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fandomsecrets2012-07-16 06:55 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-07-16 06:55 pm
[ SECRET POST #2022 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋
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In other words, should you legally purchase an eBook from Amazon but wish to upload it to your iPod?
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A CRIMINAL.
Would you like to make a digital copy of that Bluray you recently purchased on your laptop so you can upload it to your tablet and watch it in transit?
YOU'RE A CRIMINAL.
Would you like to download countless movies and books for free from The Pirate Bay with the DRM removed and use them however you want?
YOU'RE A.... CRIMINAL!
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Why do companies insist on making pirated copies of materials better than legal copies in every single way? You can read pirated eBooks on whatever reader you want! Pirated movies don't force you to watch 15 minutes of DO NOT STEAL warnings and bullshit advertisements. Why the every living fuck can I buy a 1080p Bluray of the Fast and Furious at Future Shop for $4.99, while an HD digital copy (that I can't lend to a friend and is equally gone forever if something happens to my hard drive) is $24.99?
Full disclosure: I make a decent amount of money. I support those artists/industries of which I am a fan (there are roughly $3000 worth of video games on my shelf for the PS3 alone) but I still will not buy digital copies of anything because I am sick of getting fucked over by DRM and ABOVE. COST. FOR SOMETHING THAT COST LESS TO MAKE. I bought a hard cover copy of the latest release by my favourite author, then left it to rot on my shelf while I pirated a digital copy to read on my eReader because the legal digital copy has bullshit DRM and fucking advertisments that the physical book does not, plus it costs the same fucking amount.
You want me to buy a digital copy of anything? SIMPLE! Make it DRM free (because the gentlemen at The Pirate Bay are going to break your locks anyway, so why are you punishing paying customers?) and make it cost less (even slightly) than the physical copy. I'll snap it up in a heartbeat.
...No? No deal? I won't be buying it then. I'll be demanding my shit on plastic and paper and continue to cost you overhead.
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Holy shit, are you serious? D:
(somewhat rhetorical, because I assume that you are)
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How would you like to pay for full-page ads you can't remove on your own eReader?
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-17 07:17 am (UTC)(link)Do I own a lot of videogames/movies/books? You bet your ass I do! But I refuse to deal with digital bullshit. iTunes won't give you your shit back unless you bitch about it. Activision wants to DISABLE games for Linux users. They do this shit while nickel and diming you a million other ways (hello, DLC!) and I refuse to support it.
Has it made me outright stop buying games from certain companies? Yep. Because the only way you can vote these days is with your wallet.
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And then they lied about having produced it during the time after the product had finished but before it launched for consumers... until a PC gamer found it on the disc. "Oh but it's purely optional" - bullshit. The last member of a race that is integral to the story and provides all of the insight into their motivations, in a heavily story-based RPG, is "optional"? Oh not to mention it was on the disc I bought.
Nope, never buying a Bioware product again. Last $10 you'll ever bilk out of me, when you could have had multiple $60 purchases for years to come. Hope it was good for you.
I am exactly the kind of consumer companies want. I have a large discretionary income that I pour into my hobbies. But I refuse to be fucked over.
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(Anonymous) 2012-07-17 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)I hate owning digital copies. I don't own any digital copies and I refuse to. I HATE HATE HATE when I talk about a game I want and it's only available as a digital copy. I don't trust it, there's too many ways I can lose it. I only want hard copies of everything - and suddenly I'm not allowed to let my friend borrow the game I just finished? But my friend can't afford an $80 game, why can't they play it while I'm not? Okay, I'll work around the encryption.
Wait what now I'm a criminal because I want to lend my shit to my friend? Fuck this shit. I BOUGHT this. This is my hardcopy. If I want to lend it to my friend I damnwell should be able to.
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Can you lend or resell cars? Yep! Books? You bet! DVDs? Yes indeed!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU BUY SECOND-HAND GAMES YOU EVIL THIEF??!!!!
(Shitty thing is, and perhaps more apropos of the OP's original discussion, is that I've seen this attitude crop up amongst comic artists/collectors too. If you lend your books to friends or resell them on eBay the artist doesn't get a cut! You're bilking them out of rightful profit! ...This is why words mean things.)