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Originally Posted by John Channing
If you paid for the game knowing about DRM and you couldn't log on to the servers because of a hacker DOS attack... who is responsible for preventing you from logging on?
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Ubisoft, they're the one providing the
service. They should have considered hackers when they chose to implement DRM. They obviously failed to adequately consider the impact of DDoS; the result being lack of server availability. People paid Ubisoft $50 with the expectation that Ubisoft would provide a game that is playable (after all, Ubisoft did say that DRM would be generally non-intrusive). Thus Ubisoft should have done their homework first and risk mitigated expected events such as DDoS. If they couldn't risk mitigate DDoS to an acceptable level (in line with their non-intrusive claims), then they should have implemented an alternative form of protection. Simple.
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Originally Posted by John Channing
And now... the ubiquitous car analogy.
I buy a car from the dealership, complete with anti-theft devices.
Someone smashes the window and defeats the anti-theft device and steals my car.
Do I call the cops and have the dealership arrested?
JCC
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Erm, poor analogy. In your case it's obvious, a crime has been committed against
you. Although, you may have recourse against the anti-theft device's manufacturer, depending on their warranty/guarantee, so in a way they may well accept some of the responsibility, thus "blame".
In the case of Ubisoft, a crime has been committed against
them...of course
they would pursue the hackers. But the crime has only impacted their
service to you. Different scenario. No crime has been committed against you by anyone, you've only been affected by a service provider's inability to offer a service. Thus, the service provider is the one you should have issues with, not the "evil bad pirates". They're merely the cause. Your agreement is with Ubisoft, not the hackers. As I stated elsewhere, if the cause was a server crash instead, would you be so vehemently against the server manufacturer?
Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't condone piracy, but levelling 100% of the blame to pirates and hackers for the whole DRM fiasco when it was Ubisoft that implemented it is a bit, erm, let's just say "convenient".