whatever on 31 December 2007
| ookaze said: All your problem comes from the fact that you don't understand what DRM is. DRM is not, as you put it, "a way for Microsoft to insure that the different transactions you make through Xbox Live marketplace remain your property". No, not at all. DRM is rather "a way for Microsoft to insure that the different transactions you make through Xbox Live marketplace remain their property". I guess most people still don't understand what DRM is. It's basically something you pay for, whose purpose is to screw you, the consumer that paid for it. |
Yes, in the good old days before the DMCA, you actually owned something you bought. You could take it apart, modify it, and use it for whatever you wanted to, after all, it was yours. Now you are just buying a license to use it and can only use it the was the producer sees fit. I still can't believe this is legal, but we all know who own the politicians and make the laws. At least in the good old US of A.
It would be like buying a house and being told you couldn't paint it or add furniture.
