Originally posted by: blurredvision
Originally posted by: Cogman
I agree with you though, DRM is a bad idea that is all about milking the most money out of the consumer.
Wow, we all just witnessed your knowledge of the business world. I never knew corporate America was out to get all of my money!!!
If people weren't such fvcking thieves, DRM wouldn't be necessary. But we know that thieves/pirates will never cease to be, so companies have to protect their property, otherwise they'll go out of business. I can't understand why people who hate DRM blame the companies, it makes no sense. Sure, they can be considered evil for trying to get our money, but don't you hate it when people steal lemonade from your stand?
Wow, we all just witnessed your lack of knowledge of corporate piracy. I never knew that Americans where out to get screwed!
The fact of the matter is, DRM was not created to stop piracy, end of story. If companies truly believe that they could stop piracy with some new encryption scheme then they must be idiots uneducated in computer history and technology. I however do not believe that to be the case.
Is it too much to ask that corporate America a some small amount of morals? I guess by your stand point, yes, that is too much to ask. If anything, the introduction of DRM and such has only fulled the desire for people to pirate things. Honest people will get fed up with reduced quality and the inability to play music on the devices that they own, something they have grown accustom to with cd and records. When they do that, they start thinking "Hey there must be a better way" And if they are computer literate at all, they find a piracy website and make the copy.
On the other hand, the place that the corporate makes up is with the honest joe that Doesn't know how to make a copy of his product, then he is screwed and has to go out and buy 10 editions of whatever media HE ALREADY OWNS just to get it to work on a single device. The Pirates are not stopped, or even slowed for that matter. They have been breaking software encryption and protection since it was introduce, new methods only take a little longer for them to figure out.
Now, I do agree with you. If people weren't thieves, the DRM and copyright laws would have never been created, or would have taken a lot longer to come out. But the only reason that is, is because they would not have as big an excuse to try and implement such protection methods. However, they would still love to have them because it would directly translate into a larger profit for them.
Now seriously, what was the last company or industry that you know of that went out of business solely due to piracy or their products? Not many if any, because as long as there are computer illiterate people out there, their product will have a customer to sell to. And protection implemented by them will do little to get more customers to come buy their products, they are more likely to never look at the product again rather then try and buy it.