Comments on: Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

By: Buying Used and Pirating... - Gamingforce Interactive Forums

Buying Used and Pirating... - Gamingforce Interactive Forums — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:08:37 +0000

[...] them. You idiots ruined it for the rest of us, don’t try to act like you’re not responsible. And especially don’t try to flip the issue on them by claiming "DRM causes people to pirate gam… Granted, SecuROM is kind of a bad example to bring up as it has had issues in the past, but still. [...]

By: tonytrix

tonytrix — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:25:21 +0000

he copied the Simpson’s off dvd,read the story;

By: tonytrix

tonytrix — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:23:43 +0000

jlmc727-did you really rob a bank or have you fallen for the “sharing is theft” propaganda,Sharing is Good,but if you did rob a bank(or anyone else) that’s BAD

By: zelrikriando

zelrikriando — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:25:46 +0000

lol do they need to do a study to conclude that??? wtf.. to think people are paid to say that 1+1=2….seriously

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Fri, 29 May 2009 16:33:41 +0000

[...] Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity – Have you illegally copied things? Probably. I’ve copied all my Simpsons DVDs to my computer. Was that illegal? Probably. Do I give a shit? Hell no. [...]

By: Christoph

Christoph — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:55:47 +0000

DRM did push a lot of people over the line … I have a valid copy of game (NWN2) that I cant use – my DVD drive will come up with error due to Sercure ROM protection …

The solution is to download a torrent – worked fine !

Now if this happens a few time – the lesson for a normal user is simple – why go out buy a valid copy that give me a hard time if I can just download a copy (illegal) that works …

Most tech people in the business said it was going to turn out to be a bad thing – but the sales wanted to have it that way …

By: TheHoldSteady

TheHoldSteady — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:01 +0000

“…then do what it what you want.”

Pretty sure this is a line from a Beastie Boys song.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:06:35 +0000

There was an excellent comment on this sort of thing on a forum I browse regularly. Someone commented on a movie they had bought

“I had to watch that stupid ‘don’t pirate movies!!!’ message even though I’d bought the stupid movie. The DVD won’t let you skip it!”

First reply: “Know who doesn’t have to watch that clip? The pirates. Booyah.

By: Gryphyn

Gryphyn — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:44:56 +0000

I buy every game I play. I also crack nearly every game I play so I don’t have to put up with the DRM bullsh!t.

I can find a way to pirate anything I want in about 5 minutes, and I’m not a freaking genius.

DRM does nothing to stop pirates.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:54:42 +0000

DRM does absolutely nothing to stop piracy. Nothing at all.

Pirates do not see something with DRM on it and say “omigod! run away!”

No… they say “eh, so what?” and carry on

All it does is agitate ligitmate customers.

High quality intelligently priced products will beat piracy everytime. DRM never will.

By: Jlmc727

Jlmc727 — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:49:46 +0000

Wow Now I feel better about robbing the bank it wasn’t my fault I was broke. When are people going to grow up and take some responsibility instead of its not my fault it won’t work here. If you purchased the the Simpsons DVD no, but I am betting you copied from TV, because it was convenient and free.