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Look at Somalia, years of anarchy have driven its money useless, and have made it controlled by multiple gangs. If the economies collapse, then the government as a whole collapses, and the whole country goes into anarchy, which is a very bad thing. The very basis of Western Civilization relies on Intellectual Property so that the market economies don't collapse. Innovation would die, and so would invention. Without copyright laws the GPL would not even be able to exist, and there would be no point in selling something because anyone could take what you are selling and mark down the prices and drive you out of business. How is a video game no different than a light bulb? When you buy a CPU you don't buy the rights to copy and distribute it, no, you infact just buy the rights to use it and resell it. Under the United States' Constitution it says that the United States must protect the rights of inventors to their inventions. You're a bit off there, if you buy a CPU, you don't readily or easily have the know-how or tools to redistribute it, it is much easier to copy and redistribute data.
So in trying to enforce a rather artificial ownership definition in the above cases, vendors resort to various technological schemes which ultimately inconvenience the intended market and can always be circumvented by those determined enough. However, words, ideas, knowledge, algorithms, procedure, are by their very natures exactly so. GPUs and CPUs are not infinitely duplicable, without input, by anybody that owns one specimen. NVidia doesn't have this problem selling their GPUS.īecause the ownership paradigm is supported by the laws of physics. Intel doesn't have this problem selling their CPUs. They want to sell it to you for money, yet retain ownership. So most DRM amounts to the 'owners' wanting to have their cakes and eat them at the same time. Why, because everybody wants to own (monetize) 'things', even if, by their very nature, they escape into the ether and become available to the community. It is trying to apply the laws of property/material to things that are not. I may be more anti-DRM than others because I believe it is fundamentally wrong headed. On the other end of the spectrum, some DRM platforms limit the machine you can use the product on just one machine (or even worse, one brand) disable components - or entirety - of your machine or OS if it detects an illegitimate copy are prone to false-positive detections of illegitimate copies and act as insidious spyware.
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Once you've bought a game and installed it via Steam, you can play it to your heart's content remove and install it unlimited number of times and move it to other machines and it is not prone to creating inconveniences from false-positive detection of "pirate copies". Intellectual property should be protected, but not at the expense of consumer rights.
It's a form of DRM, but a fairly reasonable one. I truly think that if you break Anti-Trust/Computer Security laws more than once, your company should be broken up, the CEO put in jail, and/or the company's assets frozen.
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Since Sony made SecuROM, I hope that Electronic Arts and Sony are punished to the full extent of the law. However, in bad hands, like Electronic Arts' and Sony's, its sole purpose is to remove all culture, except its own. In good hands, like Valve's, DRM is a great way to protect your IP. It would also fail to install if any popular DVD/CD burning applications were installed on your computer. This lead to several class-action lawsuits against Electronic Arts, due to failing to advertise that these changes/damages could occur, and due to the install upon declining/accepting, it was a direct violation of the Internet Security Act of 1988 in the United States, and also violated anti-trust laws when the creature creator could not be completely removed. So, 16-bit viruses could have a field day on your computer.
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The SecuROM DRM used on spore broke optical drives, due to checks, would install itself even if you declined the license agreement, and stopped Windows Explorer from being able to delete 16-bit files.
Of course, there are cases where DRM systems are buggy and damaging for the legit users, but that's another issue. Some people have rights for intellectual property and want to protect it, if it's digital - then the protection measures are digital.
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