We are already at the point where the punishment for copying left any semblance of sanity. What do you suggest? Death penalty for copying? We are already at multiple years in prison. Something is wrong with a society when the penalty for copying a game where you rob a bank is punished more severely than actually robbing a bank.
Ponder how many things are free or cheap, and then ponder how many people are willing to pay, or pay a premium, for getting it more conveniently. Yes, convenience is a commodity in our society and it has a value. Getting crap delivered to you instead of having to go to the store, pick it up and carry it home is at the very least a reason to pick the delivery service over the one that doesn't deliver, and most likely even a good enough reason to pay more than you would at the place where you'd have to pick it up yourself.
The same applies to the convenience of "just works". People are very willing to pay for the convenience of not having to jump through various hoops to crack this and copy, move and alter that, rewrite this or that registry entry, and instead just click something and it works.
If you need proof, look at Apple. Then look at any Linux distribution of your liking. What exactly IS the difference? Convenience.
This does work for Steam. But often, it does not work for a lot of AAA titles. Why? Because they lack convenience! If I have to be "always on" and the Servers cannot be reached at launch, that's the opposite of "just works" convenience. If, on the other hand, the cracked version is easy to install and "just works" because it doesn't give a fuck about the Servers not working, that IS convenience. And that, not the price, is then the reason why people give the legal copy the finger and go for the rip.
I don't know about your country, but in mine, for transgressions being elevated to "crime" started, something called "public interest" has to be at stake. With murder, there is public interest. Because everyone has a life and doesn't want it been taken. With robbery, there is public interest. Because everything has something that belongs to him and doesn't want taken. With physical injury, there is public interest. Because everyone has a body and doesn't want it harmed.
As soon as everyone has something copyrighted, we'll talk about the public interest in it.
As someone who has been on all three sides of the fence I can tell you with some credibility that the sales you lost are, relatively speaking, few. The question is not how many have copied, the question is rather how many of those that did copy would have bought instead if they could not copy.
For many it's a bit like the free sample at the grocery. Sure they take a free sample of that wasabi cheese on white bread, but actually buy some?
If you think that YouTube getting "free" aid is a problem, think again. Ponder for a moment who would willingly become a "free" moderator. Well? Right. Someone who has a reason to do so. The perks? Peanuts.
The ability to dictate what is and isn't "appropriate"? Bingo.
I predict that before the PR-note is out that the first moderators have taken the helm, we'll already have a juicy edit war on our hands. Some controversial video poster will be flagged "inappropriate" by his or her opponents, only to get an immediate response by the other side for their controversial figure. In the end, it will depend on who can field more armchair revolutionaries and opinion dictators.
Why limit it to nation states? Anyone who wants to push their viewpoint and squelch opposing ones will jump onto this chance to silence the opposition.
Seriously, anyone giving a shit about higher resolution? What I care about is sensible gameplay and fun. You remember fun? Try to put it back into games and I'll bother buying some again.
Really did. Awesome hardware, very solid, very long lasting, and you could get spare parts for... well, ever.
Then Lenovo took over, and... well, the aluminum turned to plastic and looking for spare would usually be met with the request to spare them the hassle and wouldn't you rather want a new one...
Sorry. I loved your notebooks, IBM. I really did. I had them for nearly 20 years. But I only had one Lenovo. And it's not looking like there will be another one littering my home.
If that borders on stupid, I have to ask from which side.
CAN was never supposed to be a user space bus. When it was created, security was simply a non-issue because back then to get access to it, you'd pretty much have had to dismantle the whole car. Stealing it was heaps easier. And it's also not like with TCP where you can simply stack TLS on top of it, it doesn't work that way.
Leave the CAN bus alone! And don't even get the idea to mix user space electronics, where the idiot on the wheel can plug his insecure junk in, with mission critical controls for steering, brakes, fuel ignition or driver safety!
I could imagine it was a bit like an engineer pondering "Hey, I know something! If we implement an IM where people can communicate anonymously and without the fear that their communication is recorded, we could get a ton of security conscious people to use it! And there isn't one like that right now, at least not in the public view, every other IM has of course all the features I'd want to implement, but they all also include corporate snooping."
