This sounds like something for hackers to get ahold of to me.
"Darn it, i took down my firewall for 1 second and I wound up with 15 pairs of really, really small underwear"
The reasons to buy one console over the other are:
1) "I _LIKE_ Sony." Fair enough, but I don't know THAT many Sony fanboys.
2) Price. Sony's consoles are a good bit more than everybody elses...and if I'm stuck buying $60 games because I cant play any used ones...
3) Unique games. Such as Halo 2. Oh, wait, thats on the xBox....what unique games does Sony have again?
Plus there are many anti-DRM people out there who won't buy it just because it uses a DRM.
I think if they ever try to do this, many people will see it and take the cue to go buy a different console (whatever version of xBox Microsoft has come up with by this time) and play their favorite games on that.
...I happen to be a theatre major as well as a Computer Science Major (yes, and odd combination, I know)...but speaking as an artist, I would not want someone else to take something I've written and re-edit it, removing things they didn't like.
Believe it or not, every detail of every scene in the movie is very intentional. If someone were to delete anything, espically an entire scene, that could destroy the entire central image I was going for.
For this reason, I support the decision.
That said, I'm not a huge fan of "naughty bits" myself, particularly in front of children. As an artist, however, I would rather the parents say "we're not going to watch this movie" and not buy it than for them to re-edit it themselves.
Removal of a whole song on a CD is different... i would view that as "we're not going to listen to this song", rather than "We're going to change this persons art."
This is just adding another way for bad people to get into places they're not supposed to be....i mean, if the government can monitor me while on the internet, whats to stop "the bad guys" from using the same thing thats built right into the router?
Also, would this even stop anything? I mean, with the encription technologies out there now, whats to stop the terrorists from encripting the data with practically uncrackable algroithms?
To me this seems like spending a bunch of money to add a security hole, that only makes terrorists take one simple step to avoid.
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This sounds like something for hackers to get ahold of to me. "Darn it, i took down my firewall for 1 second and I wound up with 15 pairs of really, really small underwear"
The reasons to buy one console over the other are: 1) "I _LIKE_ Sony." Fair enough, but I don't know THAT many Sony fanboys. 2) Price. Sony's consoles are a good bit more than everybody elses...and if I'm stuck buying $60 games because I cant play any used ones... 3) Unique games. Such as Halo 2. Oh, wait, thats on the xBox. ...what unique games does Sony have again?
Plus there are many anti-DRM people out there who won't buy it just because it uses a DRM.
I think if they ever try to do this, many people will see it and take the cue to go buy a different console (whatever version of xBox Microsoft has come up with by this time) and play their favorite games on that.
...so will the extra storage allow better quality and make movies "come to life" alot more?
...I happen to be a theatre major as well as a Computer Science Major (yes, and odd combination, I know)...but speaking as an artist, I would not want someone else to take something I've written and re-edit it, removing things they didn't like.
Believe it or not, every detail of every scene in the movie is very intentional. If someone were to delete anything, espically an entire scene, that could destroy the entire central image I was going for.
For this reason, I support the decision.
That said, I'm not a huge fan of "naughty bits" myself, particularly in front of children. As an artist, however, I would rather the parents say "we're not going to watch this movie" and not buy it than for them to re-edit it themselves.
Removal of a whole song on a CD is different... i would view that as "we're not going to listen to this song", rather than "We're going to change this persons art."
This is just adding another way for bad people to get into places they're not supposed to be....i mean, if the government can monitor me while on the internet, whats to stop "the bad guys" from using the same thing thats built right into the router? Also, would this even stop anything? I mean, with the encription technologies out there now, whats to stop the terrorists from encripting the data with practically uncrackable algroithms? To me this seems like spending a bunch of money to add a security hole, that only makes terrorists take one simple step to avoid.