You're being facetious, but I think you are actually completely correct. The free market only works when people are informed. If everybody had perfect knowledge of the ins and outs of the things they were buying, then perhaps we could have a free market utopia where the invisible hand of the market automatically corrected everything.
The problem is that we live in the real world and most business deals involve some kind of information asymmetry where one party (usually the seller) knows more about the product than the other (usually the buyer). Somebody will complain that it's the buyer's fault then, but people can't be expected to thoroughly research each and every transaction in their life and know everything there is to know about everything they buy. People got other shit to do.
You only got yourself to blame. For every story of a customer ignoring the good advice of a sale person, especially with regards to tech purchases, there are 10 stories of a sale person reaming a customer with some bullshit about the need for $100 gold plated, oxygen free audio cables.
Now I'm sure you're one of the good ones, but your line about crashing is pure FUD. Run painfully slowly, yes. Crash several times a day, bullshit.
Of course, this can backfire. If you "emphasize the certainty" of not doing any more business with me, why exactly should I bother fixing your problem? Either way, you're not my customer anymore. Time helping you would be better spent on people who only "might" not do any more business with me.
Because it doesn't make the DMCA not exist just because it doesn't apply to you. Therefore your comment was pointless and amounts to going "nah, nah, doesn't apply to me". Who gives a fuck about you? I wasn't talking about you. So exactly what the fuck do you think you contributed?
Don't think Kasich would be a good idea. He doesn't even have enough vision to see the value of high-speed rail from Cleveland, thru Columbus to Cincinnati. I could see him on Mars insisting that building biodomes is a waste of money.
For the record, I despise Sarah Palin and think she's a dangerous nut job, and yet I'm the one saying that I think jail is appropriate. I guess your broad generalizations don't really work out so well do they?
I'll be interest to hear exactly where you suggest we exile people to. I'd also suggest that maybe your opinion isn't the opinion of all families of victims of violent crime, re: closure.
I doubt he's going to a maximum security "pounded it in the ass" federal prison here. So no reasons taken from violent criminals. Besides, the OP wasn't saying give him some lighter (or non-custodial) sentence, he said pardon him, i.e. let him get off scot-free.
I'm not all that convinced that it even delays cracking. These days a lot of games hit torrents even before they are available for sale. The only one that might have had any impact is AC2, but I don't think anybody wants to see that strategy widely adopted.
There's one born every minute. You sir are a sucker if you believe any of that nonsense. I'm sure people at Enron and Lehman Brothers were convinced that their business would go on for "darn near eternity" too. And I'm sure when the bailiffs at are the door, the first thing they're going to be worrying about is getting that patch out for their former customers.
And you'd be breaking the law, not to mention the potential of exposing yourself to god knows what malware or viruses downloading random stuff from shady internet sites or torrents.
My Craftsman tools won't spontaneously stop working. I can legally fix my own tools or pay somebody else to do it. This same analogy has already been raised but you're too lazy to bother to see that.
Except that GTA IV didn't require GFWL registration at all. You needed the GFWL software (which is annoying enough), but you never needed to log into GFWL to play. You could create an offline account. So if Microsoft closed GFWL tomorrow (which is probably more likely than Steam closing), you could still play GTA IV.
Now, if it'd been offered in Steam and the DRM (which you cry so hard about) keeps the piracy numbers way down -- ultimately the company makes money and piracy is much lower.
I assume you have a source to cite that proves piracy is much lower on Steam DRM'ed games? Because I'm pretty sure everything on Steam is out on the torrents somewhere...
So you will be forced to break the law (DMCA)? Sure you probably won't be caught, and even if you are, I doubt anyone would actually prosecute, but it's the principle of the thing.
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You're being facetious, but I think you are actually completely correct. The free market only works when people are informed. If everybody had perfect knowledge of the ins and outs of the things they were buying, then perhaps we could have a free market utopia where the invisible hand of the market automatically corrected everything.
