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Free Games As a Solution To Game Piracy
christ, jesus H writes "PC gaming may not be dying, but it is in a state of flux. We're seeing developers and publishers blaming piracy for all the ills of PC gaming, but attempts to rein in pirates with the help of DRM only annoys and mobilizes the legitimate customers of your games. The solution? According to David Perry of Shiny Games, PC games are going to be free." (And if anyone has a favorite replacement term for "piracy," in the context of electronic copyright violation, please suggest it below.)
Free as in: all you have to do is buy it dinner first.
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
I always considered 'Eternal Borrower' or 'Stonking great Thief' as accurate ways of naming 'pirates.'
Kinda like when I screwed your wife while you were at work. You could still use her, so there is nothing wrong with it. Me and the twelve other guys all agree on this.
Other people's games... often hit and run.
Hit and run games are fun, too. Now hit and miss games I could understand not liking. ;)
Developers: We can use your help.
Not a very good analogy. The wife would now have the herpes you gave her, which would make her less fun in that particular aspect of the relationship.
Harold
Kinda like when I screwed your wife while you were at work. You could still use her, so it wasn't stealing
Fixed that for you.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
...you only need to take a look at the Wii.
Must... resist... out... of... context... joke... and... talking... like... Shatner...
"I've spent my whole life figuring out crazy ways to do things. It'll work." -- Montgomery Scott, "Relics"
"Free Beer as a solution to Drunk Driving"
I think you unintentionally found the replacement for the term "pirate".
it is MUCH easier to buy off bureaucrats and politicians than ten thousand pissed off freemen customers
The Fremen fought CHOAM and the Sppacing Guild. Perfect name for copyright infringers!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
We could equate it with boarding a ship at sea, taking its cargo, murdering its crew, and leaving the ship to burn while we sail away.
Oh.
"Using someone else's wifi is stealing, "
only if you don't have authorization. If the system lets you in by design, then you have authorization.
The incoming house analogy will inevitably show how little the person knows about how computers communicate.
Stealing wifi is like dropping a house on a witch. It will make strange looking midgets dance around with glee, and get her sister to send flying monkeys after you.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
hit and miss? is that like a Schroedinger's Game? or a Quantum Game?
Now, hit OR miss games *I* could understand not liking...
I often go into the store and start eating the food off the shelves. When they tell me to stop, I just tell them that according to Samuel Gompers, there's no inherent difference to the food in the store and the food on my shelf, so how can they expect me to know the difference? Then I eat the security guards, under the misapprehension that they are also food. I think it works out best for everyone, in the end.
hit and miss ? Is that like run and stand still ?
Schrodinger's Cat Baseball. Although it still doesn't work quite right when it's out of the box.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
Citation please. If you're going to state that back ups is a euphemism for piracy, you're going to have to back that up with something.
Is backing up one's argument also considered piracy, or is it just a euphemism for piracy, or is it actually just a dysphemism for citing one's sources about backing up piracy?
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"Children may not be dying, but they are in a state of flux. We're seeing parents and pediatricians blaming child rape for all the ills of children, but attempts to rein in rapists with the help of DRM only annoys and mobilizes the legitimate sexual partners of your children. The solution? According to David Perry of Shiny Games, children are going to be free to fuck."
Personally I never liked pirates, therefore I propose ninjacy as a replacement term.
I agree that the "no return if opened" policy is hurting consumers
I used to tend to steam my PC software open when possible. Not really steam, just get the glue weakened and soft so it'd peel off. Open, install, play, beat in like 4 hours... close back up and return. A game needs to take a week :(
Console games shrink wrap so this is a non-option.
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I think you've been playing too much Nethack.