Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/45134/ 2008-11-23T04:37:20-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/45134/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2005-07-01T00:28:18-05:00 Jon Meeker http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/45134/#294123 I agree completely text/html 2005-06-21T06:17:16-05:00 hippy1001 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/45134/#0 What an interesting article. I did read through most of the previous ones you did that lead up to this one and like many others i do have my own views on them.<br /> I think like most large organisations they are run by shall i say the older generation that are taught to make money and we the consumers are second only to thier shareholders. They hear about new technology (e.g Kazaa, bit torrent, DC++ and so on) that can distribute thier products, be it music, films and software much more efficient than they can, so they got scared, and hired people to make a copy protection software, laws on stopping people using p2p networks and started to sue people for sharing what they bought Rather than embracing the technology and using it to thier advantage. They couldnt see past the criminal activity and see the programs that were made for legal distributions for a fraction of the cost of pressing a cd/dvd, shipping and retail sales.<br /> That was thier first mistake, they made the whole world know about napster and file sharing. And people being what they are were interested in it, and had to look and see and more importantly try it out for themselves. Im sure most of you thought when you heard about napster and such that maybe it had a song that was hard to find in the shops and if only by copyright infringment of one song you could have it, then maybe that would be ok. wouldnt it?<br /> Games, music and movies only have a limited shelve life before no-one buys them anymore, so advertising your product and making it sound like something you need is big business and costs alot of money, but like everything, it doesnt quite live up to what they project and people are left feeling robbed and misled.Sometimes they bring out a &quot;new&quot; game or movie, thats just a rip off of and older one that was good at the time but has long sinced passed. So yet again you feel misled.<br /> In other words what im trying to say is that companies are fighting an expensive loosing battle, cos in the whole of it, they arnt making anything worth copying, downloading or anything worth protecting becuase you have already at sometime or other played, watched and seen what they have to offer.<br /> I agree that they should protect thier investment the best way that they can, but there will always be someone that can bypass it and others that will want something cheaper. but going about it by only limiting our use of a product by a chip, making us have to be connected to the internet to validate a key, or by having us to constantly type in a 15 digit code everytime we want to play something isnt gonna work! itll just turn people off buying it.<br /> I only really watch a few films now as there isnt much i havnt already seen before in one way or another. I dont go to the cinema as thier overpriced food and drink and uncomfortable seats makes for a bad experienc compared to my living room. Games are becomming too focused on graphics rather than gameplay and with that priced more accordingly! and with that you need a connection to the internet to get fixes for the flaws. Software, i use Linux, and freeware as they tend to be better developed at a fraction of the price of some other brands. <br /> So with companies shouting out about pirates depleating thier sales is nonsense to me, thier sales are going down because of a lack of originality, flawed software and even worse support to end users. They have no-one to blame but themselves but are too proud to see it!<br /> <br /> These views are just my own, and since ive been awake for a long long time, forgive me if ive offended anyone or just made you waste 5 minutes of you time.<br /> Any comments welcome <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile3.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":D" title=":D">