If more DRM = More Sales, lock the game down hard
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Don't allow users to even see the screen without making receiving a certified letter from the publisher with a secret code. Don't let the user even play the full game. Force them to download large chunks of it from your server after releasing only half of it on disc.
Store integral parts of every level on a master server that can only be accessed by pausing the game and entering the secret code.
I think you are speaking more to the de-education of the masses than to democracy. History has shown that every political system, hampered by human nature, devolves into near-totalitarianism. Everything sounded like a good idea...at first.
Politics always seems to be more black and white when tyrants are literally bleeding.
This survey is a pretty big pill to swallow. I am pretty sure that nearly all the non-IT people I know would have no idea what Open Office was, and I'm sure there are many others who would feel the same here on Slashdot.
Of course, anecdotal evidence isn't a great benchmark, but come on...
It seems that a person who couldn't math the virtually infinite funding of the RIAA would lose even if they win, having to defend endlessly against such suits.
Although I'm not a huge fan of bicycle riding myself, it's good to see people able to find inexpensive and efficient transportation. It won't work where I live (not urbanized enough), but it's an excellent solution for big cities, which is where most of the fossil fuels get burned anyway.
Hmm...that kinda sucks that they can waive the eighth amendment rights of a citizen just because it's not the government getting the money. I suppose they will also allow the RIAA--in addition to collecting excessive fines--to also inflict cruel and unusual punishment since they are not the government.
Sooner or later everyone in the world will have heard music that they weren't entitled to hear, or seem movies that they weren't entitled to see, or read books that they weren't entitled to read.
At that point, it's going to be hard to convince a jury people that a multimillion dollar corporation should be able to bankrupt a single mother with children because they liked music.
Actually, they're cutting off their own nose to spite pirates.
This holy war against pirates needs to end. They think that every downloaded game is a lost sale, and that every single person who can't pirate a game will buy it.
Do they honestly think that if they lock down a game to the point of near-unplayability that it will magically result in millions of dollars in sales?
We are nearing the technological threshold in which we can do many (and someday all) of the things in 1984, Equilibrium, Minonrity Report, and many other similar stories.
Monitoring technology will have a "point of no return" where getting our governments to revert the laws and give us back our privacy rights will not come without a greivous amount of bloodshed.
Before down modding, hear me out. Haiti has no feasible way out of their current situation. But the one thing that would truly pull them out of this mire as quickly as possible is probably forbidden by a jillion UN rules. But it would work. They could NOT be in a worse situation than they are with their current government.
Can't someone just take Haiti? Surely conquerors showing up with promises of food and infrastructure building would be preferred to their current government.
A government which lacks the power to govern also lacks the right to do the same.
This is an obvious pump and dump scheme, unless they have somehow unlocked technology previously unseen and unknown by mankind, and have done so for the purpose of playing video games.
I definitely can see how politicians could think like this. Now if we could only convince them that realy people can lose their livelihoods in favor of corporations--simply for watching movies they weren't entitled to watch, or reading books they weren't entitled to read--and this is wrong.
If IP owners are going to be such absolute children about this, maybe we should revert back to the old law.
It was once legally agreed upon that 14+14 years was an adequate amount of time to commercially exploit your copyright. With today's digital distribution and rapid-fire publishing houses, does it really need to be a HUNDRED years?
Not sure how this is offtopic. I'm commenting on the correlation between sales and quality in the topic title. It's unfortunate that I have to spell this out for someone.
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Don't allow users to even see the screen without making receiving a certified letter from the publisher with a secret code. Don't let the user even play the full game. Force them to download large chunks of it from your server after releasing only half of it on disc.
Store integral parts of every level on a master server that can only be accessed by pausing the game and entering the secret code.
It will sell trillions of copies!
I think you are speaking more to the de-education of the masses than to democracy. History has shown that every political system, hampered by human nature, devolves into near-totalitarianism. Everything sounded like a good idea...at first.
Politics always seems to be more black and white when tyrants are literally bleeding.
That statement was made tongue-in-cheek. No need to flame.
This survey is a pretty big pill to swallow. I am pretty sure that nearly all the non-IT people I know would have no idea what Open Office was, and I'm sure there are many others who would feel the same here on Slashdot.