The problem is that we live in the real world and most business deals involve some kind of information asymmetry where one party (usually the seller) knows more about the product than the other (usually the buyer). Somebody will complain that it's the buyer's fault then, but people can't be expected to thoroughly research each and every transaction in their life and know everything there is to know about everything they buy. People got other shit to do.
And many customers got shafted in the process.
You only got yourself to blame. For every story of a customer ignoring the good advice of a sale person, especially with regards to tech purchases, there are 10 stories of a sale person reaming a customer with some bullshit about the need for $100 gold plated, oxygen free audio cables.
Now I'm sure you're one of the good ones, but your line about crashing is pure FUD. Run painfully slowly, yes. Crash several times a day, bullshit.
I know, weird right. Sounds more like something BP would do.
Of course, this can backfire. If you "emphasize the certainty" of not doing any more business with me, why exactly should I bother fixing your problem? Either way, you're not my customer anymore. Time helping you would be better spent on people who only "might" not do any more business with me.
Because it doesn't make the DMCA not exist just because it doesn't apply to you. Therefore your comment was pointless and amounts to going "nah, nah, doesn't apply to me". Who gives a fuck about you? I wasn't talking about you. So exactly what the fuck do you think you contributed?
And if Kasich was proposing something like you are suggesting, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Don't think Kasich would be a good idea. He doesn't even have enough vision to see the value of high-speed rail from Cleveland, thru Columbus to Cincinnati. I could see him on Mars insisting that building biodomes is a waste of money.
For the record, I despise Sarah Palin and think she's a dangerous nut job, and yet I'm the one saying that I think jail is appropriate. I guess your broad generalizations don't really work out so well do they?
I'll be interest to hear exactly where you suggest we exile people to. I'd also suggest that maybe your opinion isn't the opinion of all families of victims of violent crime, re: closure.
I doubt he's going to a maximum security "pounded it in the ass" federal prison here. So no reasons taken from violent criminals. Besides, the OP wasn't saying give him some lighter (or non-custodial) sentence, he said pardon him, i.e. let him get off scot-free.
So you'd have criminals just run lose on the streets then?
So are you claiming he didn't illegally access her account? This isn't a political thing, he clearly broke the law.
If he accessed your account, my account or Barack Obama's account, it'd still be a crime.
So we shouldn't put anybody in jail because it costs money?
He committed a crime, so he goes to jail. What damage is it you want to mitigate here?
I'm not all that convinced that it even delays cracking. These days a lot of games hit torrents even before they are available for sale. The only one that might have had any impact is AC2, but I don't think anybody wants to see that strategy widely adopted.
There's one born every minute. You sir are a sucker if you believe any of that nonsense. I'm sure people at Enron and Lehman Brothers were convinced that their business would go on for "darn near eternity" too. And I'm sure when the bailiffs at are the door, the first thing they're going to be worrying about is getting that patch out for their former customers.
And you'd be breaking the law, not to mention the potential of exposing yourself to god knows what malware or viruses downloading random stuff from shady internet sites or torrents.
My Craftsman tools won't spontaneously stop working. I can legally fix my own tools or pay somebody else to do it. This same analogy has already been raised but you're too lazy to bother to see that.
Please provide proof that they will, and that it will be legal under the terms of the DMCA.
Except that GTA IV didn't require GFWL registration at all. You needed the GFWL software (which is annoying enough), but you never needed to log into GFWL to play. You could create an offline account. So if Microsoft closed GFWL tomorrow (which is probably more likely than Steam closing), you could still play GTA IV.
Now, if it'd been offered in Steam and the DRM (which you cry so hard about) keeps the piracy numbers way down -- ultimately the company makes money and piracy is much lower.
I assume you have a source to cite that proves piracy is much lower on Steam DRM'ed games? Because I'm pretty sure everything on Steam is out on the torrents somewhere...
Hmmm...can't see President Palin bailing them out!
I have the CD for Homeworld, and it works fine. I played it maybe 2 years ago. It's not my fault if you can't keep your shit organized.
So you will be forced to break the law (DMCA)? Sure you probably won't be caught, and even if you are, I doubt anyone would actually prosecute, but it's the principle of the thing.