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Digital Rights Management- Do you think companies should put DRM on products?
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It will be on the Music Industry and Piracy - how piracy has affected the music industry over the past decade or so and the damage it has caused to the music industry. Going to go into some detail into people's opinions on downloading music but I need to sort out all of the ethical approval first.
I don't like piracy, but many people are forced into it because there is no better way to get something..
TV shows should come out online right after or at the same time that they are aired, something like 50p or 75p for HD per episode and people would be all over it. Once you have your episode it's DRM free and you can do whatever you want with it. Having to wait for a DVD/blu ray release is a joke, I don't watch TV and don't want to, adverts knack me off too much
Music piracy isn't an issue imo, personally I only ever buy cd's then rip them myself. If I like an artist / band, I'll just buy the whole discography. They are cheap and easy to buy, with services such as we7 / itunes / spotify, there is a large range of places to buy DRM free music from, this is a good thing. Most new music is junk / crap so I wouldn't buy it, let alone download it illegally
With pc games, I can understand simple drm like the sort you get with Valve games. Steam has a few problems, but on the whole it's an awesome product, it's success speaks for itself.
Ah that's cool- more than happy for to help if you need anything as my diss is on closely related, good luck with it as well!
bledd. said:
Some excellent input there bledd. Know exactly what you mean as well- thanks again
no one is forced into piracy. None of the stuff that people pirate is essential.
Provided that the license of ownership for that particular Game has been paid for by the original buyer of the game, and that the terms of agreement allow that original purchaser to then sell on that game, then yeah tis legally acquired- very interesting point you raise though- have you ever found people to "Scam" you with second hand games? IE bind the serial to their account and then send you the same serial. thanks for your input though as well!
No, thankfully. I only tend to buy console games preowned, and most of them are not tied to your account for online play i.e. no keys or anything. If they did try to pull that, I'd just send them the sales of goods act and a request for a refund - item not as described i.e. multiplayer component not working. The only exception that comes to mind is BC2 which requires second hand owners to pay an extra £5 or something for extra weapons from the start, but I'm not sure if that was for consoles, PC or both.
I wouldn't buy nearly as many games as I do if I couldn't get them preowned, and I think high street retailers would suffer too; my local Game and Gamestation have equally sized new and preowned sections and they tend to fly off the shelves. The argument is that producers lose out on potential earnings, but I feel that this is negated when the seller uses the money to buy another game. That's just my point of view anyway
Then you do without? Where does this feeling of entitlement come from?
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DRM on music and video is the most frustrating. Most people only have one games system, so can live with the DRM (Though we would still rather it not be there) but with most people have multiple music players (Home, Personal, Car, Work) DRM on music can cripple you.
Who said they feel entitlement?
This isn't the first time you've went on about entitlement.
It has 0 to do with entitlement and all to do with possibilities.
You don't have to feel you are entitled to something to go and download it.
It's available, that's the option to get it.
You have the option whether you pay for it or not when it comes to piracy and legal media.
Not many people are particularly bothered about piracy, I think you'll find you're in a minority and on that basis, when you simply can't get something at all, what will most people do? They'll find a download for it.
Generally from the justifications some pirates use. Words like "forced" for example.