Comments for Hatin' on DRM (and other things) http://invasive-drm.mindriot.as Jan Martin Mathiassen's ranting spot on the internet Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Open letter to the gaming industry by Janos Hodges http://invasive-drm.mindriot.as/index.php/2008/11/29/open-letter-to-the-gaming-industry/#comment-70 Janos Hodges Tue, 12 May 2009 19:42:00 +0000 http://invasive_drm.mindriot.as/?p=24#comment-70 There are a hundred reasons EA must die. They killed Bullfrog and Cancelled Dungeon Keeper 3 to focus on safer projects like Harry Potter. They destroyed Maxis and turned Will Wright's baby into a steaming pile of dumbed down s***, they're focused on marketing almost exclusively to frat boys, they try to gouge gamers on half efforted expansion packs containing mostly content cut out of their original games (often at the expense of game quality), they release broken and unfinished games with great commercial hype then offer very crappy support, they almost never maintain the sites for the game's they've released, they put malware on our computers without warning... Hell I could go on but I think I've said enough. There are a hundred reasons EA must die. They killed Bullfrog and Cancelled Dungeon Keeper 3 to focus on safer projects like Harry Potter. They destroyed Maxis and turned Will Wright’s baby into a steaming pile of dumbed down s***, they’re focused on marketing almost exclusively to frat boys, they try to gouge gamers on half efforted expansion packs containing mostly content cut out of their original games (often at the expense of game quality), they release broken and unfinished games with great commercial hype then offer very crappy support, they almost never maintain the sites for the game’s they’ve released, they put malware on our computers without warning…

Hell I could go on but I think I’ve said enough.

]]> Comment on Open letter to the gaming industry by tgr http://invasive-drm.mindriot.as/index.php/2008/11/29/open-letter-to-the-gaming-industry/#comment-28 tgr Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:24:06 +0000 http://invasive_drm.mindriot.as/?p=24#comment-28 Well, it's not as much of an overtramp on the computer itself, but it's still a problem with how they're just walking all over your part of the "fair use" rights. If you haven't already, check out http://invasive_drm.mindriot.as/index.php/2008/12/05/casual-piracy/ and by all means do a bit of research on your own. I assume I'm right here, but I'm not certain since I haven't researched this as in-depth as I could've. If I am right, though, then it is pretty serious, and I seriously hope they get spanked hard for it, because it is just bloody annoying the way they're just basically bitchslapping us around and the only thing we can do, basically, is whine on forums or not buy their games... in which case we're probably always labelled as pirates and dismissed. But we do need to take a stand if that is the case, before they manage to make too much inroads into our rights, and manage to get it into law. Then we'd really be screwed. Well, it’s not as much of an overtramp on the computer itself, but it’s still a problem with how they’re just walking all over your part of the “fair use” rights. If you haven’t already, check out http://invasive_drm.mindriot.as/index.php/2008/12/05/casual-piracy/ and by all means do a bit of research on your own. I assume I’m right here, but I’m not certain since I haven’t researched this as in-depth as I could’ve.

If I am right, though, then it is pretty serious, and I seriously hope they get spanked hard for it, because it is just bloody annoying the way they’re just basically bitchslapping us around and the only thing we can do, basically, is whine on forums or not buy their games… in which case we’re probably always labelled as pirates and dismissed.

But we do need to take a stand if that is the case, before they manage to make too much inroads into our rights, and manage to get it into law. Then we’d really be screwed.

]]> Comment on Open letter to the gaming industry by ChamPro http://invasive-drm.mindriot.as/index.php/2008/11/29/open-letter-to-the-gaming-industry/#comment-27 ChamPro Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:18:25 +0000 http://invasive_drm.mindriot.as/?p=24#comment-27 I agree with your viewpoints on DRM, but I've been trying to figure out how this translates to a user on a Mac. Since we only run Ubuntu and OS X, many games are out of our reach of playability. Since my girlfriend wants to play Spore, I've been looking into how SecuRom works in the Mac version. Since it seems that Spore is running within Cider (Wine), only the virtual machine contains SecuRom. But of course I'm not sure. I want to make a statement to EA, even if I purchase the game. In a forum post, it was suggested to pirate the game and then mail the money to EA with a letter explaining the reasoning. Sounds like something I may do. I agree with your viewpoints on DRM, but I’ve been trying to figure out how this translates to a user on a Mac. Since we only run Ubuntu and OS X, many games are out of our reach of playability. Since my girlfriend wants to play Spore, I’ve been looking into how SecuRom works in the Mac version. Since it seems that Spore is running within Cider (Wine), only the virtual machine contains SecuRom. But of course I’m not sure.

I want to make a statement to EA, even if I purchase the game. In a forum post, it was suggested to pirate the game and then mail the money to EA with a letter explaining the reasoning. Sounds like something I may do.

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