Activision suing file-sharers RIAA style

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Chemical said:

twesterm said:

 

How are they hurting me when I'm not the one pirating software?  I've never had a problem with Securom, DRMs, the RIAA, or whatever.  If you do the crime, you have to be prepared to do the time

It doesn't matter if it's a big corporation or a small mom and pop store, they aren't the ones that fucked up and they in no way forced those people to steal their software.

 

I hate sounding like a broken record, but these people knew what they were doing when they store that software and the knew the consequences.  They chose to pirate those games, and it's their own fault they have to pay those hefty fines.  Not Activisions.

 

And I hate to sound like a broken record as well, but how is it NOT hurting you. Back in the day you would pay for the game and you would have access to it for as long as the CD lasted, now you pay full price for the game and if you ever feel like playing it again, tough luck. What gaming companies want is a very expensive rental, you pay 50$ and then you get to play the game for a few months, and after that you can go and shove your computer up your nose you aint getting the game.

I am going to repost this link since you obviously ignored it

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080921-playstation-3-video-drm-two-strikes-and-youre-out.html

PS3 has on average 60gigs of harddrive space on their consoles, so if you buy something for the playstation store and ever delete it to make some space you will have to pay for the download again in the future. Is this what you desire twestern? Paying full retail price for a rental. Just recently I pulled out Medievel 2 Total War and I am playing it again, but what if I bought the game from EA store. My current PC is a new one, i built this one from a few months ago because my old PC crashed and I could not recover any data. Well, I would have to pay for the game again for the privelege of playing it.

I remember you talking about not having a problem with used game sales. I personally do but this is no way of doing this. Steam is the utopia of gaming future. You get to play games offline, you can install them on as many PCs as you want. In fact, I had a very easy time of getting Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 to play on my new PC. Hell, I played Portal again the other day and then uninstalled it to save space, most likely my 3rd or 4th time.

I understand that you hate piracy, in the end it kills developers but at the same time dont allow multibillion corporations to screw people over, because once they get the public to agree with a small offense then they will start pushing more and more.

 

 I can see why PSN is doing that way for movies.

There are a huge number of people that trade PSN downloaded games, Sony doesn't need it to be extended to movies ( or they would be in big troubles with the movies studios..)