Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says
by mehwoot on Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:25AM
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Can you provide the link for the peer-reviewed study that says all that?
Why should the onus be on the party making the DRM? It is their product and their copyright, why should they have to prove it is effective?
Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says
by Natsu on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:10AM
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You've misinterpreted what I said completely if you think they should be compelled to do that, rather than for it being a waste of money. One would do something more like A/B testing, anyhow. The fact that GOG.com makes good money off of old games with the DRM removed could be considered evidence. Publishers are certainly free to waste money if they want to, it's simply not good business. Right now, we know it costs money and available evidence indicates that it doesn't help at all.
I don't really think you want them to fail, so I can't see why you would argue that they should continue wasting money?
DRM costs money (dev time, QA, etc.) and may hurt legit customers when done wrong (all too frequent). Rightfully, the onus should be on proving it to be worth the costs, but people add it without even testing the effects.