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Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Oct 14, 2008 6:41am PDTHey hey hey, welcome to Tuesday. This means two things.
First, those in North America should be able to find Dead Space in stores tomorrow. I think it's worth a look, as I came away impressed, and a little scared.
Second, we're one day closer to Friday, which, coincidentally, is when my Xbox 360 comes back from ye olde repair shop. Come home soon darling, I miss you :(
Oh, and if you're one of those Diablo fans, you pretty much need to check out the mind-boggling display of Diablo 3 information that Nick has compiled in his Diablo 3: What We Know So Far preview.
You know, I'm wondering how much of this piracy EA and other publishers try and prevent has anything to do with torrent sites and cracked exes. I mean, everyone generally assumes that DRM is attempting to prevent a glut of torrent downloads, even then I think a good % of the piraters would never buy half the games they steal even if piracy became impossible. Time and time again, no DRM actually prevents it and I would think that publishers are aware of this.
So, maybe the DRM is largely there to prevent casual pirating by people who hardly even know what a torrent is, but pass their copy of Spore around to friends and family? Draconic install-count/machine-spec limitations would go a long way to halt that kind of piracy.
I'm mostly thinking aloud here and have no factual knowledge to back up my speculations. What do you all think? I was going to post this in the EA DRM article but FP threads rarely have real discussion...
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I think there's a pretty huge difference in terms of the potential effects of books being free to anyone, and games being free to anyone.
I mean really...if you never had to pay to buy a game...would you? I know I wouldn't...there's a lot of other stuff I could (and probably should) spend my money on.
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