Comments on: Games industry ignores piracy

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:54:54 +0000

The reason the Game industry is doing so well is not DRM and not because they are not sueing. the reason is simple. something the music and movie industry cannot grasp…

The Game industry are inovators. they come out with new ideas, new systems constantly. yes they have much of the same ol scripted stamped out, mass produced clones too but there are also plenty of viriety and origional games as well. that’s the difference.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:44:20 +0000

What we have here isn’t that DRM isn’t cracked. As a previous poster made mention it is a slick request to “help us” without taking it out on the customer in the wording.

All the content folks want their content locked up so you gotta pay for it. The internet opened the way up for people to discuss and discover what others know about the security and hacks that make it a self defeating practice with the DRM.

Personally, I don’t care about the game consoles, don’t own one, don’t want one. I do care about the pc though. The future at present looks no brighter for the pc than what they are attempting to do with consoles. The cartels won’t be happy till the box is locked and in such a manner it will be worthless to the average user. It is already a nightmare to use a pc on the net and expect any sort of privacy. This part will get no better as time goes by. Simply all the content cartels are in it for the money. Nothing else. Whatever brings a dollar will be the ruling factor in it. If they can make a few extra bucks by selling your info, they will.

It is one of the reasons I am so teed at the whole idea of this consumerism and what the cartels want to do to entice you to be a good little consumer. Call me a drop out because more and more I grow less and less fond of microsucks and the rest of them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:55:47 +0000

Try using a different torrent site or two.
Console games are rampant on torrent sites.
The console MODding businesses are thriving.
Some people will mod their consoles but most people never will.
It Doesnt matter how strict the DRM is on a console, somebody will break it eventually and some people will mod.
You’re an idiot.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:54:52 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:50:24 +0000

Actually, no it’s not a positive story.

What it is is pro-drm spin disguised as a positive story.

Read closely enough and forbes faithfully totes the line by explaining that console game developers are being “protected” by stricter DRM in console games.

They are falsely implying that:

A. Game Console Lockdown is working

B. Console games are somehow not proliferated throughout the filesharing networks (a search for XBOX on torrentspy should dispell that one)

C. Computer manufacturers should work harder to lock down their systems with restrictive DRM to help the poor poor pc game developers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:42:43 +0000

You know, this is a positive story. Its saying that even though piracy is running rampant, the game companies dont care that much. What a jerk. You should now go and die.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:09:57 +0000

IT’s easy to download an ISO of a console game. I don’t bother because I’m not much of a gamer.. but it can be done.. and one of my friends used to do it as a hobby.

As far as hacking game consoles being “hard”… oh please! I knew nothing of the innards of an xbox, but wanted a media center, so i typed “xbox mod tutorial” into google and retrieved a step by step guide off the net.

2 weeks and $70 later I had converted my xbox into a media center… the chip also allows me to boot in a “mod disabled” mode allowing me to play console games without problems.