I don't get this propensity to blame video games for violence. A lot of people play Minecraft, but you don't find them digging huge holes in their garden and muttering about diamonds. Pretty much everyone has played Tetris, but we don't suddenly get this urge to rearrange box-like shapes into neat rows (imagine the problems at your local supermarket if we all kept trying to re-organise the cereal aisle!)
It's become too easy to just lash out and blame someone else these days. If it wasn't video games it would be films, or music, or books, or theatre productions (all that Shakespearean violence is just not setting a good example)
Except that it doesn't often happen like that. There have been more than a few BestNetTech articles about some form of annoying PC game DRM, and many more videos on YouTube of raging gamers hit by such DRM.
Prince of Persia the original DOS game was good for this. The manual had a small story written into the footer of each page of the manual, and the game would randomly ask you for word x on page y. Of course, when game publishers did away with printed manuals to lower production costs (yet kept the consumer price the same, funny that eh?) they effectively did away with an insteresting copy-prevention method.
It also calls to light a comment from one of the Johnny books by Terry Pratchett, about how the game publishers had "obviously never heard of Wobbler's dad's office's photocopier"
So it bit the people who purchased the game legally, but probably did nothing to real pirates who this was intended to stop?
I had a similar situation happen to me with a film my sister bought me for Christmas one year on DVD. It was using an updated copy protection system and wouldn't play on my computer because of it. The solution? Download the film. It took an hour to download, less time than it would have taken if I'd tried to find a solution a different way. It has put me off of making some purchases I might have otherwise now though. So what cost piracy? It was actually the anti-piracy methods which caused the problems, although critics would argue that without piracy the situation would never have gotten to this point.
Game discs, being software, are very different from a film. Typically, yes, one key would be used to unlock the game as it would be tied to an account. The disc and the download would just be the binaries used to play the game and connect to that account.
A film though, is different, and trying to suggest they should be treated the same as a completely different medium is the wrong way to think about this. It is different and needs to be treated as such.
Oh good grief. Clearly, you aren't qualified or able to make any sort of legal argument or conclusion. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. Absolutely no analysis or nuance.
Grammatical errors aside, what on earth are you on about? There's no legal case he's trying to make there. In-fact, apart from the cold hard facts, the only conjecture is prefaced with 'may', which does not mean the same thing as 'will'. It doesn't seem like a far-flung conclusion, and cites several references as source for establishing a behavioural pattern.
I would suggest laying off the caffiene, getting some fresh air, and maybe a frontal lobotomy, as you seem to have some trouble functioning in the world.
I got involved in a debate with a friend about open formats a few years back when Microsoft announced their Office Open XML format, the naming of which is remarkably similar to Open Office and their sponsered format Open Document Format. He was adamant that the Microsoft way was better because it was ISO certified (despite there being some dubious irregularities about how they got that at the time)
It's obvious that it's actually about Brazilian flatulence porn (something which I was blissfully ignorant of until I was told)
Or, could it be that the two "stars" of a certain clip involving a cup and a couple of girls were from Brazil? I can quite understand how no country would ever want to be associated with that.
"So why would they still be trotting them out as examples?"
You've made the mistake here of thinking that they actually know what they're doing with this bill, something they've never really shown to be capable of. You probably got confused with all the jumping and hopping through the it?
I actually think he has a lot of good points though in his interview there, although he is taking it to an extreme (why should he get paid for pissing?!)
The movie studios are hardly short of a few bob (unless pirating really is a problem and that money they make from lawsuits barely covers costs) so it's not fair they expect not to pay for content they're including on their own releases. It's clear to anyone with a braincell that the studios have double standards.
Of course, I don't agree with his latest suit, he's basically just being an ass and expecting to be paid for his shit as well as piss...
