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dgm6780 said:

 

Wow man! When you run your car into a tree do you call up ford and demand a free replacement? Just because its digital doesnt mean it should be treated like any other property. You slam your game to ground its YOUR fault, even if its an accident lol

 

And yeah , sure, you care about copyright protection because you are worried about all the little kiddies out

there that broke their copy of Sponge Bob. These movie/media companys have WAY to much $ invested in these properties to have them easily stolen. There are many reports that Transformers HD-DVD have been easily available via torrents. That wont fly with these studios. If these studios stay exclusive Blu Ray should be just fine, plus in next 2 months Sony should sell 2-4 million PS3.

That comparison of crashing my car into a tree versus damaging a cd is like comparing apples to dragons. One costs several thousands of dollars in raw materials and man hours to make and another costs a few cents of plastic stamped out of a machine that while the initial cost is huge should be pennies compared to the value of product it stamps out. Do you really think its reasonable for damaged media to be replaced for full price? Even if you send in the damaged one to verify it is indeed damaged its not like I called Nintendo up and said hey send me SSBM for nothing I won't prove that I do or do not own it! This is keeping in mind the fact that I'm supposed to have the right to back my media up myself but these companeis refuse to let me. It'd be one thing if I broke it and didn't have a backup because of my own willful ignorance then make me pay full for a new one its another when these guys do everything they can to willfully take our rights away. Its part why as much as I dislike Microsoft atm they are proving to be hugely brilliant with excelent customer service for replacing damaged discs of their games. They are not running a hypocritical line like Nintendo, Sony, and all movie makers are currently of saying we take away your right to make backups but we won't replace media for reasonable costs either.

And no its not because I'm worried about the kiddies I'm worried about my own rights with media. Besides being a console gamer I'm a PC gamer and fortunately the PC unlike the consoles has allowed me to burn copies of my games and use those play while the originals sit safe in their boxes the same for any movies in the house that see a lot of use because face it even if you are careful things get damaged. Yes the SSBM cd was my fault whatever since you are latching to that but what about the hundreds of other discs that I own and I'm sure others do too that they were careful consistently with and still got scratched. What about all the 360 owners who have never done anything wrong with their discs and they were scratched by bad drives. I think it would be a better world if we could just make back ups of our media like the law says we are supposed to have don't you?