Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts?

theodp writes "With all of the content that can be delivered electronically — e-books, music, apps, movies, e-gift cards, tickets — the percentage of Christmas gift giving that's digital is growing each year. However, the e-gift unwrapping user experience on Christmas morning leaves much to be desired. In addition to providing old-school mail delivery of gift cards, Amazon offers a variety of other options, including e-mailing a gift card on a specific day with or without a suggested gift, posting it on someone's Facebook Wall, or allowing you to print one for personal delivery. Another suggestion — using USB drives — harkens back to the days of burning CDs with custom playlists for last-minute gifts, but you'll be thwarted by DRM issues for lots of content. So, until Facebook introduces The Tree to save our e-gifts under until they're 'unwrapped' on Christmas morning with the other physical gifts, how do you plan on handling e-gift giving and getting?"

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E-gifts

[girlintraining]

, how do you plan on handling e-gift giving and getting?"

I pirate. Most of what's "e-gifted" is just supporting the entertainment industry; and I'm loathe to support them until they clean up their act with all the DRM crap, manipulating the market prices, and throwing people in jail for trivial crap, as well as co-opting our entire legal system and feeling entitled to profits. So... I just give people cash or socks. Because holy shit, adults love socks. And cash. Everyone does, actually.

Wrapping

[Azure Flash]

gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0001
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0002
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0003
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0004
...
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r8999
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r9000
gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r9001

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