Tag: piracy
I thought we were worried about their self esteem.
by schwim on Jul.08, 2009, under MPAA & RIAA
Who remembers this video by the SIIA? It was an early attempt to thwart software piracy and came complete with a goofy but charming and endearing rapper, interviews with game developers that tipped the nerd scale and finally, a game that fit on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It spent almost 10 minutes explaining to you that the game development community couldn’t make more games if it didn’t get paid for the game that you were copying onto your floppy.
So easy, I almost feel guilty
by schwim on May.08, 2008, under MPAA & RIAA, Software
Some may think that I have it in for Microsoft. Not true. I use many of their products and I’m not trying to spearhead a lynchmob.
It’s just that they make it so easy, sometimes.
Take the latest news involving the Zune. It’s likely that a future software update will install a copyright protection scheme that will block any unapproved media from being uploaded to it. This means that Microsoft will determine whether you purchased it via approved channels.
That dvd you ripped at your house? That’s almost guaranteed to be an “unapproved channel”.
The only thing that keeps me from being incensed is that we all get to choose which player we will use and if you get screwed by Microsoft, it’s because you wanted to.
