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Article #82674Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Magnate
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:42
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:42
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"David Alex Lamb" <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> wrote > Shawk wrote: >> Walt's confident that no decent person would be driven to behaving like a >> criminal even if people consistently treat them as criminals and I'm sure >> he's right for a percentage of people. > > "Criminal" is a pretty loaded word. Laws have a wide range of > seriousness, and there's lots of evidence that many (maybe most) people > don't consider some of them (say, speeding laws, or jaywalking laws) to be > so serious as to be worth obeying if it's inconvenient to do so. > > It has long been clear, since at least the days of cheap photocopying and > cheap audio cassettes, that a large fraction of the public has trouble > taking copyright seriously. I can easily imagine people who never > bothered to figure out how to pirate anything suddenly getting pissed off > enough about laws they barely respect in the first place to start > downloading, just because of DRM. > > I am not trying to justify breaking any such laws. While the Pirate Bay > article may well have been trying to do so, I think many newly-minted > pirates might just be saying to themselves "f**k it, that rule is just as > silly as a 100km/hr speed limit on the 401". They might think of their > one download as pretty much equivalent to driving 105km/hr instead of 100. I've resisted the temptation to join this thread so far, but I just have to say that that's the best explanation for why DRM is a bad thing that I've ever seen. Thanks David. CC
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe12.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: "Magnate" <not@receiving.here> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <94b9b5835db6b616cfdd9f7dd549cf0b@pseudo.borked.net> <714e7c984757793edd58d3ef3e172def@pseudo.borked.net> <lefqc4pau5ma0brcsf175v8goikv7a8q45@4ax.com> <C-qdnUy61LBl3VDVnZ2dnUVZ8tPinZ2d@bt.com> <f5czk.33492$S64.23577@newsfe09.ams2> <7_WdneDvH_GZ9VDVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com> <D_Xzk.75$Hw.68@read1.cgocable.net> Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM Lines: 32 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Message-ID: <7277q5-qk1.ln1@news.terminalarrogance.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.7.162.113 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe12.ams2 1221653321 86.7.162.113 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:08:41 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:08:41 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:42:22 +0100 Bytes: 3290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit