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0 comments by NewMessageN00b on Jun 8th, 2009 digg this super bookmark

First of all, read this: Bbc.co.uk.
If you don't feel like reading it - the article handles about the never-ending media copyright issue.
Some say  it should be free, some, in turn, envision layers of beuraucratic stuff as a filler...

Anyway, people should understand that selling media is not the same as selling property - it is all about the feeling in your gut or head... or... whatever.
If you can't sell a good feeling (that the media produces), then you're good for shit. And don't count the media formats.
People do say thanks in many ways to the feeling sellers, it's just the bubble has been inflated so huge with all the media player hardware and software... the additional costs, it would seem to the customer, as if the feeling is not that important anymore.

All the huge 'media barons' complain about stuff being stolen, hacked, lost, whatever-ack'd...
They immediately count it as a market loss and start yelling as if they shit their pampers.

If you, the media baron, haven't signed an agreement with media player manufacturers for a certain amount of payback on each sold unit and made the actual media be easily available as free downloads through a service solution, then... go... you, the media baron, you know where to go. 

But... wait...?!

One of the comments on that article really got my attention:

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7. At 5:09pm on 08 Jun 2009, DarrenGriffin wrote: Why is it always the 'media barons' who are cited as the losers when piracy and file sharing is debated? I run a small company compiling 'data' that is constantly ripped off and shared on various sites and forums. This causes our business great damage and threatens our livelihood.

We work hard and it is heartbreaking to see it stolen. The everything FREE culture is just plain wrong, we have a right to a reward for our hard work and if we stop this service then everyone will lose access to it.

There is no 'right' to free data and those who propose otherwise are fools who fail both fail to realise that much of this data will vanish if it continues to be abused and also have clearly never had their own hard work ripped off in this way.
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My answer: Change the job!
The way he described it, stuff sums up pretty good here: the market is equalizing.
The bubble bursts and your company goes bust - new ways of delivering value have to be found (aka the customers have found more appropriate ways to get your shitty content or to bypass the thick layer of bull excrements.)

2 comments by NewMessageN00b on May 9th, 2008 digg this super bookmark

What has the gaming become? Houston, we're on a sharp slope down!

People, we have to revive it right now or we will have to face the consequences of having braindamage from the "games" that get released. Those aren't even games, they're just a load of files with random content, where the same story is being played over and over again.

What happened to the innovation? Creativity? Quality?

Gaming has turned into the same "thing"... same thing that is our food now... it is junk made especially for the masses. Full stands of cheap games.

Why am I flaming like this?
Well, not because some games are really badly made, but it's because we're getting forced to buy this (heh, sorry for the bad language here) CRAP!

How are we getting forced?
Have you ever bought a game thanks to its "authorization" and soon realized that it was ultimately stinking the whole way? And, have you ever bought a game for its online play and realized that it stinks as the tail of a skunk? Thanks for the almighty Copy-protector!

But in reality, the copy protection gets cracked, we try out the SP before even thinking about MP. Now what?
I've read an article that a new copy protection system is breing introduced... it will now check for a valid cd-key each 20 days, whenever you start the game.
News.com 
O_O What the?! I hope that statement is a huge spelling mistake.

Thanks for lousy developers not making good stuff, making us crack stuff and not want to buy it. It has stinky-leg protection in the front, being itself the worst of the worst that was ever made.
I'm shocked.