques to get the game running."
What's this? DRM causes massive amounts of consumer frustration while doing little to protect the rights of the property owner?
Huh.
Really?
1 A fall on the buttocks.
2 A humiliating error, failure, or defeat: "His characters not only survive their snarled problems and pratfalls but learn from their experiences"
Source - pratfalls. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved June 17, 2008, from Dictionary.com website
To give praise to; glorify. See Synonyms at praise.
n.
1 Praise; glorification.
2 A hymn or song of praise.
lauds also Lauds (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
A) Ecclesiastical The service of prayers following the matins and constituting with them the first of the seven canonical hours.
b) The time appointed for this service.
laud. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved June 17, 2008, from Dictionary.com website:
In otherword, "to praise its shortcomings"
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Next time try adding to the conversation instead of attempting to sound smart by citing a Wiki-level source, fuck-o.
It doesn't matter how many times you say it or what words you use, there will be those with morality enough to do the right thing instead of the easy thing. The right thing is rarely the easy answer, as is proved by this example. The right thing is supporting the things that you get use out of, but here supporting is the hard choice, created as such in an attempt to force morality on an immoral world.
You can call it whatever you want, just as I can call it theft, but since neither of us think the other has the limited intelligence enough to understand that, we're both just pissing in the wind. The difference being that I'm willing to put my name behind my penis.
Where are my mod points? You are spot on.
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Well, it's a little different in that case...throwing out your CD cases isn't part of the copy protection :D
Put another (probably harsher) way...you admittedly put the unlock keys for thousands of dollars of software on a thumb drive, which you lost track of, and sheets of paper, which you also lost track of. I'm not a fan of DRM, but I can't really see how this relates at all.
But I feel for you, since I do that sort of crap all the time.