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Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Out Part of North America Until EU Release
An anonymous reader writes "On the whole, Battlefield 4 had a reasonable launch. The have clearly learned from their past experiences with Battlefield 3 and, more notably, SimCity. Still, some customers are unable to access the game (until, presumably, October 30th at 7PM EDT, 39 hours after launch) because they are incorrectly flagged by region-locking. Do regional release dates help diminish all the work EA has been putting into Origin with their refund policy and live technical support? Should they just take our money and deliver the service before we change our minds?"
Yeah, when people don't act the way I want them to act I feel justified in stealing from them too. You know another way to "bypass their control"? Ignore their fucking games. Apparently they still control you enough to make you desire their products so badly.
They've always been around. They're the ones who believe they're entitled to government-enforced monopolies over ideas.
Ignorance is a choice
The primary difference is that theft implies you're taking something away, when the most likely reality is that they are just continuing to get what they were never going to get (for whatever reason - because you can, because you disagree with the drm, whatever)
Yes, both are wrong. But there are vastly different levels of wrong, and in this case there's not a small difference in level. You should at least acknowledge that, even if you don't believe it excuses the behavior.
Well, unless you're one of those crazies who thinks jaywalkers deserve prison sentences - but I don't think you are.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Are you stupid, or have you just been living under a rock?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
And after doing this a few times, wouldn't a reasonable and intelegent person just skip the first step that they knew would only cause frustration?
Someone whose actions are constrained not by ethics or morals but instead by what he can get away with is what we call a sociopath.
No, as a reasonable and intelligent person I avoid that company's products.
And yet you have stolen something. You're just too damn nearsighted to realize that what you stole wasn't the work, as the creator still obviously has his own copy, but what you have stolen is the creator's right to choose how, when, and where to publicize his work.