Boycott HD Formats recommended by former Apple Executive

[feedback]

A former Apple executive is voicing strong opposition to the next generation formats.

About the HD Boycott Site

The purpose of this site is to encourage people to not buy the new high definition DVD technologies which seek to greatly reduce or eliminate the concept of fair use and first sale rights. Our goal is to provide information so each person can make their own decision.

See the link below:

http://writersblocklive.com/boycott/

Regards,

P.S. I have no intention of buying the Expensive HD equipment as long as the equipment and disks that I now use stays available.

[MrTroy]

Good to see that they've moved on to a proper domain instead of a weblog entry (http://www.hdboycott.com).

I support this boycott. Don't get me wrong, I love the HD format itself. But I'm strongly against all the license thingies on HD DVD and Blu-Ray. OK, DVD has it's share too (CSS and MacroVision) but on the two new formats they can actually change the licensing after you've bought a disc.

Thumbs down to DRM :mad:

[dimzon]

I support it too. Actually I support everything wich breaks my FU rights! (including StarForce)

[hailmyname]

ya definitely a good move but honestly i dont think this move can help much to eliminate the risk. a larger step has to be taken for it.

[niknik]

... it's a start.

[Sirber]

I don't buy any StarForce protected games. I want to keep my WS clean and stable.

[niknik]

but send "complaint" email, for every game company you don't buy games because of those absurd copy protections.

That's what I did with Half-life 2. I wanted to play it on a computer without internet access, and in the end had to resort to using a pirated version while keeping my original PAID game in the box! And sent an email to valve, saying it's a pity that such protection schemes often end up hurting legal paying customers more than the "pirates".

For every starforce protected game I'll do just the same.

[dimzon]

I don't buy any StarForce protected games. I want to keep my WS clean and stable.
I too!

[Sirber]

That's what I did with Half-life 2. I wanted to play it on a computer without internet access, and in the end had to resort to using a pirated version while keeping my original PAID game in the box! And sent an email to valve, saying it's a pity that such protection schemes often end up hurting legal paying customers more than the "pirates".There is an offline mode for Steam...

[communist]

There is an offline mode for Steam...
You still have to connect once to decrypt the 3+ GB of encrypted junk - and at the beginning most times the offline mode (HELLO its a offline SP game anyone?) didn even work properly.

[niknik]

at the time, the game required internet connection for activation. Don't know if it has changed now...
Although I understand the advantages of Steam, it's an annoyance for PC's without internet. I just played through HL2 and never gave it another look.

The bottom line is: at the time, I was unable to play a legally bought game because the paranoid "protection" schemes..

When will they learn that there will alway be people pirating stuff. And they should spend their money in making cheaper (affordable) games, instead of paying for such consumer-harassing protection schemes...
The only way piracy will ever stop is when it's as cheap and convenient to buy the original product than the "pirated" one.

Of course, I understand the price of things, myself being a programmer and having to live out of my software. Yes, I don't like people pirating my stuff - but I don't enforce rootkits in my software so that my paying customers get fu**** up.