Agreed. Personally, I wait until games are 20 dollars before buying, and I like to BACK UP MY INVESTMENT by making a backup copy that I play of my game or making it so that I don't have to have the EASILY SCRATCHED DISC in the drive all the time spinning when the game is installed to my hard drive already.
Get rid of that STUPID having to have the disc in the drive in order to play, then we can talk.
Actually, no, it isn't because under FAIR USE you have the right to make backup copies of your DVD's and CD's. If you have to bypass 'copy protection' in order to use those legal copies of your games? Too bad, the DRM shouldn't have been included in the first place.
I would MUCH rather they go after people and corporations that are selling pirated games KNOWINGLY than Mr. Joe Schmo off the street, who wants to protect his 60 dollar+ investment.
Ah, but you have a right under "Fair Use" to make a backup copy of your DVD's and CD's in case the original gets hosed.
If you have to remove the DRM on an XBox in order to do that? Too bad, Microsoft shouldn't have allowed the DRM in the first place in my opinion.
I would rather they simply go after people and businesses that are KNOWINGLY selling pirated games than going after Joe Schmo who wants to backup his disc so that his son doesn't accidentally scratch it and make a 60 dollar investment or more worthless.
It shouldn't be a case of 'disallowed by law' here. You should be able to do WHATEVER YOU DAMNED WELL WISH with your legally bought product, and it's only when they find you doing something like pirating (which modding does NOT automatically prove, there is such a thing as PLAYING A BACKED UP COPY TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT!) that the legal penalties come in.
In fact, the Constitution is very blunt on that score that laws that try to dictate to you what you do with your own property, unless you are causing a risk of physical injury to someone else, is your own business and NOT the government's.
Which is why we need to have a Constitutional challenge to the DMCA, which would get it thrown out immediately.
Personally, I just IGNORE the DMCA and say "If you want to come after me, go ahead.... but I'm going to file a countersuit against you if you ban my console or do anything else!"
Works fine for me, no one has DARED to challenge me on this because they know they would lose the cases.
Ah, but to deny them the service is for illegitimate reason (fears of hacking that don't exist, etc.) would leave those companies open to litigation.
It's time to just say "NO DRM!" and move on, allowing people to modify their consoles if they do wish to without having to worry about legal repercussions.
If the 'anti-piracy' idiots don't like that? Too bad, so sad, they just have to live with it!
Any Mouse, right in one. I keep on bringing that up that 'marriage' is just a form of legalized prostitution if you look at it with a jaundiced and logical eye.
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Funny, I'm a reasonable person of ABOVE AVERAGE intellect, and I support the tool maker on this, as so my parents and various relatives who I have shown this to.
No, it doesn't 'devalue their trademark' because they are not in the market right now.
Trademark is NOT meant to cover things that are totally OUTSIDE the business that the people are in, unless they have ALREADY SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH SOMEONE ELSE to endorse their product before this product comes out.
No,it doesn't. The judges should slap down companies that try that bull, and put penalties against their lawyers (such as jail time) for daring to argue that.
Actually, there is some caselaw in this: it basically states that derivative works are okay AS LONG AS you are not portraying them as the work of the first person or company who made the thing you are deriving something from AND you are not trying to make money off the thing in question.
Guys, there should be no issue over this. There are NOT two separate products sold under two numbers in Canada and America. They are usually the SAME DAMNED THING, just packaged different with Canadian (French) language being dominant or American (English) language being dominant.
There is NO FRIGGING REASON why either or both of those subsidiaries should not honor the warranty.
Ah Ah Ah..... I know quite a few people in government who are VERY intelligent. It's only when you get past the LOCAL (town) government level that you start to see increasing numbers of the braindead walking show up in government.
Even then, it is a wide brush that doesn't fit everyone that you are using there.
Actually, no, they cannot. The Right to Free Speech was stated by our Founding Fathers MANY MANY times to mean that NO ONE could interfere with another person's right to free speech.... whether on pubic OR PRIVATE property.
And if the doctors wanted to take that to court as a First Amendment violation, they would win.
There are a LOT of things that businesses try to 'sneak' into agreements that are BLATANTLY illegal.
Hotel guests bringing them in? I think not. I have looked in my home, and I haven't been able to find these pests. I'm also NOWHERE NEAR what you would call a 'neat freak' either.
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Get rid of that STUPID having to have the disc in the drive in order to play, then we can talk.
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I would MUCH rather they go after people and corporations that are selling pirated games KNOWINGLY than Mr. Joe Schmo off the street, who wants to protect his 60 dollar+ investment.
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If you have to remove the DRM on an XBox in order to do that? Too bad, Microsoft shouldn't have allowed the DRM in the first place in my opinion.
I would rather they simply go after people and businesses that are KNOWINGLY selling pirated games than going after Joe Schmo who wants to backup his disc so that his son doesn't accidentally scratch it and make a 60 dollar investment or more worthless.
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In fact, the Constitution is very blunt on that score that laws that try to dictate to you what you do with your own property, unless you are causing a risk of physical injury to someone else, is your own business and NOT the government's.
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Personally, I just IGNORE the DMCA and say "If you want to come after me, go ahead.... but I'm going to file a countersuit against you if you ban my console or do anything else!"
Works fine for me, no one has DARED to challenge me on this because they know they would lose the cases.
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It's time to just say "NO DRM!" and move on, allowing people to modify their consoles if they do wish to without having to worry about legal repercussions.
If the 'anti-piracy' idiots don't like that? Too bad, so sad, they just have to live with it!
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Trademark is NOT meant to cover things that are totally OUTSIDE the business that the people are in, unless they have ALREADY SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH SOMEONE ELSE to endorse their product before this product comes out.
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There is NO FRIGGING REASON why either or both of those subsidiaries should not honor the warranty.
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Even then, it is a wide brush that doesn't fit everyone that you are using there.
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There are a LOT of things that businesses try to 'sneak' into agreements that are BLATANTLY illegal.
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