12-19-2015, 09:25 PM
A key code DRM would make it extremely difficult for paying customers to put the files on multiple devices. For instance, I have AM 6 on my PC, iPhone and a portable mp3 player for when I go jogging, as I don't want to damage my phone. The portable mp3 player is a random POS I bought from some weird store in Manhattan -- it most CERTAINLY doesn't support any kind of DRM. It'd be much easier... to just not pirate the software.
I think you're all overreacting. From what I'm reading, it looks like the AP code isn't even really stopping you from pirating the program, it's just informing you that stealing from a small business is wrong and you STILL have the choice -- without guilt or fear -- of doing it? Look, I'm not on some "cult of Shannon" thing like some of you seem to engage in, but that sounds extremely reasonable, especially when compared to some of the other nonsense I've seen. Honestly, it sounds less like "anti-piracy code" and more like a "stern talking to."
Remember the PC game Serious Sam 2? If you pirated the game, you could play normally for about an hour before the software would spawn this giant, unstoppable scorpion that would hunt you down and murder you. Which would be hilarious if the DRM wasn't faulty and kept spawning the scorpion for legitimate customers... who couldn't enjoy the game for fears of never being able to finish it.
OR, how about Magix software? Purchased Magix Music Maker back in the day, installed it. Activated it. Wouldn't run unless I was online. Formatted my computer because of a virus. Magix Music Maker wouldn't let me install the program again because the DRM lacked the ability to recognize I was installing it on the same machine.
I think you're all overreacting. From what I'm reading, it looks like the AP code isn't even really stopping you from pirating the program, it's just informing you that stealing from a small business is wrong and you STILL have the choice -- without guilt or fear -- of doing it? Look, I'm not on some "cult of Shannon" thing like some of you seem to engage in, but that sounds extremely reasonable, especially when compared to some of the other nonsense I've seen. Honestly, it sounds less like "anti-piracy code" and more like a "stern talking to."
Remember the PC game Serious Sam 2? If you pirated the game, you could play normally for about an hour before the software would spawn this giant, unstoppable scorpion that would hunt you down and murder you. Which would be hilarious if the DRM wasn't faulty and kept spawning the scorpion for legitimate customers... who couldn't enjoy the game for fears of never being able to finish it.
OR, how about Magix software? Purchased Magix Music Maker back in the day, installed it. Activated it. Wouldn't run unless I was online. Formatted my computer because of a virus. Magix Music Maker wouldn't let me install the program again because the DRM lacked the ability to recognize I was installing it on the same machine.