Of course, anecdotal evidence isn't a great benchmark, but come on...
And those new pirates are all people who were former Macmillan customers/buyers.
It seems that a person who couldn't math the virtually infinite funding of the RIAA would lose even if they win, having to defend endlessly against such suits.
I like this news very much.
Although I'm not a huge fan of bicycle riding myself, it's good to see people able to find inexpensive and efficient transportation. It won't work where I live (not urbanized enough), but it's an excellent solution for big cities, which is where most of the fossil fuels get burned anyway.
Would pretty much suck if it were Vogons.
Hmm...that kinda sucks that they can waive the eighth amendment rights of a citizen just because it's not the government getting the money. I suppose they will also allow the RIAA--in addition to collecting excessive fines--to also inflict cruel and unusual punishment since they are not the government.
Sooner or later everyone in the world will have heard music that they weren't entitled to hear, or seem movies that they weren't entitled to see, or read books that they weren't entitled to read.
At that point, it's going to be hard to convince a jury people that a multimillion dollar corporation should be able to bankrupt a single mother with children because they liked music.
While cartoon porn isn't really my thing, I hate to see the civil rights of a real person deprived to protect an imaginary person.
Data is information. Taking in information you did not pay to take in is not stealing.
If you write down the words of a song and post them to your myspace (which is copyright infringement), what have you "stolen"?
If you get a tattoo of Mickey Mouse on your leg without paying a royalty, that is copyright infringement. What have you stolen?
Piracy = theft.
Agreed. Also, assault and battery = murder
Exceeding the speed limit = rape
Public intoxication = distributing child pornography
Any other minor crimes that we should rename to more serious ones for no good reason?
Actually, they're cutting off their own nose to spite pirates.
This holy war against pirates needs to end. They think that every downloaded game is a lost sale, and that every single person who can't pirate a game will buy it.
Do they honestly think that if they lock down a game to the point of near-unplayability that it will magically result in millions of dollars in sales?
We are nearing the technological threshold in which we can do many (and someday all) of the things in 1984, Equilibrium, Minonrity Report, and many other similar stories.
Monitoring technology will have a "point of no return" where getting our governments to revert the laws and give us back our privacy rights will not come without a greivous amount of bloodshed.
If you're going to rehash old franchises, this game is the way to do it.
Now I hope they'll give us a high-resolution, all-new, top-down Zelda game in the caliber of Link to the Past and Link's Awakening.
I'd like to let everyone know that Mars is full of gold just under the crust, and every planet around Proxima Centauri is rich with uranium.
Get that space program moving.
I would LOVE if a corporation could commit crimes so egregious that they could be chopped to pieces and auctioned off.
Then corporations would stop treating fines and settlements as just another "cost of doing business".
Some companies break serious laws on purpose because they will profit more than the fine.
Before down modding, hear me out. Haiti has no feasible way out of their current situation. But the one thing that would truly pull them out of this mire as quickly as possible is probably forbidden by a jillion UN rules. But it would work. They could NOT be in a worse situation than they are with their current government.
Can't someone just take Haiti? Surely conquerors showing up with promises of food and infrastructure building would be preferred to their current government.
A government which lacks the power to govern also lacks the right to do the same.
This is an obvious pump and dump scheme, unless they have somehow unlocked technology previously unseen and unknown by mankind, and have done so for the purpose of playing video games.
I definitely can see how politicians could think like this. Now if we could only convince them that realy people can lose their livelihoods in favor of corporations--simply for watching movies they weren't entitled to watch, or reading books they weren't entitled to read--and this is wrong.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA who am I kidding?
If IP owners are going to be such absolute children about this, maybe we should revert back to the old law.
It was once legally agreed upon that 14+14 years was an adequate amount of time to commercially exploit your copyright. With today's digital distribution and rapid-fire publishing houses, does it really need to be a HUNDRED years?
I do believe that stalking a home-bound loser would make the stalker collapse into an infinitely dense (and sad) singularity of loserdom.
Not sure how this is offtopic. I'm commenting on the correlation between sales and quality in the topic title. It's unfortunate that I have to spell this out for someone.