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Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."
The only difference between this scheme and what is used in every single other Blizzard game you can still buy is that the activation is online. If online is too hard for you, I'd suggest suicide. You'd be doing yourself and those around you a favor.
Actually, now that I think about it, even the current games verify that the serial code is not already used, so there is zero difference.
You are simply too stupid for your own good.
You replied to a complete and utter moron who has absolutely no ability to reason. Chances are that someone actually wrote the post for him because of his inability to understand the world around him.
Are you drunk? Freeloading? THERE IS NO LOSS! None. Period. It’s a copy. It’s bitspace.
If those fucking idiots who gave away the information (=software) would have enabled their brains for even a fucking single second, they would not have passed it on without getting something in return, since they would have known that when you pass it on, you lose all control and power over it forever, and can not ever again make any fucking demands whatsovever. It’s too late. Cry me a river. Boohoo. You were and idiot, if you expected that you could just tell everyone your secret, and then later everyone would give you money for it when he hears about it, nice and orderly.
Also, you have just proven that you are already a brainwashed MAFIAA zombie drone by using their FUD wording (“pirate”), and insulted pretty much everyone on planet earth except for your criminal friends.
So fuck off and please shoot yourself, drone! Or I will do it!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
This only hurts paying customers who don't read the requirements on the box before they buy it.
I suspect you are one of those people who are too stupid to do so.
Piracy is stealing. Anyone who thinks not is a fucking retard.
"Identity theft isn't stealing, because I'm not actually depriving someone of something, just taking their intellectual property (identity) and using it."