If these fucking stupid ass lawmakers decide to be fucking assholes and ban a combination of letters, soon people will just invent another god damn combination of letters to mean the exact same motherfuckin thing. Given enough time every combination of 6 or less letters will be banned.
Seriously though, not only is this nonsense, but it opens the floodgates for a lot of things. People always scoff at me when I get outraged by city and state governments trying to impose laws to enact dress codes or ban words. But if you give the government an inch they'll take a mile. First they ban "asshole", what stops them from banning "idiot". First they ban men with boxers showing and women with thong straps in sight, what stops them from banning tank tops or skirts more than 4 inches above the knee? It's not the governments job to watch our filthy mouths for us or to play the fucking fashion police. (had to slip one more obscenity in there)
Theaters and restaurants will never do this for one simple reason, we still have all of our rights. And when our grandmother is dying, and we miss the call because Red Lobster decided it wasn't worth disturbing the other customers over, they could easily have a 6 or 7 figure lawsuit on their hands.
To be honest, DRM usually::ONLY:: bites those who buy the game in the ass. You mentioned Spore and Mercenaries 2. I had my pirated copy of Spore before it was even released in stores, and my friend has been playing his pirated copy of Mercenaries 2 for a few weeks now, so I have to ask, what the hell does DRM actually do except inconvenience paying customers? It certainly is not stopping me from downloading their games, or even slowing down the rate at which piracy groups post their releases.
The most DRM may accomplish is stopping one computer novice from sticking the DVD in his drive and making a copy for his friend, and they've had fairly effective methods of preventing this for about a decade now that don't gimp legitimate copies of games.
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If these fucking stupid ass lawmakers decide to be fucking assholes and ban a combination of letters, soon people will just invent another god damn combination of letters to mean the exact same motherfuckin thing. Given enough time every combination of 6 or less letters will be banned.
Seriously though, not only is this nonsense, but it opens the floodgates for a lot of things. People always scoff at me when I get outraged by city and state governments trying to impose laws to enact dress codes or ban words. But if you give the government an inch they'll take a mile. First they ban "asshole", what stops them from banning "idiot". First they ban men with boxers showing and women with thong straps in sight, what stops them from banning tank tops or skirts more than 4 inches above the knee? It's not the governments job to watch our filthy mouths for us or to play the fucking fashion police. (had to slip one more obscenity in there)
Theaters and restaurants will never do this for one simple reason, we still have all of our rights. And when our grandmother is dying, and we miss the call because Red Lobster decided it wasn't worth disturbing the other customers over, they could easily have a 6 or 7 figure lawsuit on their hands.
To be honest, DRM usually ::ONLY:: bites those who buy the game in the ass. You mentioned Spore and Mercenaries 2. I had my pirated copy of Spore before it was even released in stores, and my friend has been playing his pirated copy of Mercenaries 2 for a few weeks now, so I have to ask, what the hell does DRM actually do except inconvenience paying customers? It certainly is not stopping me from downloading their games, or even slowing down the rate at which piracy groups post their releases.
The most DRM may accomplish is stopping one computer novice from sticking the DVD in his drive and making a copy for his friend, and they've had fairly effective methods of preventing this for about a decade now that don't gimp legitimate copies of games.