downloadable content is piratable, see mass effect, dragon age etc. heck, even the guys iphone app itself is considdered downloadable content with quite rigorous DRM in place. what would you propose they do differently, or better, next time around? what magical device would you put in place to stop people pirating his next…
If I'm reading BigJohn's posts right, he's saying that piracy is not necessarily a crime due to the fact that the harm caused by it is only hypothetical, and that it actually increases the exposure of the product in question, and that any moral questions are moot as per his perspective on property rights. Now this may seem…
I don't have a magical device. And I don't think piracy will ever be stopped. Don't think I ever claimed otherwise. And how rigorous can Apple's DRM be if in that blog he describes the process as taking 5 minutes, and being easier to get a a pirated app into the iPhone than it is to get a legitimate one? As for a possible…
"I'm not a pirate, I'm just a preemptive nautical salvage expert!" Seriously though, the whole orange simile and the whole "I wouldnt have bought it anyway" argument is complete and utter bull. First of all, games arent an essential foodstuff we would all benefit from having the ability to clone indefinitely. Secondly,…
If you could magically reproduce your oranges, and then handed thousands of them out for free to everyone around the grocery store you just bought it from, how many people are going to be hungry for oranges? Oh, I'm sure there will be some exceptions. Maybe someone liked the orange so much that they decided to go buy…