DRM Makes Pirates of Us All

[Beskar]

You are talking game specific, aka, E:TW.

Don't brand Steam bad because CA can't code for . Valve has one of the biggest developer studios and its games are realised also bug-free other a couple of balancing issues for online play.

With Steam, you aren't renting, you own the account, which you even if you got a brand new computer, you can just sign in and install games on the fly. If anything, it is closer to Xbox Live witht he friends list, etc etc, with ultimately your games pretty much on download for ever because it will be a long time before the system ever goes down.

[ICantSpellDawg]

There is nothign wrong with web piracy when it comes to copyright infringement. I wish that more people would just do it so that it becomes an insignificant blip. Kill copyright with indiference. Stream movies and music - don't download them. Crack games with DRM so that they can be played on any computer, at any time. The digital age has killed this absurd notion, but it is still writhing there, seemingly with life.

They are still demanding your money even though you don't need to pay them anymore. A better system for everyone will rise up from the ashes.



PS - I actually like steam. It is a clever and fair way to regulate both your property and the rights of the company. I agree with Beskar that Empire stinks becasue it stinks. The patches lately have done a pretty decent job of fixing issues taking the game closer to what we all know it is, but steam has nothing to do with the smell of turd. Why do 2nd and 1st rate ships cause the game to crash if you click on them? Why do blocks of trading convoys becoem unusable if you add directly to them without removing them from the trading zone first? Why has nobody ever seen or fought the Pueblo Indians due to CTD? The world may never know. I can't blame steam for this.

[Beskar]

The industry needs to change, yes. Most logical route would be going to way of Stream, and other various things such as BBC iPlayer with streaming media. The same should be done with music.

Punishing legitimate users isn't the way to stop privacy, it only encourages it.