This went up and down the various offices, changed hands, went from one table to the next, until one of the higher ups saw it and said "That's a great idea, and let's add corporate snooping so we can monetize it".
And so the 99th IM with exactly the same "feature" set nobody wants was created.
Now I can replace myself with a very small script. And be social despite being an antisocial asshole who can't be assed to spend half a minute reading a message and ten more seconds replying to it.
If both people have that app, they can essentially let their phones be friends and needn't even know that they befriended each other. Or you can stay "in touch" with a friend without all the hassle of human-human interaction, just let your phone stay in contact with his phone to create the illusion that you still talk to each other, kinda like an old married couple.
First fundamental problem: It's viruses. In English at least. In Latin, it would not be viri either because virus is neuter and only masculine nouns on -us become -i in the second declination. Virus is of the third declination (neuter). Another example is opus. It becomes opera. Not opi. Opi may put you to sleep similar to many Opera, but it is still something different.
The Latin plural of virus is vira, by the way. Viri would be the genitive singular. Virii is... probably a problem with your keyboard, I don't know.
This cerebral masturbation aside, you cannot solve stupid. People executing arbitrary programs is the problem. You can tell them a million times "the dancing pig application might cause harm to your computer, it sure looks suspicious!" and they'll still click ok. The user is going to choose dancing pigs over security every time.
Well, probably you can get that cure for free... if you agree to get some electrodes planted into your brain. What they do? Why would you want to know, the cure (and the electrodes!) are FREE!
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We are already at the point where the punishment for copying left any semblance of sanity. What do you suggest? Death penalty for copying? We are already at multiple years in prison. Something is wrong with a society when the penalty for copying a game where you rob a bank is punished more severely than actually robbing a bank.
Ponder how many things are free or cheap, and then ponder how many people are willing to pay, or pay a premium, for getting it more conveniently. Yes, convenience is a commodity in our society and it has a value. Getting crap delivered to you instead of having to go to the store, pick it up and carry it home is at the very least a reason to pick the delivery service over the one that doesn't deliver, and most likely even a good enough reason to pay more than you would at the place where you'd have to pick it up yourself.
The same applies to the convenience of "just works". People are very willing to pay for the convenience of not having to jump through various hoops to crack this and copy, move and alter that, rewrite this or that registry entry, and instead just click something and it works.
If you need proof, look at Apple. Then look at any Linux distribution of your liking. What exactly IS the difference? Convenience.
This does work for Steam. But often, it does not work for a lot of AAA titles. Why? Because they lack convenience! If I have to be "always on" and the Servers cannot be reached at launch, that's the opposite of "just works" convenience. If, on the other hand, the cracked version is easy to install and "just works" because it doesn't give a fuck about the Servers not working, that IS convenience. And that, not the price, is then the reason why people give the legal copy the finger and go for the rip.
I don't know about your country, but in mine, for transgressions being elevated to "crime" started, something called "public interest" has to be at stake. With murder, there is public interest. Because everyone has a life and doesn't want it been taken. With robbery, there is public interest. Because everything has something that belongs to him and doesn't want taken. With physical injury, there is public interest. Because everyone has a body and doesn't want it harmed.
As soon as everyone has something copyrighted, we'll talk about the public interest in it.
As someone who has been on all three sides of the fence I can tell you with some credibility that the sales you lost are, relatively speaking, few. The question is not how many have copied, the question is rather how many of those that did copy would have bought instead if they could not copy.
For many it's a bit like the free sample at the grocery. Sure they take a free sample of that wasabi cheese on white bread, but actually buy some?
IIRC Steam has a "I got this game for free" checkbox with their reviews? Is that for decoration only?
Wow, consoles can do that now? I've really been outta the loop!
If you think that YouTube getting "free" aid is a problem, think again. Ponder for a moment who would willingly become a "free" moderator. Well? Right. Someone who has a reason to do so. The perks? Peanuts.
