DRM: a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices. A CD check determines whether an original copy of game media is present, to ensure that the game has not been distributed illegally. Would you agree that, had the game failed a CD check, that it "impose[s] limitations on the usage of digital content"?
Serial numbers became part of DRM when they were locked to online accounts or part of a larger DRM scheme (Hardware ID hashes etc).
I'm talking about Steam shutting down. TThe distribution platform. This may well be the result of Valve going bust, meaning no more Half Life, Portal etc. but the other publishers who use Steam may well be still in business. If Steam didn't unlock the content I licensed from them, I'd expect the publisher to. If they didn't, they can expect to lose me as a customer. Further, as they have effectively taken my money and failed to provide a service, they can expect me to take their products / services without payment until I am satisfied that an equilibrium is reached.
tl;dr: Evil begets evil. They lie in the bed they make.
By "a background in geology" I mean I went on some field trips in college where I got chucked off an SSSI almost daily and came back to the hotel hammered every evening. True geologist style.
I won't see it if it's in 3D. 3D works by picking the focus of the scene and rendering it so that if you are focusing on that exact same point, the whole world around you looks face-meltingly pretty.
I don't stare at the centre of the screen when watching movies.
When I went to see Avatar IN 3D!11112331qwes I came out with a headache I've not experienced since the morning after my 21st birthday party. In almost every scene there was a piece of wildlife or technology that looked damn pretty or impressive, and I wanted to look at it. My own depth perception kicks in, and I spend the next 10 secondswaiting for my right eye to stop spasming. That didn't make the outing particularly enjoyable for me.
In short, I'm sure it's lovely but it doesn't work for me.
You'd be in the minority. The judge (in the UK, at least, having been one a jury) instructs the jury members that they are there to assess facts, and the barristers / judge are there to assess the law.
Good luck convincing the 11 knuckle-draggers you'll inevitably be sequestered with that you have some other option than looking at a guy's shoes and deciding that he "looks like he did it."
They can be safe in the knowledge that if they don't release the games that I have bought from them if the Steam service is discontinued for any reason that the original game developer had best open it themselves, or they'll find themselves with one less (quite lucrative) customer.
They can either play nice, or take more of a hit. I know it's drops in the ocean, but x million Steam subscribers is a hell of a customer base to lose.
I would call that DRM. It's not "cripple your DVD writer, install a backdoor" hoseyoursystemware, but it's still restriction on use of software you've bought.
Cracked version is fine, if required. I bought the game legally (along with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of others), so if Steam fails the cracks will come.
And everyone who bought into the new distribution model will all of a sudden stop buying. Lose-lose.
That's fine. The security measures used to restrict the unauthorised abuse of my machine may cause me to not give game publishers my money. This may conflict with their shareholders expectations of "return on investment" and their dividends / bonuses.
Give it a week, and some enterprising fellow more intelligent than me will have a local emulator for the authentication server and an entry to add to your HOSTS file.
Or, just strip the offending code out of the executable.
... along with a widely publicised promise to unlock all content should Steam be discontinued / Valve go under.
The best way to convert me from a paying customer back into a pirate is to cripple the stuff I bought in good faith. I hope all game publishers realise that.
It seems any game, even if it's $0.99 has a five hour demo and is DRM-free and done by a nobel-peace prize winning game design legend, will be cracked and distributed on day one by some self righteous teenager anyway.
If Chuck Norris compiled the bag of excrement that is Norton, it would be a much better piece of software. No false positives, no slowdown, no invasive abuse of network drivers. It would just set the desktop background to a picture of Chuck giving a roundhouse kick to AIDS with the slogan
which is why a many-layered approach to security is necessary
So you're saying that I should run my iPhone in an emulator on an OS/X installation running in a Parallels image hosted on a VirtualBox machine running Windows 7, in turn running on a Beowulf cluster of Linux boxen?
This applies when doing 90 on a freeway, yeah? Better advice is "Put it in neutral, put your hazard lights on, steer to the hard shoulder / side of the road, break safely.
Any aggressive change in speed or direction should be avoided AT ALL COSTS no matter where you are. What you need to to is maintain composure and keep control of your vehicle. As soon as your wheels lock, you've lost it, and on a high speed road a lot of people could die.
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Ok, here's a walkthrough of why you're wrong.
DRM: a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices.
A CD check determines whether an original copy of game media is present, to ensure that the game has not been distributed illegally. Would you agree that, had the game failed a CD check, that it "impose[s] limitations on the usage of digital content"?
Serial numbers became part of DRM when they were locked to online accounts or part of a larger DRM scheme (Hardware ID hashes etc).
