Often, pirates pirate a thing, not to avoid paying for it, but rather to view it on their continent of residence, to avoid region coding. There are several other good/quasi-legitimate reasons for piracy/ripping as well. I like having backup copies of things, or a media server. I don't really like having a wall of DVD's. I also hate the forced FBI warning, Interpol warning, and Stupid anti-piracy commercial. I also hate all of the other commercials too.
>companies use DRM to punish pirates
This is no punishment to pirates, the only party who is punished by DRM is the paying customer.
>DRM isn't a stupid idea, it's a stupid execution of a reasonable idea.
DRM is a misguided idea, favored by people who don't really grok the recent changes to and limitations of technology.
>Steam's DRM is reasonable. The damage to the name however, is already done. Now I avoid DRM like the plague.
Not really, it flakes out fairly often, initiating a 10-20 min process of restarting Steam and the game, which is pretty annoying for me because I try to allow myself a specific and limited amount of time for playing games. It sucks to waste that time waiting for [thing which adds no value] to align itself.
Often, pirates pirate a thing, not to avoid paying for it, but rather to view it on their continent of residence, to avoid region coding. There are several other good/quasi-legitimate reasons for piracy/ripping as well. I like having backup copies of things, or a media server. I don't really like having a wall of DVD's. I also hate the forced FBI warning, Interpol warning, and Stupid anti-piracy commercial. I also hate all of the other commercials too.
>companies use DRM to punish pirates
This is no punishment to pirates, the only party who is punished by DRM is the paying customer.
>DRM isn't a stupid idea, it's a stupid execution of a reasonable idea.
DRM is a misguided idea, favored by people who don't really grok the recent changes to and limitations of technology.
>Steam's DRM is reasonable. The damage to the name however, is already done. Now I avoid DRM like the plague.
Not really, it flakes out fairly often, initiating a 10-20 min process of restarting Steam and the game, which is pretty annoying for me because I try to allow myself a specific and limited amount of time for playing games. It sucks to waste that time waiting for [thing which adds no value] to align itself.