But until an abuse complaint arrives you don't know if that is legit or not. Certainly, it would grab my attention and be worth keeping an eye on. But you can never be sure and that's a problem.
This proposal is about disconnecting a user on nothing more than guesswork. If the owner of an IP block complains to you that they are getting DDOSed you can verify it against your own records. However if you monitor my traffic you can't possibly tell what's legit and what is not, at least until an abuse complaint arrives.
As you said, the games people pirate are normally always games that they would not have paid for. Therefore you cannot count a pirated game as a lost sale
I have purchased over 50 DVDs that I have previously downloaded and would never have seen if it where not for the Pirate Bay. Bit-torrent trackers should be claiming royalties from the media companies for all the extra sales they send their way. Oh wait, they would need to be ethically handicapped to claim money from people who owe them nothing. Moral high ground, the Pirates.
At the end of they day a product is only worth what someone will pay for it. Studios are to stupid to understand the basic concept of marketing.
This claim that "honest people subsidize thieves" is absolute nonsense as:
I am perfectly happy for people to pirate, since I am apparently subsidising piracy it should be my say, and I say it's perfectly ok for people to pirate. I download heaps of Movies but the money I spend on DVDs makes up for that, it also makes up for allot of other people's downloads.
I still think the best solution is to put some of the game on a server. For music films and such, I don't think there is a good solution.
Movies and Music are linear, as in they go straight from start to finish. When all else fails we can always record a movie as it plays, although old skool this method is made viable by the emergence of better recording technologies such as recording directly from within the system. a.k.a not holding an external camera to a screen.
Games are always going to be harder to pirate for the simple fact that you cannot observe and record the way you can with Music and Video.
At some point (and it may have arguably already happened with some games) the consumer will be able to a get better game by NOT paying for it, simply because they will be able to find a cracked version that doesn't treat them like a criminal. (ie phoning home regularly for security, getting pissy about being reinstalled, etc.)
This already happens with movies, I always recommend people download if they just want to watch it because the pirate version is superior in that it's easier to transfer from one media player to another, so easy in fact that I never attempt ripping any of my DVDs. If I want to put my movies on the thumb drive and take them with me I just download them.
DRM is all about robbing the consumer it really is nothing more than a con trick. Do Wallmart come to your house and take the products back when they decide they no longer want you to have them?
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But until an abuse complaint arrives you don't know if that is legit or not. Certainly, it would grab my attention and be worth keeping an eye on. But you can never be sure and that's a problem.
I think disconnecting China would give SpamAssasin a holiday.
It seems that they're not doing it anymore, but I don't know the reason.
Really, I could have a pretty good guess.
How can you equate water with internet?
This proposal is about disconnecting a user on nothing more than guesswork. If the owner of an IP block complains to you that they are getting DDOSed you can verify it against your own records. However if you monitor my traffic you can't possibly tell what's legit and what is not, at least until an abuse complaint arrives.
Freedom comes with a price, but it's still allot cheaper than the alternative.
Once the infrastructure is in place anyone may come along to abuse it, you have hit the nail on the head.
My phones GSM you insensitive clod!
Switch to a decent provider, there's a reason your current one is so cheap.
But how can you tell if someone has malware?
If a movie studio says that P2P is malware then the customer is disconnected. How else do you think this will pan out?
The RIAA is not limited to America, just ask their lawyers.
Yes, but you needed friends back then. The Internet removes the need to leave the basement.
Considering the director was stupid enough to use a the company email system. Sort of like putting your head in a piranha tank.
I would love to see a Bastard Operator From Hell type show.
Sightings of large birds, such as eagles and pelicans are reported to light aircraft.
I expect something like a flock of Geese would be reported to all aircraft.
You honestly think anyone will listen to you when you are too stupid to use the "Enter/Return" key?
For me DRM boosts piracy, I will always take the superior pirate version over a crippled retail version any day.
As you said, the games people pirate are normally always games that they would not have paid for. Therefore you cannot count a pirated game as a lost sale
I have purchased over 50 DVDs that I have previously downloaded and would never have seen if it where not for the Pirate Bay. Bit-torrent trackers should be claiming royalties from the media companies for all the extra sales they send their way. Oh wait, they would need to be ethically handicapped to claim money from people who owe them nothing. Moral high ground, the Pirates.
At the end of they day a product is only worth what someone will pay for it. Studios are to stupid to understand the basic concept of marketing.
This claim that "honest people subsidize thieves" is absolute nonsense as:
I am perfectly happy for people to pirate, since I am apparently subsidising piracy it should be my say, and I say it's perfectly ok for people to pirate. I download heaps of Movies but the money I spend on DVDs makes up for that, it also makes up for allot of other people's downloads.
I still think the best solution is to put some of the game on a server. For music films and such, I don't think there is a good solution.
Movies and Music are linear, as in they go straight from start to finish. When all else fails we can always record a movie as it plays, although old skool this method is made viable by the emergence of better recording technologies such as recording directly from within the system. a.k.a not holding an external camera to a screen.
Games are always going to be harder to pirate for the simple fact that you cannot observe and record the way you can with Music and Video.
At some point (and it may have arguably already happened with some games) the consumer will be able to a get better game by NOT paying for it, simply because they will be able to find a cracked version that doesn't treat them like a criminal. (ie phoning home regularly for security, getting pissy about being reinstalled, etc.)
This already happens with movies, I always recommend people download if they just want to watch it because the pirate version is superior in that it's easier to transfer from one media player to another, so easy in fact that I never attempt ripping any of my DVDs. If I want to put my movies on the thumb drive and take them with me I just download them.
DRM is all about robbing the consumer it really is nothing more than a con trick. Do Wallmart come to your house and take the products back when they decide they no longer want you to have them?
I bet the spell checker has dictionaries installed by default as well.
With open office you have to hunt them down before your spell checker will work.
And what is "multi"touch?
All I see is a big touch screen.