A SH too far?

[Stormbringer]

Originally Posted by mobucks

i understand and agree completely however, untill the day comes where you can't open up your browser and within 3 pages download any game you want, DRM schemes are only going to get worse.

DRM will only get worse if people buckle under to it and pay money for software with draconian DRM schemes.

If Ubisoft issued this new DRM scheme and nobody bought their new software with it enabled, the message of our dissatisfaction would be very clear. Quite frankly, everyone who bought an Ubisoft product after this DRM scheme went into affect, is part of the problem.

I'm absolutely sure that wasn't their intention, their interest was to play the various games from Ubisoft. They were willing to concede a little liberty for a little eye candy. Or perhaps they never thought of it in terms of privacy. However, the end effect is to support this DRM methodology and to send a message of positive acceptance, not only to Ubisoft, but to all other developers as well.

In essence, they've green flagged this scheme and others like it, for all developers. People might even look forward to office suites and other productivity software imposing a similar scheme in the future, simply because this test bed worked for Ubisoft.

If people had thought it over first and voted with their wallet, it would have stopped here and Ubisoft would have been forced to drop this intrusive system.