LOL, DRM = Does it Really Matter? Piracy- what software companies racking in dough use to illustrate they are really broke and need to charge more for less.
Want to stop commercial pirates from making money while increasing your legit sales? Remove DRM, EULA restrictions, and have the discs pressed in the US for more per disc while charging less for the product you're selling then tie the license to needing per-household PKI certificates with corresponding watermarks embedded in the binaries. You won't get joe avg consumer to pay for every copy in their house, but at least you'd know if they leaked a copy of their media somewhere and would increase legit sales in the process due to relaxed EULA and lower prices. After all, who's going to give away their Windows image if it's got their identity all over it? Not to mention who would bother to pirate when one $100 copy of windows can be installed legally on every PC in the house even if it's sans-technical-support from MS? As to the Apple TPM chip BS, frack them, your stuck on their hardware to begin with. Even if someone wanted to ALSO install on their "PC", after paying ransom to apple for a Mac & without additional TS, watermark it then sue the shit out of them if they leak their copy to a 3rd party! We need to get more to accounting for where copies come from and away from trying to prevent them from being made. Fair use with accountability for spreading copies. FORC5 wrote: > piracy is a farce create by BG who knows how to. > Want to stop piracy, allow ppl to own what they buy and install it as many time as they want. problem over. :-! > > MS gets most of their $$$ from the big manufacturers anyway. JMO > fp > > At 02:46 PM 3/29/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with: > >> This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy for their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft than hackable Windows being sold pours in. >> >> Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed such as the BIOS on motherboards. >> >> What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build the authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to start with a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been hacked. >> >> Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would not be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades would be impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only one version, the best! >> >> Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to the CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be carried forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that require new computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an industry that specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that authorized that version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in order to move up to a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new computer with a new CPU. >> >> Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my ideas are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest problem with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft refuses to use a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever heard of altering or flashing a CPU? >> >> Chuck > ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265