The ability to dictate what is and isn't "appropriate"? Bingo.
I predict that before the PR-note is out that the first moderators have taken the helm, we'll already have a juicy edit war on our hands. Some controversial video poster will be flagged "inappropriate" by his or her opponents, only to get an immediate response by the other side for their controversial figure. In the end, it will depend on who can field more armchair revolutionaries and opinion dictators.
Why limit it to nation states? Anyone who wants to push their viewpoint and squelch opposing ones will jump onto this chance to silence the opposition.
That's going to be exactly the problem. The only people who will volunteer for something like this are people with an agenda.
Penis length comparison, rather.
Seriously, anyone giving a shit about higher resolution? What I care about is sensible gameplay and fun. You remember fun? Try to put it back into games and I'll bother buying some again.
Really did. Awesome hardware, very solid, very long lasting, and you could get spare parts for ... well, ever.
Then Lenovo took over, and ... well, the aluminum turned to plastic and looking for spare would usually be met with the request to spare them the hassle and wouldn't you rather want a new one...
Sorry. I loved your notebooks, IBM. I really did. I had them for nearly 20 years. But I only had one Lenovo. And it's not looking like there will be another one littering my home.
That's what he said, what's your point?
Then they should know how to deal with MS. Knave thinks as he is, as the old German saying goes.
If that borders on stupid, I have to ask from which side.
CAN was never supposed to be a user space bus. When it was created, security was simply a non-issue because back then to get access to it, you'd pretty much have had to dismantle the whole car. Stealing it was heaps easier. And it's also not like with TCP where you can simply stack TLS on top of it, it doesn't work that way.
Leave the CAN bus alone! And don't even get the idea to mix user space electronics, where the idiot on the wheel can plug his insecure junk in, with mission critical controls for steering, brakes, fuel ignition or driver safety!
I can't help but be a little bit turned on by this...
Yeah. Uhhuh. If you believe that, I got a beautiful, only slightly used, bridge near the harbor of SF to sell.
I could imagine it was a bit like an engineer pondering "Hey, I know something! If we implement an IM where people can communicate anonymously and without the fear that their communication is recorded, we could get a ton of security conscious people to use it! And there isn't one like that right now, at least not in the public view, every other IM has of course all the features I'd want to implement, but they all also include corporate snooping."
This went up and down the various offices, changed hands, went from one table to the next, until one of the higher ups saw it and said "That's a great idea, and let's add corporate snooping so we can monetize it".
And so the 99th IM with exactly the same "feature" set nobody wants was created.
Elon, at least log in if you refuse to take your pills.
Google is a hipster company. They only support stuff before it gets cool.
Can't be, they're grounded due to the fire.
It's been canned.
Now I can replace myself with a very small script. And be social despite being an antisocial asshole who can't be assed to spend half a minute reading a message and ten more seconds replying to it.
If both people have that app, they can essentially let their phones be friends and needn't even know that they befriended each other. Or you can stay "in touch" with a friend without all the hassle of human-human interaction, just let your phone stay in contact with his phone to create the illusion that you still talk to each other, kinda like an old married couple.
Well, our free world hackers can use ads to deliver their payload, North Korea ain't that advanced, their hackers have to do it manually.
First fundamental problem: It's viruses. In English at least. In Latin, it would not be viri either because virus is neuter and only masculine nouns on -us become -i in the second declination. Virus is of the third declination (neuter). Another example is opus. It becomes opera. Not opi. Opi may put you to sleep similar to many Opera, but it is still something different.
The Latin plural of virus is vira, by the way. Viri would be the genitive singular. Virii is ... probably a problem with your keyboard, I don't know.
This cerebral masturbation aside, you cannot solve stupid. People executing arbitrary programs is the problem. You can tell them a million times "the dancing pig application might cause harm to your computer, it sure looks suspicious!" and they'll still click ok. The user is going to choose dancing pigs over security every time.
Well, probably you can get that cure for free... if you agree to get some electrodes planted into your brain. What they do? Why would you want to know, the cure (and the electrodes!) are FREE!