They'll never BAN cigarettes... banning alcohol simply moved it's market right into the hands of violent mobsters. You'd see the same problem if you banned cigarettes. Besides, what do you DO with contraband cigarettes? BURN THEM? Isn't that kinda of defeating the purpose?
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You know who that would help? Amputees! The instant people start losing hands, there will be a huge profit motive for companies to develop better (and more game controller friendly) prosthetic hands.
I, for one, welcome our new prosthetic wearing, torrent playing overlords.
You know who that would help? Amputees! The instant people start losing hands, there will be a huge profit motive for companies to develop better (and more game controller friendly) prosthetic hands.
I, for one, welcome our new prosthetic wearing, torrent playing overlords.[/QUOTE]
No, they'd just make one handed/no handed controllers for amputees... which isn't a problem for Microsoft, as they already make them. Or at least that's what my friend over at Get Well Gamers told me, when he approached them about getting some for hospitals.
Also, donate any unwanted gaming equipment to them. Child's Play only takes money, but GWG takes used stuff and donates it to hospitals after refurbishing it.
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Kiff
Well... Marijuana has always been illegal (at least for a long while for many people) alcohol and Cigs are different story. They have been around and legal for sometimes. Taking them away is hard like removing a tax that government institute.
There was a time when alcohol was illegal and you saw how that turn out. Can you imagine the government institute a total ban on alcohol and cigs? slap a fine and jail time? (like Marijuana)
it would be a logistic nightmare![/QUOTE]
Untrue. Weed was legal up until around 1913.
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Chibibar
Well... Marijuana has always been illegal (at least for a long while for many people) alcohol and Cigs are different story. They have been around and legal for sometimes. Taking them away is hard like removing a tax that government institute.
There was a time when alcohol was illegal and you saw how that turn out. Can you imagine the government institute a total ban on alcohol and cigs? slap a fine and jail time? (like Marijuana)
it would be a logistic nightmare![/QUOTE]
Untrue. Weed was legal up until around 1913.[/QUOTE]
ok. I stand corrected (got source?) 1913 to present. That is a long while.
GasBandit
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Chibi - our nation tried to ban alcohol entirely in 1920. All it did was create a thriving black market for alcohol which basically created organized crime as we know it. Al Capone made his fortune this way. (Ironically so did Joe Kennedy Sr.... yes, of THOSE Kennedys, which is now why we even know what a Kennedy is at all). It enriched criminals, was entirely ineffective, and was ended in 1933.
Really, our current "war on drugs" is not doing much better but nobody wants to talk about it. All it's doing is putting billions in the pockets of central- and south- american drug lords and sending otherwise non-violent people to jail whose only crime is blazing up a doobie from time to time in the comfort of their own home.
Really, our current "war on drugs" is not doing much better but nobody wants to talk about it. All it's doing is putting billions in the pockets of central- and south- american drug lords and sending otherwise non-violent people to jail whose only crime is blazing up a doobie from time to time in the comfort of their own home.
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I knew about the alcohol one (from history class) I didn't know about weeds ever being legal. I knew tobacco played a huge part in U.S. history.
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Chibibar
but anyways... I guess the whole point of DRM is to prevent casual pirates to pirate games, but with the internet, the casual pirates doesn't even need to pirate since the "big league" will hack anyways and post them on the internet for people to download. So how do you stop them? Catch them, fine them, and jail. Thus far it doesn't really scare some of the big leagues cause people are still pirating music (after all the RIAA has done to many people)
Necro post about leaving your PC vulnerable (turn off anti-virus and firewalls) = no DRM idea.
but I think with the new technology available (internet, streaming, direct downloads) might be the new way of distribution.
Look at the new markets
iTunes - making millions with online sales.
Steam - direct download and verify on the server, sure people can work around that (I don't know but I'm sure someone figure it out) and yet doing pretty well on their sales and make profit.
Physical medias are nice to have (I do have over 900+ DVDs) but maybe the industry have to adapt and find way to still have their DRM but not to annoy customer to no end.
Also physical medias allow pirates to pirate like music. It is easy to rip a CD and upload the contents.
Customers have the responsibility to fight against company via their purchasing power. This method does work. How do you think large organization get special discounts.... mass customer base. The consumer gripes and yet continue to buy games like AC2 so the companies who make these annoying DRM will continue to do so. The rest of us will either "discard" the game forever (those refuse to buy) or have to give in eventually cause the company will continue to do what they want as long there is profit to be made
Is there a happy medium? I don't know. I know personally that games on Steam has made me happy (in the PC realms). Console games are another matter (I usually buy used and sometime new)
Necro post about leaving your PC vulnerable (turn off anti-virus and firewalls) = no DRM idea.
but I think with the new technology available (internet, streaming, direct downloads) might be the new way of distribution.
Look at the new markets
iTunes - making millions with online sales.
Steam - direct download and verify on the server, sure people can work around that (I don't know but I'm sure someone figure it out) and yet doing pretty well on their sales and make profit.
Physical medias are nice to have (I do have over 900+ DVDs) but maybe the industry have to adapt and find way to still have their DRM but not to annoy customer to no end.
Also physical medias allow pirates to pirate like music. It is easy to rip a CD and upload the contents.
Customers have the responsibility to fight against company via their purchasing power. This method does work. How do you think large organization get special discounts.... mass customer base. The consumer gripes and yet continue to buy games like AC2 so the companies who make these annoying DRM will continue to do so. The rest of us will either "discard" the game forever (those refuse to buy) or have to give in eventually cause the company will continue to do what they want as long there is profit to be made
Is there a happy medium? I don't know. I know personally that games on Steam has made me happy (in the PC realms). Console games are another matter (I usually buy used and sometime new)
GasBandit
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And, incidentally, congress.
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