Um, normally i don't post and this would be my first time posting a reply to an article here one Slashdot.
I figured I would weigh in my two cents on this topic.
Where i tend to agree with most of what i see here, i think that most people go about bringing it up in the wrong matter towards the companies. Rather then send out e-mails, post scathing rants or down reviewing games, those against DRM should send a nicely written snail mail letter to the companies leaders or stock holders. The letter should have a well stated argument that shows that all the money they are spending on this top of the line copy protection does little to prevent people from circumventing it, a brief how-to would greatly add to this, and how it is just harming the paying customers. Any rants sent in this matter would just harm those trying to remove DRM since most people tend to disregard them, or they tend to stereotype a group of people.
Calls to Customer Service agents and e-mail are easy to ignore, and they only see the cost of having CS agents on staff. Also it passes through various levels of staffing before someone in power gets to see it. Where as if company leaders received enough real letters from their customers they might rethink their stand point on the subject and have enough power to do something about it.
I think the whole world works on a big version of the telephone game, unless you directly state your stand point to a person it gets garbled on the way to them.
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Um, normally i don't post and this would be my first time posting a reply to an article here one Slashdot.
I figured I would weigh in my two cents on this topic.
Where i tend to agree with most of what i see here, i think that most people go about bringing it up in the wrong matter towards the companies.
Rather then send out e-mails, post scathing rants or down reviewing games, those against DRM should send a nicely written snail mail letter to the companies leaders or stock holders.
The letter should have a well stated argument that shows that all the money they are spending on this top of the line copy protection does little to prevent people from circumventing it, a brief how-to would greatly add to this, and how it is just harming the paying customers.
Any rants sent in this matter would just harm those trying to remove DRM since most people tend to disregard them, or they tend to stereotype a group of people.
Calls to Customer Service agents and e-mail are easy to ignore, and they only see the cost of having CS agents on staff.
Also it passes through various levels of staffing before someone in power gets to see it.
Where as if company leaders received enough real letters from their customers they might rethink their stand point on the subject and have enough power to do something about it.
I think the whole world works on a big version of the telephone game, unless you directly state your stand point to a person it gets garbled on the way to them.