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Offline Kosh

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DRM is not about piracy
on: January 16, 2007, 06:53:40 pm
It's about hollywood making massive amounts of money at the expense of the consumer. :rolleyes:

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2007, 06:57:40 pm
Duh? :D
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #2 on: January 16, 2007, 07:50:01 pm
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #3 on: January 17, 2007, 04:04:33 am
Of course it is. Just like region locking was never about "Maintaining release dates" or any of that crap but was actually really about preventing people from buying cheap DVDs from overseas.

Personally I don't see why the EU didn't just investigate the matter for being a price fixing cabal. It's not like the 10% of profits penalty that they can legally extract from the companies for doing this wasn't a damn good reason for doing it.
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #4 on: January 17, 2007, 04:07:23 am
Apparently - and this is unconfirmed - Ursus arctos frequently deposit faecal matter in the woods.
 

Offline Edward Bradshaw

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #5 on: January 17, 2007, 05:37:14 am
Quote from: karajorma on January 17, 2007, 04:04:33 am
Of course it is. Just like region locking was never about "Maintaining release dates" or any of that crap but was actually really about preventing people from buying cheap DVDs from overseas.
I dont even care about that, I just dont want to be screwed in the ass because Region 2 always seems to have less extras than Region 1.
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #6 on: January 17, 2007, 09:31:12 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on January 17, 2007, 04:07:23 am
Apparently - and this is unconfirmed - Ursus arctos frequently deposit faecal matter in the woods.

You must mean Ursus Horriblis.
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #7 on: January 18, 2007, 03:05:20 am
Quote from: ngtm1r on January 17, 2007, 09:31:12 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on January 17, 2007, 04:07:23 am
Apparently - and this is unconfirmed - Ursus arctos frequently deposit faecal matter in the woods.

You must mean Ursus Horriblis.

Nope.
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #8 on: January 19, 2007, 04:27:55 pm
Well, polar bears don't have woods to defecate in, soooo...
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #9 on: January 19, 2007, 04:57:45 pm
Quote from: ngtm1r on January 19, 2007, 04:27:55 pm
Well, polar bears don't have woods to defecate in, soooo...

Ursus arctos is the brown bear.  The polar bear is Ursus maritimus, although it is a member of the brown bear family.

I looked it up, y'see.  :)
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #10 on: January 19, 2007, 05:03:00 pm
Ursus arctos is the name of common brown bear, which has population all over the northern hemisphere. Then there are all kinds of third parts to the name, defining sub-species. Ursus arctos horribilis is actually grizzly bear, it's bigger than normal brown bear. Kodiak bear is Ursus arctos middendorffi [sic].

American black bear is Ursus americanus, and polar bear is Ursus maritimus, etc. etc. In general, bears belong into family Ursidae, and what is usually conceived as "bear" would be members of subfamily Ursinae...

What is disturbing is that I didn't need to use wiki to remember these ones. Nevertheless, here's the wiki link... :nervous:

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #11 on: January 19, 2007, 11:00:07 pm
yea we got bears here
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #12 on: January 19, 2007, 11:21:48 pm
Quote from: Nuke on January 19, 2007, 11:00:07 pm
yea we got bears here

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #13 on: January 22, 2007, 12:44:05 pm
A fantastic M$ quote about DRM just lifted from the BBC news website.

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Microsoft admitted that the CPU will be taxed further but Mr Marsh said "Vista's Content Protection features were developed to carefully balance the need to provide robust protection... while still enabling great new experiences..."

 :lol:

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #14 on: January 26, 2007, 09:19:53 am
we all know DRM manages rights in the same way prison manages freedom
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #15 on: January 26, 2007, 01:49:39 pm
If it wasn't for the fact that DX10 is Vista only, no one would upgrade.
 

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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #16 on: January 26, 2007, 04:41:37 pm
DX10 does look prety sweet.
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #17 on: January 26, 2007, 05:17:49 pm
Quote from: Unknown Target on January 26, 2007, 01:49:39 pm
If it wasn't for the fact that DX10 is Vista only, no one would upgrade.
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Re: DRM is not about piracy
Reply #18 on: January 26, 2007, 05:44:19 pm
Everyone who knows anything about anything in the tech world knows exactly what DRM is for and everyone knows that its not about piracy at all.
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