Clueless industry

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Name96 join:2008-03-28	Clueless industry It's really amusing that the content publishing industries haven't yet got the message that DRM does nothing more than annoy legitimate users who actually paid for the material. Strict copy protection is able to slow down hackers for a few weeks or months, but once broken, no one who downloads cracked material will have to contend with the DRM headache at all. No one who uses illicit versions of Windows ever has any problems with crashing WGA servers or activation woes after upgrading their hardware. No one who gets games pre-cracked will have any problems with game DRM enforcement corrupting Windows to the point a scratch reinstall is necessary. Clue to industry: Annoying your shrinking base of paying customers without impacting non-paying users in any way whatsoever will not get you more paying customers. -- Coridon Henshaw -=- »www.talisiorder.ca
Name96 join:2008-03-28	to forum · permalink · 2008-05-08 13:00:34 ·
exactly @verizon.net	The bigger the DRM... the bigger the P I R A T E. The yin and the yang, the sun and the moon, the.. oh well, you get the point.. The same can be said for everything else, the vcr, the dvd, hd-dvd, blue ray... what else you got? I'm waiting for someone to come along and tank this cartel of and oil industry next! C'mon hydrogen!!! Once the price hits the tipping point.. and when those of us jump ship.. not even $1.00 a gallon gasoline will get us back!
exactly @verizon.net	to forum · permalink · 2008-05-08 13:25:16 ·

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