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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Phil Da Lick! on Tuesday 23 September 2008 14:07 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> EA in Spore DRM climbdown
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>>>> | Critics claim DRM limiting those who bought the hotly anticipated sim to
>>>> | only three installs amounts to no more than renting the software out,
>>>> | rather than selling it. DRM also prevented players from creating more
>>>> | than one user account per copy of Spore — even though the game's
>>>> | literature specifically states otherwise.
>>>> |
>>>> | As what is now a matter of routine with modern PC games, pirates managed
>>>> | to crack the game's DRM restrictions within a day of the game's release
>>>> | and hosted this de-restricted content on certain nefarious file-sharing
>>>> | websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/public_knowledge_fights_copyright_enforcement_bill/
>>>> More proof that DRM is ineffective. Just pisses off customers and does not
>>>> prevent copying...
>>>
>>> It's a battle that can never be won. The pirates will always rip the
>>> content with no regard for ownership. I do think the number of installs
>>> is a problem with a platform as inherently pants as windows that
>>> benefits from a reinstall every 3-6 months if you do any kind of serious
>>> work with it. I know a lot of people don't like the steam system from
>>> valve but I think its inevitable that this system of player registration
>>> with the publisher will end up being the common middle ground.
>>
>> Hollywood hasn't met tripod yet.
>
> tripod?
Yes, they think that DRM serves a purpose and they have already ruined an
entire operating system because of it.
The tripod point was raised in Gutmann's paper. Next challenge: how
to 'disable' people's eyes and ears.
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"There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would
include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the
economy."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO
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