Why box one's take on DRM is bad.

[disolitude]

Muffin31190 said:

disolitude said:
Watched the video and at least he is presenting a coherent point of view, unlike some others...

But listen people, if you wanted the world to work like this guy says it should, you should have voted for communism or socialism as the governing rule of your country.

There is really no room for consideration when it comes to little Timmy and his poor family in capitalism. People do things for profit. Games get made for profit. Gamestop exists to make a profit...

Otherwise pretty much everything this guy is saying is going to contradict itself when next gen market doubles current gen sales, despite "DRM".

Until Physical Media is done away with then I really dont see DRM workin well at all and i would understand that. But as it stands it will cause a monopolistic industry and that is not capitalism, it will destroy all the Mom&Pop shops and hurt a lot of Middle America. If gamestop has no competition then they can do whatever the hell they want with trade in's  and charge whatever they want, you cant fight a company that control's everything in a certain industry trust me it's what led to the Great Depression and also the most recent Recession.

I think thats an extremely paranoid and unrealitic way of looking at it. The same business model is implemented with smartphones, tablets, PCs as of Windows 8 and Chromebook, music sales, movie sales...and there is no recession.

Mom and pop stores selling video games have been getting wiped for a decade but guys like Amazon, Walmart, gamestop and best buy. This trend will continue regardless of DRM. Next up it will be Gamestop who starts to suffer once people start taking advantage of digital sales and stop buying digital games from retailers like Gamestop... Much like Netflix and digital streaming killed blockbuster. One thing is for sure though, life will go on and great games will continue to be made...