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Erm, isn't that a Scottish "accent" you're using there? :p
I don't get this propensity to blame video games for violence. A lot of people play Minecraft, but you don't find them digging huge holes in their garden and muttering about diamonds. Pretty much everyone has played Tetris, but we don't suddenly get this urge to rearrange box-like shapes into neat rows (imagine the problems at your local supermarket if we all kept trying to re-organise the cereal aisle!)
It's become too easy to just lash out and blame someone else these days. If it wasn't video games it would be films, or music, or books, or theatre productions (all that Shakespearean violence is just not setting a good example)
Wait, you mean he's pirating our drama? Stop him now, someone!
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Except that it doesn't often happen like that. There have been more than a few BestNetTech articles about some form of annoying PC game DRM, and many more videos on YouTube of raging gamers hit by such DRM.
Re: Re: DRM used to be fun....
Prince of Persia the original DOS game was good for this. The manual had a small story written into the footer of each page of the manual, and the game would randomly ask you for word x on page y. Of course, when game publishers did away with printed manuals to lower production costs (yet kept the consumer price the same, funny that eh?) they effectively did away with an insteresting copy-prevention method.
It also calls to light a comment from one of the Johnny books by Terry Pratchett, about how the game publishers had "obviously never heard of Wobbler's dad's office's photocopier"
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So it bit the people who purchased the game legally, but probably did nothing to real pirates who this was intended to stop?
I had a similar situation happen to me with a film my sister bought me for Christmas one year on DVD. It was using an updated copy protection system and wouldn't play on my computer because of it. The solution? Download the film. It took an hour to download, less time than it would have taken if I'd tried to find a solution a different way. It has put me off of making some purchases I might have otherwise now though. So what cost piracy? It was actually the anti-piracy methods which caused the problems, although critics would argue that without piracy the situation would never have gotten to this point.
Game discs, being software, are very different from a film. Typically, yes, one key would be used to unlock the game as it would be tied to an account. The disc and the download would just be the binaries used to play the game and connect to that account.
A film though, is different, and trying to suggest they should be treated the same as a completely different medium is the wrong way to think about this. It is different and needs to be treated as such.
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Grammatical errors aside, what on earth are you on about? There's no legal case he's trying to make there. In-fact, apart from the cold hard facts, the only conjecture is prefaced with 'may', which does not mean the same thing as 'will'. It doesn't seem like a far-flung conclusion, and cites several references as source for establishing a behavioural pattern.
I would suggest laying off the caffiene, getting some fresh air, and maybe a frontal lobotomy, as you seem to have some trouble functioning in the world.
I got involved in a debate with a friend about open formats a few years back when Microsoft announced their Office Open XML format, the naming of which is remarkably similar to Open Office and their sponsered format Open Document Format. He was adamant that the Microsoft way was better because it was ISO certified (despite there being some dubious irregularities about how they got that at the time)
Innovation leads to jealousy, jealousy leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.
It's obvious that it's actually about Brazilian flatulence porn (something which I was blissfully ignorant of until I was told)
Or, could it be that the two "stars" of a certain clip involving a cup and a couple of girls were from Brazil? I can quite understand how no country would ever want to be associated with that.
I'm not going to be the only one here who sadly thinks this will be used to make a better case for not allowing anonymity online. :(
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You've made the mistake here of thinking that they actually know what they're doing with this bill, something they've never really shown to be capable of. You probably got confused with all the jumping and hopping through the it?
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No, no, no. You're confusing easy with obvious.
An idea can be either easy or hard, big or small; that isn't a deciding factor on whether the idea is good or not.
I actually think he has a lot of good points though in his interview there, although he is taking it to an extreme (why should he get paid for pissing?!)
The movie studios are hardly short of a few bob (unless pirating really is a problem and that money they make from lawsuits barely covers costs) so it's not fair they expect not to pay for content they're including on their own releases. It's clear to anyone with a braincell that the studios have double standards.
Of course, I don't agree with his latest suit, he's basically just being an ass and expecting to be paid for his shit as well as piss...