"I'm sympathetic to software devs, musicians, movie makers, etc. who don't want to see their work pirated, I really am. But as a customer, I FUCKING HATE being treated like a criminal when I try to play games, watch movies, etc. that I legitimately fucking payed for."
How is copy protection treating you like a criminal? Do you FUCKING HATE when the website for your bank makes you login with a username/password to prove your identity?
"I don't see how this is a sustainable situation, particularly when each new generation of DRM seems to punish legitimate paying customers harder than the last generation."
If you really want to blame someone, blame the pirates. DRM was created as a direct result of things like Napster and most recently, thepiratebay. Most people laughed in the faces of the software, music, and movie industry. They never offered any kind of solution for those industries to make money and continued to download their work for free. Now, customers are complaining and wondering why there is so much copy protection on software and games.
How is copy protection treating you like a criminal? Do you FUCKING HATE when the website for your bank makes you login with a username/password to prove your identity?
"I don't see how this is a sustainable situation, particularly when each new generation of DRM seems to punish legitimate paying customers harder than the last generation."
If you really want to blame someone, blame the pirates. DRM was created as a direct result of things like Napster and most recently, thepiratebay. Most people laughed in the faces of the software, music, and movie industry. They never offered any kind of solution for those industries to make money and continued to download their work for free. Now, customers are complaining and wondering why there is so much copy protection on software and games.