20th February 2010, 2:31 PM
Well I'm just giving a full honest assessment of it, and that requires at least admitting some positives even if the execution is terrible.
I'm certainly not going to defend piracy, but it is a sad thing to realize that yes, pirates will have the better experience. In fact, it's to such an extreme that I myself, should I get a game protected by this method, would probably legally buy a copy and then find a pirate mod for the game to remove the copyright protection. It wouldn't be the first time. The very fact that I occasionally resort to such a paradox speaks volumes.
I'm certainly not going to defend piracy, but it is a sad thing to realize that yes, pirates will have the better experience. In fact, it's to such an extreme that I myself, should I get a game protected by this method, would probably legally buy a copy and then find a pirate mod for the game to remove the copyright protection. It wouldn't be the first time. The very fact that I occasionally resort to such a paradox speaks volumes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)