You might have a better point if not for the hundreds of thousands of people downloading these new games at any point in time. If you want them to be unable to blame piracy... stop pirating the game and do without it entirely. It's not like you'll die if you don't get to play it.
What will show them is to both not buy it nor to download it. Rampant piracy of this game will only lead them to believe they need more DRM. On the other hand, noticeably less purchases and almost zero piracy of the game at the same time will show actually them their folly since they can't blame piracy for the failure.
No, that's not how it's done. Tons of conferences have employees come based on an employer purchasing them tickets. The company tells the conference runners who they are sending and the person's identity is checked based on an agreed upon Form of ID. This is a long solved problem.
What is magic about checking a valid form of ID to verify that they are the purchaser? This may come as a shock but this 'magic' is currently used millions of times daily already.
YouTube did a full transition a year ago and has transcoded all new uploads to WebM since last April. No, the real reason they never dropped support is that their chest thumping only got yawns from the industry and no one cared. You can make all the excuses you want but they could have long since switched if they had really wanted to. Besides, On2 only cost them $144 million which is Only.5% of their yearly revenue do hardly much of an expense. Sometimes gambles just don't pay off.
The problem is that it won't work and we are wasting money and political capital on a system that after 30+ years has not shown itself to be viable on any realistic scale.
Or we could have been spending 30 years and countless billions on things that actually work versus flushing the money down the toilet on something that will never realistically work and burning diplomatic goodwill at the same time? No that's stupid and your Rush Limbaugh-esque response is clearly what was meant.
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Yes, books that they had no right to sell in the first place due to legal issues..
You might have a better point if not for the hundreds of thousands of people downloading these new games at any point in time. If you want them to be unable to blame piracy... stop pirating the game and do without it entirely. It's not like you'll die if you don't get to play it.
What will show them is to both not buy it nor to download it. Rampant piracy of this game will only lead them to believe they need more DRM. On the other hand, noticeably less purchases and almost zero piracy of the game at the same time will show actually them their folly since they can't blame piracy for the failure.
But...but I'm owed this game! How dare you tell me to just not get it rather than pirate it!!!
And by 'worthy case' you mean he'll be 'laughed out of court and will have his case dismissed', right?
No it doesn't, but then the price is not made up purely of distribution and replication costs.
Because not everybody wants to rewrite all existing libraries into Go to use them?
Yay! A bunch of no-names (with very few exceptions) are using it! Great success!
IE 10 PP5 implements the websockets RFC.
No, that's not how it's done. Tons of conferences have employees come based on an employer purchasing them tickets. The company tells the conference runners who they are sending and the person's identity is checked based on an agreed upon Form of ID. This is a long solved problem.
Link the ticket to the company and have the employee provide credentials to show they are a current employee. How was that hard to come up with?
What is magic about checking a valid form of ID to verify that they are the purchaser? This may come as a shock but this 'magic' is currently used millions of times daily already.
YouTube did a full transition a year ago and has transcoded all new uploads to WebM since last April. No, the real reason they never dropped support is that their chest thumping only got yawns from the industry and no one cared. You can make all the excuses you want but they could have long since switched if they had really wanted to. Besides, On2 only cost them $144 million which is Only .5% of their yearly revenue do hardly much of an expense. Sometimes gambles just don't pay off.
And? HTML5 has been in working draft for more than 3 years.
What they think is a better standard.
Yeah because sliding the backing off of the phone and sliding in a new SIM card, about 10 seconds at worst, is just so much trouble.
Yeah how selfish of them to give it away royalty-free. Bastards are totally only in it for themselves'
And yet Kazakhstan has a national anthem which pretty much invalidates your claims.
76% of them, yes.
Off topic? Their post is a Borat reference about Kazakhi wine.
They're a French company...
Your post is so cute. You actually think they care.
Translation: I still have no arguments beyond ad homs. This system has never and will never work despite 30 years of protestations otherwise.
The problem is that it won't work and we are wasting money and political capital on a system that after 30+ years has not shown itself to be viable on any realistic scale.
Or we could have been spending 30 years and countless billions on things that actually work versus flushing the money down the toilet on something that will never realistically work and burning diplomatic goodwill at the same time? No that's stupid and your Rush Limbaugh-esque response is clearly what was meant.