Kae'Yoss
First Post
All the DRM, DVD copy protection, and "awareness campaigns" are doing the exact opposite of what they want them to, anyway: They annoy and harass paying customers.
After all, if someone is intent of freeloading the stuff, those meager protections won't be a barrier, and once they're gone, the stuff can be duplicated without a hassle. That breaking those protections is against the law is a pretty moot point since they are already breaking the law by making unauthorized copies.
And then they can use the pdfs wherever they want.
Same for DVDs: Those copy protections don't keep anyone. Worse yet, those short clips they put on DVDs ("Movie Piracy isn't fun. It's a real crime. Worse than child abuse or rape. Because of software pirates, children starve and people eat each other. If the world ends, it's because of software piracy!") are a real pain. And, that's the funny part: Only actual customers will see them. And they have to watch them every time they want to watch the DVD they have bought with money, while the guy who made himself a copy has probably deleted the clip in the process, so he can watch his DVD in peace.
I think they shouldn't encourage people to make copies of their stuff by making the originals almost unbearable.
They even tried stuff with music CDs - once again, it didn't take the crackers (or whatever they call themselves) long to create MP3s and CD copies, but the customer who bought the disc still has to put up with the original thing, which might not run on his car stereo.
I won't name names, but some artists and labels would probably have better results if they just stopped being jerks. Maybe if people respected them enough they'd give them their money.
Talking of which: remind me to do some software piracy one of these days. No, I don't talk about making an unauthorized copy of some computer game. I talk about storming Mircosoft Central or Sony Music or Blizzard or whatever with a cutlass, keelhaul their CEOs, and make of with a lot of booty from their warehouses. That would be software piracy!![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
No really, the term "software piracy" (the German term is "raubkopie" - robbed copy) is ridiculous. They try to make the the whole thing look like an atrocity worse than torturing children or something.
Okay, I'm done ranting. Back to Wizards PDFs
After all, if someone is intent of freeloading the stuff, those meager protections won't be a barrier, and once they're gone, the stuff can be duplicated without a hassle. That breaking those protections is against the law is a pretty moot point since they are already breaking the law by making unauthorized copies.
And then they can use the pdfs wherever they want.
Same for DVDs: Those copy protections don't keep anyone. Worse yet, those short clips they put on DVDs ("Movie Piracy isn't fun. It's a real crime. Worse than child abuse or rape. Because of software pirates, children starve and people eat each other. If the world ends, it's because of software piracy!") are a real pain. And, that's the funny part: Only actual customers will see them. And they have to watch them every time they want to watch the DVD they have bought with money, while the guy who made himself a copy has probably deleted the clip in the process, so he can watch his DVD in peace.
I think they shouldn't encourage people to make copies of their stuff by making the originals almost unbearable.
They even tried stuff with music CDs - once again, it didn't take the crackers (or whatever they call themselves) long to create MP3s and CD copies, but the customer who bought the disc still has to put up with the original thing, which might not run on his car stereo.
I won't name names, but some artists and labels would probably have better results if they just stopped being jerks. Maybe if people respected them enough they'd give them their money.
Talking of which: remind me to do some software piracy one of these days. No, I don't talk about making an unauthorized copy of some computer game. I talk about storming Mircosoft Central or Sony Music or Blizzard or whatever with a cutlass, keelhaul their CEOs, and make of with a lot of booty from their warehouses. That would be software piracy!
No really, the term "software piracy" (the German term is "raubkopie" - robbed copy) is ridiculous. They try to make the the whole thing look like an atrocity worse than torturing children or something.
Okay, I'm done ranting. Back to Wizards PDFs
