Recent content by Salonista

Which one is true theft, Mr. Pachter? Downloading a *copy* of something that might not have been purchased anyway, or taking money for a product that can be crippled or unusable due to circumstances on the *vendor's* end - and thus instantly devalued - that renders the paid for product a big...

Getting burnt from stupid DRM implementations is a huge reason why I *have* to research games before I buy. I used to buy whatever struck my fancy back in the day. Y'know, like four, five years ago? I am glad to hear someone say physical media will be around for a while. Guess it's the...

@fundayz and mogamer: +1 each. Doctrine of First Sale is written into US copyright law. Says purchasers of copyrighted materials can do as they will with those materials as long as they don't violate copyright law (make and/or distribute unauthorized copies, for example). Your statement...

When only paying customers are being sold the pointy end, yeah, that's abusive in my book. And after being burned by DRM I certainly don't buy first/cry later anymore, since I've gotta read up first or wait to find out the true deal with some of these DRMs. No more impulse purchases anymore, I...

Shame on Shamus making people aware of how they're paying to be abused. Suppose he'd stop writing about it if only they'd stop giving him ammunition, eh?

I'd also like to add that Spore, with all its DRM idiocy, was pirated to literal hell and back. Souplex, you should check out 2DBoy's website for the rundown on piracy numbers from the devs themselves. Their conclusions were basically "yep, got pirated a bunch, just like other games that do...

Perhaps I'm simple-minded, being a 'buy new' type, but this 'devs don't make anything off of used games' concept needs to be taken out back and shot. Why should they?! A serial is a serial, one product = one sale. Films/TV series get bought on DVD and passed around (or viewed by others in...

The twinkly man hate is lulzy (I'm no fan either). But I can understand why such an illustration was chosen: so much of Sims user made content is visible, whereas many other world or fix or gameplay or program mods, for any game, aren't, at least to such a huge degree or widespread extent...

Indigo and LB have it right: modders (the best ones) do it just to do it, and no rightsholder is ever going to give up theirs for a player's. Introducing moneychanging into a hobbyist community is asking for trouble. Don your HAZMAT gear and dip a toe into the Sims2 community to see how...

EA laid off all the wrong people if it took those remaining this long to get this particular clue. Their cred is shit amongst PC gamers with activations and DRM nonsense, nonsense that idealogically blocks people from purchasing even if they want to, which is the height of stupidity...

Ditto! And thanks for this whole indie game series, I really enjoy and appreciate the exposure you're giving these clever devs. :)

2DBoy guesstimated that World of Goo (zero DRM) was pirated about as much as another game that had DRM. What they didn't have to worry about with WoG is the technical crap that DRM like EA's causes for legit customers. I bought it for the Wii, then bought for PC - it's a good game and I...

This page has the lawsuits laid out (there are four, actually, one for Mass Effect PC also), as well as law firm contact info: http://www.reclaimyourgame.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=17&Itemid=57