One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
- Gabe Newell, co-founder of videogame company Valve, which publishes Portal and Half-Life via AllThingsD (via marksbirch)
Someone who gets it.
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100% true. iTunes and Steam both prove it. DRM is a shitty product - always has been and always will be - because the actual entertainment piece attached to the DRM inherently suffers for its inclusion.
Bottom line: your anti-piracy product only serves to demonstrate the appeal of piracy.
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Goals for 2012: If I can’t watch it streaming, legally, I will not watch it. I will not pay for a service that interrupts my shows with advertising (I’m looking at you, Hulu Plus).
If HBO won’t let me get a streaming-only subscription without a CATV subscription, I wont’ watch their shows - until, maybe, they’re on Netflix or Amazon. I will not give them the satisfaction of pointing to yet-another-pirate as impetus behind idiotic business practices. If they don’t want to take my money… shame on them.
It should be noted, however, that Steam is filled with DRM.
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