Plus, the original list price doesn't say what the list price after a couple of years is going to be.
I think next-gen owners are going to be Revolution + one of 360/PS3. How many titles are going to be unique to a platofrm, and of those, how of those are worth a console purchase?
If it's open source, I can tweak it to spit out the decrypted data for me to pipe where I like. I'll pay for online content if I can then go and do what I please with it.
Correct, that's all open source DRM can do. How does that mesh with what the content providers want? (e.g. You stream it to LAME and toss the MP3 up on BitTorrent is likely something that providers don't want. How do you stop that with OSS? Once the data stream is decrypted, the DRM is gone)
Consoles are machines designed to play games. If "not having to use a disk" was really an important requirement for playing games, consoles wouldn't require you to swap disks to play games. It's not, so they do.
And you do other things besides games on the console how? A computer is general purpose. Things that limit that do not get installed.
you could always try a portable CD player. Or just slap another CD-ROM drive in
Buy more because of "features" of the software that gives me no benefit? Yeah, right.
It's not like it's that hard to change disks. You hit the little Eject button, take out the disk already there, and put in the new one. Easy
There's a probability of scratching each time. It also drains battery on laptops.
When games first started coming out on CD, they all required you to have the game disk in the drive. Yet people didn't complain.
And you couldn't blow 640 MB * num cds in drive space on a whim then either.
The requirement to change disks hasn't stopped people from playing console games.Hell, some games require you to change disks while the game is still playing! Yet, no one minds.
Consoles are not general purpose machines. Why shouldn't someone be able to play a CD while playing a game?
The whole "steal the game to avoid having to use the disk" has got to be one of the lamest excuses for theft ever.
If you've bought the game, how is it stealing to use the crack?
The PS2 was a hell of a lot more backwards compatible than the 360, and it played DVDs. In Japan it sold on it's strength as a cheap DVD player as well.
Sony's trying to get history to repeat itself with Blu-Ray and better(?) backwards compatibility.
The difference between the PS2 and the XBox though is that the PS2 came out first. The power is almost irrelevant, it's who has the better games. The PS3 is going to need a strong launch lineup to compete.
Actually, I'd like to see a federal law where if you propose an unconstitutional law, or vote for enough of them, you are banned completely from politics.
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Plus, the original list price doesn't say what the list price after a couple of years is going to be.
I think next-gen owners are going to be Revolution + one of 360/PS3. How many titles are going to be unique to a platofrm, and of those, how of those are worth a console purchase?
Guess what. Games are doing about a 3x better job than movie sales. Why no uproar about that?
Watermarking isn't an effective DRM technique
If it's open source, I can tweak it to spit out the decrypted data for me to pipe where I like. I'll pay for online content if I can then go and do what I please with it.
Correct, that's all open source DRM can do. How does that mesh with what the content providers want? (e.g. You stream it to LAME and toss the MP3 up on BitTorrent is likely something that providers don't want. How do you stop that with OSS? Once the data stream is decrypted, the DRM is gone)
It means they aren't secure.
Open Source Encryption is fine, since only the people with the keys can do anything useful to the data stream, an attacker is still in trouble.
With DRM, the attacker and the valid user can be one and the same. That's a lot harder to protect.
Consoles are machines designed to play games. If "not having to use a disk" was really an important requirement for playing games, consoles wouldn't require you to swap disks to play games. It's not, so they do.
And you do other things besides games on the console how? A computer is general purpose. Things that limit that do not get installed.
you could always try a portable CD player. Or just slap another CD-ROM drive in
Buy more because of "features" of the software that gives me no benefit? Yeah, right.
It's not like it's that hard to change disks. You hit the little Eject button, take out the disk already there, and put in the new one. Easy
There's a probability of scratching each time. It also drains battery on laptops.
When games first started coming out on CD, they all required you to have the game disk in the drive. Yet people didn't complain.
And you couldn't blow 640 MB * num cds in drive space on a whim then either.
The requirement to change disks hasn't stopped people from playing console games.Hell, some games require you to change disks while the game is still playing! Yet, no one minds.
Consoles are not general purpose machines. Why shouldn't someone be able to play a CD while playing a game?
The whole "steal the game to avoid having to use the disk" has got to be one of the lamest excuses for theft ever.
If you've bought the game, how is it stealing to use the crack?
GPL? Better tell that to Xiph
The Ogg Vorbis specification is in the public domain. It is completely free for commercial or noncommercial use.
The libraries and SDKs are released under our BSD-like license.
Umm, I know apple can (that's why my qualification that they are currently "less evil"). But can MS DRM?
I don't believe Apple is less evil than MS in this respect
They are, but who knows for how long.
Can you burn MS' to a plain audio CD?
And if you RTFA, companies can (and do) give lesser quality products under the same label to Wal-Mart.
IIRC, the same is true of some of the stuff at Best Buy as well.
And if it covers taking advantage of bugs, then they have more important things to do, like fixing the bugs.
So either way, they should just leave him alone.
If it's in a lane on a freeway, that's the proper action, it could very easily turn into an emergency
Leaving an unconstitutional law on the books is a step forward?
Different levels of obscenity impact interstate commerce and place an undue burden on speakers on media like the net.
The corporations are not funding the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the USPTO is funded by US taxpayers.
So it's free to file a patent then?
The PS2 was a hell of a lot more backwards compatible than the 360, and it played DVDs. In Japan it sold on it's strength as a cheap DVD player as well.
Sony's trying to get history to repeat itself with Blu-Ray and better(?) backwards compatibility.
I don't imagine that many kids will be able to get around a governmental firewall
And I imagine many kids don't know how to use Bit Torrent or eDonkey or any other number of P2P programs. </sarcasm>
The difference between the PS2 and the XBox though is that the PS2 came out first. The power is almost irrelevant, it's who has the better games. The PS3 is going to need a strong launch lineup to compete.
Considering laws like this, they *know* it's unconstitutional, and often times admit it in interviews. It's blatant abuses that need to stop.
Just make it an impeachable offense (it is abuse of the public trust), then the Constitution itself covers the banning.
XBox doesn't have much more market penetration, and that's embracing online play.
Actually, I'd like to see a federal law where if you propose an unconstitutional law, or vote for enough of them, you are banned completely from politics.
>10 Million DS sold = < 10% online
>16 Million XBox sold = < 13% online
but there's really no such thing as an offline MMORPG is there?
yes, there is
The "will it be played in 500 years" bit.