How do you protect your right to piracy?
Nimrod:
Okay, Zazazu, you're right, I apologize. It's just that the scene has suffered severly because of P2P methods. But alas, to each his own, ARRR.
And our Presidente is a riot! Road kill imagery on such a stuffed stomie though, that's tough. :-X
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Nimrod on 2009 June 14, 23:44:22
Okay, Zazazu, you're right, I apologize. It's just that the scene has suffered severly because of P2P methods. But alas, to each his own, ARRR.
Then the "scene" is suffering the same malaise as the industry: Failure to adapt to the changing landscape. Just like the industry, it must learn to adapt and become stronger and more efficient, or die. It is the way of things: The strong survive, the weak perish.
Nimrod:
True, but I wouldn't consider any P2P method, what with its many restrictions, such as low bandwidth and reliance on end-users, to be something that is stonger nor more efficient to the trusty news servers. Which, with the fact that there continues to be a premium cost, the evidence is clear that some things are simply worth those costs. I'll gladly pay the fee and have my nice, single channel connections that blast my stuffs to me at full 1.5 MBps sppeeedz, with no IP sniffs logging my activities to boot! Heh, perhaps that's the crop cream, pay just a little for true anonymity... at least until "they" decide otherwise, becuase right now, usenet is the only thing not being fucked with, except the idiots that are flooding it with old trojans and various maleware.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Nimrod on 2009 June 15, 00:57:19
True, but I wouldn't consider any P2P method, what with its many restrictions, such as low bandwidth and reliance on end-users, to be something that is stonger nor more efficient to the trusty news servers. Which, with the fact that there continues to be a premium cost, the evidence is clear that some things are simply worth those costs.
See PURPOSE DEFEATING. If you're going to PAY MONEY for that, you've defeated the entire point!
Kyna:
Your earlier suggestion that the price is the reason most people ARR is missing a point that is very relevant in the Sims community.
Many of the simmers I know that ARR their games (myself included) did not start ARRing until BV & SecuROM. For this group of simmers, it's not about the cost of the game or not being able to afford the game, it is about refusing to pay for spyware that damages computers - including the computers of my adult daughter and at least one other person we know in real life.
As TS3 does not come with a version of SecuROM that installs itself onto your computer, my daughter and I have returned to buying the game. Yes, we ARRed the pre-release version, but on release day we headed down to the local computer store and each of us handed over our $100 AUD to purchase the game - that's about $80 USD each. We could each have paid for a couple of nights out at local restaurants for that.
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