I'm talking about Steam shutting down. TThe distribution platform. This may well be the result of Valve going bust, meaning no more Half Life, Portal etc. but the other publishers who use Steam may well be still in business. If Steam didn't unlock the content I licensed from them, I'd expect the publisher to. If they didn't, they can expect to lose me as a customer. Further, as they have effectively taken my money and failed to provide a service, they can expect me to take their products / services without payment until I am satisfied that an equilibrium is reached.
tl;dr: Evil begets evil. They lie in the bed they make.
Specifically footwear and small-arms ammunition, the latter delivered at velocity.
I have a background in geology, not engineering.
By "a background in geology" I mean I went on some field trips in college where I got chucked off an SSSI almost daily and came back to the hotel hammered every evening. True geologist style.
I won't see it if it's in 3D. 3D works by picking the focus of the scene and rendering it so that if you are focusing on that exact same point, the whole world around you looks face-meltingly pretty.
I don't stare at the centre of the screen when watching movies.
When I went to see Avatar IN 3D!11112331qwes I came out with a headache I've not experienced since the morning after my 21st birthday party. In almost every scene there was a piece of wildlife or technology that looked damn pretty or impressive, and I wanted to look at it. My own depth perception kicks in, and I spend the next 10 secondswaiting for my right eye to stop spasming. That didn't make the outing particularly enjoyable for me.
In short, I'm sure it's lovely but it doesn't work for me.
The choice was Feyd-Rautha or The Beast Rabban.
I'm happy that I got to keep hold of my lunch.
+6.
Here's something you'll enjoy, then; There are no wierding modules in the book. The Fremen fight with knives carved from the teeth of sandworms.
Mind-rending, isn't it...
You'd be in the minority. The judge (in the UK, at least, having been one a jury) instructs the jury members that they are there to assess facts, and the barristers / judge are there to assess the law.
Good luck convincing the 11 knuckle-draggers you'll inevitably be sequestered with that you have some other option than looking at a guy's shoes and deciding that he "looks like he did it."
I don't need documentation.
They can be safe in the knowledge that if they don't release the games that I have bought from them if the Steam service is discontinued for any reason that the original game developer had best open it themselves, or they'll find themselves with one less (quite lucrative) customer.
They can either play nice, or take more of a hit. I know it's drops in the ocean, but x million Steam subscribers is a hell of a customer base to lose.
I would call that DRM. It's not "cripple your DVD writer, install a backdoor" hoseyoursystemware, but it's still restriction on use of software you've bought.
Cracked version is fine, if required. I bought the game legally (along with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of others), so if Steam fails the cracks will come.
And everyone who bought into the new distribution model will all of a sudden stop buying. Lose-lose.
I hear that upgrades to quantum brain function is only ten years away!
That depends. How many Werther's Originals are left in the packet on the table next to you?
Ha! It's a trick question! Only old people have Werther's Originals!
Now it goes all the way to 11.
That's fine. The security measures used to restrict the unauthorised abuse of my machine may cause me to not give game publishers my money. This may conflict with their shareholders expectations of "return on investment" and their dividends / bonuses.
Give it a week, and some enterprising fellow more intelligent than me will have a local emulator for the authentication server and an entry to add to your HOSTS file.
Or, just strip the offending code out of the executable.
... along with a widely publicised promise to unlock all content should Steam be discontinued / Valve go under.
The best way to convert me from a paying customer back into a pirate is to cripple the stuff I bought in good faith. I hope all game publishers realise that.
You were allowed to return a PC game for a refund?
Ah, it was released 6 years ago.
It seems any game, even if it's $0.99 has a five hour demo and is DRM-free and done by a nobel-peace prize winning game design legend, will be cracked and distributed on day one by some self righteous teenager anyway.
A DRM-free game doesn't need a crack.
Just pointing that out...
If Chuck Norris compiled the bag of excrement that is Norton, it would be a much better piece of software. No false positives, no slowdown, no invasive abuse of network drivers. It would just set the desktop background to a picture of Chuck giving a roundhouse kick to AIDS with the slogan
VIRUSES: GTFO
I mean come on! Let's be sensible about this.
which is why a many-layered approach to security is necessary
So you're saying that I should run my iPhone in an emulator on an OS/X installation running in a Parallels image hosted on a VirtualBox machine running Windows 7, in turn running on a Beowulf cluster of Linux boxen?
I can't imagine it fitting in a jacket pocket.
Exactly, and the scanner in the video had trouble picking identifying his mobile phone.
He posted the very same information in a Slashdot post in November. User ID SteveWoz.
This applies when doing 90 on a freeway, yeah? Better advice is "Put it in neutral, put your hazard lights on, steer to the hard shoulder / side of the road, break safely.
Any aggressive change in speed or direction should be avoided AT ALL COSTS no matter where you are. What you need to to is maintain composure and keep control of your vehicle. As soon as your wheels lock, you've lost it, and on a high speed road a lot of people could die.