DRM schemes have two sets of customers: the end-users and the content providers. End-users want to be able to easily access their games, and content providers want end-users to pay for their content (instead of users sharing content). These desires need to be balanced, and the successful DRM scheme does that.
Steam's model is about as close as DRM comes to being perfect for the users and the providers.
Way to completely mischaracterize the situation. This has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the DMCA and shitty web hosts. The same thing happened my website over a copyright dispute with another individual. GoDaddy suspended my domain instead of just blocking the content. Trying to pin this on Microsoft is pathetic.
That's funny, because every second hand PC game that I've ever purchased worked just fine.
>DRM causes many people to start pirating who would never consider it beforehand.
Bullshit. If you buy the CD, you're not going to have any problems...at least 99% of the time. If you buy used, you might not be able to play online, but you can't do that if you pirate either.
I love when people try to use DRM as an excuse for piracy. DRM is a response to piracy...in other words, you assholes are making it worse for the rest of us every time you pirate something. It wouldn't be an issue if people could be honest in their dealings.
>I mean, they can basically disable/cripple anyone's computer for any reason without notice.
No, they can't. They have no idea who you are or who has a specific license key.
>Instead, it recommended a 100% free software stack: "It is for this reason that I recommend proprietary software be replaced with free software in all cases."
And it is for this reason that I write off most of the things that FOSS zealots say. Their suggestions are often ridiculous and made based on ideology, not reality.
>ODF is an open format which means anyone can write applications that use it. The list of existing applications that use it includes Google Docs, WordPerfect, Lotus Symphony, etc.
The funny thing is that all of those programs you mentioned also open.doc files. Interesting for a closed format.
I'm not talking about any country in particular. What do Germans do if no one wants to teach? What happens to your "right" to education then? Would you force people to be teachers? Then you become slavers.
Rights do not require someone else to do something for you. I believe you mean that education is an entitlement.
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An infinite loop of what?
DRM schemes have two sets of customers: the end-users and the content providers. End-users want to be able to easily access their games, and content providers want end-users to pay for their content (instead of users sharing content). These desires need to be balanced, and the successful DRM scheme does that.
Steam's model is about as close as DRM comes to being perfect for the users and the providers.
Way to completely mischaracterize the situation. This has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the DMCA and shitty web hosts. The same thing happened my website over a copyright dispute with another individual. GoDaddy suspended my domain instead of just blocking the content. Trying to pin this on Microsoft is pathetic.
I hear that it looks like this when you start it up. It might look simple, but you can do anything.
No, because we're not talking about government. We're talking about video games.
>DRM is a response to second-hand sales
That's funny, because every second hand PC game that I've ever purchased worked just fine.
>DRM causes many people to start pirating who would never consider it beforehand.
Bullshit. If you buy the CD, you're not going to have any problems...at least 99% of the time. If you buy used, you might not be able to play online, but you can't do that if you pirate either.
I love when people try to use DRM as an excuse for piracy. DRM is a response to piracy...in other words, you assholes are making it worse for the rest of us every time you pirate something. It wouldn't be an issue if people could be honest in their dealings.
"Online play is a part of the game as advertised on the retail box."
And if you buy it retail, you can play online. Sony is not responsible for second hand goods.
Workstation backups? I didn't know that was something that anyone did.
That's what the deflector array is for.
So Verizon is allowing me to do something that I could already do? I've had Skype on my Winmo smart-ish phone for awhile.
In other words, all of the evidence that you don't have is much more convincing than the evidence presented?
>I mean, they can basically disable/cripple anyone's computer for any reason without notice. No, they can't. They have no idea who you are or who has a specific license key.
>Instead, it recommended a 100% free software stack: "It is for this reason that I recommend proprietary software be replaced with free software in all cases."
And it is for this reason that I write off most of the things that FOSS zealots say. Their suggestions are often ridiculous and made based on ideology, not reality.
>When does DirectX release new versions? Shortly after when wine cracks the full functionality of the existing DirectX.
WINE causes Microsoft to release new versions? lol!
Wait...you're serious, aren't you?
You mean to tell me that when you're using a new UI, you won't be immediately familiar with it? I'm shocked!
>But why almighty fuck would the fangirlies of one non-IE browser devote so much time and effort to bashing any other non-IE browser?
Why? To get posts like yours in response!
I forget the name, but it appears not to be on the list.
They don't have to reverse engineer anything. Microsoft publishes the the format specifications:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx
Ok, who let grandpa on the computer again?
Of course, they could spare us the bullshit of having to download a multi-hundred megabyte app and just publish these docs in HTML.
>ODF is an open format which means anyone can write applications that use it. The list of existing applications that use it includes Google Docs, WordPerfect, Lotus Symphony, etc.
.doc files. Interesting for a closed format.
The funny thing is that all of those programs you mentioned also open
>When the government is dependent of patented technologies, they become a slave to the patent owners.
We all depend on patented technologies to go about our day-to-day lives. Does that make us slaves to patent owners?
>Belgium, Netherlands, Norway...now Denmark
Maybe it's more like slowfire.
I'm not talking about any country in particular. What do Germans do if no one wants to teach? What happens to your "right" to education then? Would you force people to be teachers? Then you become slavers.
Rights do not require someone else to do something for you. I believe you mean that education is an entitlement.