Dear MPAA/RIAA and video game industry,
here is a list of things that drive people towards piracy
Since the various industries don’t seem to understand, I thought I help them out a bit and show them what they are doing wrong.
- DRM
- Unskippable shit
- FBI warnings
- Regional releases
- Price
- Stop behaving like huge dickheads
From the Ubisoft always online DRM fail to the Avatar wont work with Blu-ray players disaster, DRM is a guaranteed method to annoy the shit out of paying customers. Why would I buy a product that is broken by design when I can download a fixed version for free? Why are you trying to prevent people from making a private copy which isn’t illegal in most countries in the first place?
Ok, now I bought your product and want to watch, play, listen to the damn thing. I got it to run somehow despite you making it really hard with your fabulous DRM. What do I get? 10 minutes of freaking advertising. The best thing is I can’t even skip it. If I had downloaded the thing I would not have to cope with that. I could just watch or play it.
Are you fucking kidding me? I bought it. I am not the criminal. People who downloaded it don’t see that shit. And even if they did, they don’t care.
Today is the release of this major Blockbuster movie I just have to watch. I go down to my local dealer only to hear that it is released in the states and that the rest of the world has to wait another month or so. Hmm, I could download it and watch it now, or I can wait until the hype is over, forget about it and don’t watch it at all.
$50 – 70 for a game which I play through in 10 hours? $39 for the Avatar Blu-ray? Thats a bit much, don’t you think? Btw didn’t anyone tell you that 20€ is not the same as $20?
This might be most important point. Why would I buy stuff from people who I don’t like. Every time I read news about the MPAA or alike it’s about them treating customers like shit or some new piece of legislation to even further criminalising normal people which was created under the pressure of some anti-piracy lobby. Seriously your product is ok but if you don’t stop behaving like total assholes people aren’t going to buy your stuff anymore.
Those are the things I came up with. Am I being to harsh or did I miss something? Please let me know what you think in the comments.
“Would i have downloaded the think I would not have to cope with that.” First, your English is appalling. Second, can you please show me what disc features 10 minutes of unskippable content before the feature. I’ve often heard of this mythical disc… but have yet to actually see it.
michael is dumb
@Michael: Nice try MPAA/RIAA. I bought the goddamned disc, why the fuck can’t I watch my goddamned movie right fucking now?
Seriously? Pick a DVD and try to bypass the advertisements. Sherlock Holmes is the first that comes to mind. But the author may have gotten it wrong, I personally think it’s 15 minutes of unstoppable hell. Oh wait, let’s get a kid’s DVD like Over the Hedge so that they can be reminded of all the things that they should bug me about because I haven’t purchased them yet. Or better still, the kid’s DVDs that talk about what’s coming so you couldn’t buy it if you wanted to.
Periodically, being discombobulated can cause extreme anxiety that has the potential to adversely affect (some might say effect) a person’s ability to type coherently. Once upon a time, it would have impacted one’s ability to rant in a coherent manner, in this digital age, our typing suffers.
Initial thoughts, more percolating.
Ciao
@Michael
Stop being the grammar police.
You obviously have never bought a DVD, or else you would understand
You obviously don’t play games that require you to be connected to the internet to play if you buy them legit
You are obviously a troll
Ummmm….Simple bypass for the ads. Press stop twice then press play.
Learn to work the system instead of complaining about it.
@Michael
My brain exploded on the same sentence. It makes it hard to take this guy seriously when he sounds like a 5-year old.
Sorry guys, I was being a total faggot. Forgive me, I have a huge black dick in my ass.
I’m sorry…I’m a huge douchebag…
I think inferior product should be the number 1 reason. Put out good movies/music and people might buy it. I say might because they probably wont. But seriously, most movies/music is garbage.
@Michael
You might be a troll, but you are still right. My grammar should have been better. I´ll try to fix that tomorrow when im sober.
On topic:
Every DVD I can think of has unskippable ads at the beginning but I might have exaggerated the duration of said ads.
@ExFiler
Why are you not getting laid?
Try picking up the soap in the prison shower instead of complaining about it.
the point is – I bought your fcking DVD – and now you are forcing me to watch MOSTLY your OWN commercials for YOUR next movie YOU want me to buy (unskip).
btw. Fast Forward works most of the time (sad dvd std.)
Attn: Michael, a.k.a. Richard Head. I have a Sherlock Holmes DVD with a SEVEN minute intro- a bullshirt ‘commercial’ for the publisher’s other DVD titles. The intro cannot be bypassed. You can’t FF, can’t chapter+, can’t manually enter a chapter number to get to the movie main menu. So stick that in your shoe and walk a mile on it. Seven minutes feels like 15 when you’re watching boring commercial crap. So please STFU.
Add this to the list…. NOBODY CARES to watch the dipshirt intros for the publisher, movie company etc. The Paramount, TriStar etc. animations. Even the Lucasfilm THX thing is beat and has overstayed its welcome. All I want to do is watch the movie.
7 minute unskippable content?
I’m so glad I threw out my dvd-player years ago.
mkv ftw
I have the Sherlock Holmes Dvd in now, and it has 9:27 of previews you can’t skip.
@admin
Here’s a couple more things that could fit on your list:
1. Any form of media, whether it be books, TV, movies, or video games are impossible to find new after a year or two of coming out, only used, which doesn’t go into their pockets anyway, so they don’t factor in to them making more, which is the reason I buy new stuff when I could get it pirated. Why get them used when we could get them for free easily, if only they’d stop being so anal and shutting down websites that have content that they aren’t even making money on anymore.
2. I can’t remember where this quote came from, but it fits my next point well: “The law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it”. Ever since the invention of the internet, this has gone even further than that, it is no longer possible to enforce copyright law at all, because for every one person that is jailed for violating it, countless more are violating it with impunity, and more will always be on the way. Besides, it’s pretty much impossible to prove whether a website is legal at any time, and even if it is legal, it could be illegal in only the next few seconds.