> I do hope law enforcement catches up with these guys sooner rather than later.
Me not. Sony and MS need to be taught that online DRM is a massive customer experience clusterfuck, and they will only listen and learn one way: hit 'em in their pockets. Only when enough customers are angry and demand refunds that it hurts their bottom lines, then maybe online DRM measures will be finally allowed to rot in hell.
The solution is to vote with your wallet and encourage others to do so as well, which will hit their bottom line. Attacking their network is basically acting like a petty thug, and thugs can rot in hell. Besides which, DRM-free solutions already exist for you: support developers who release their games without DRM such as via Humble Bundle, etc. Or just pirate whatever you want since you're apparently okay with illegal activity already.
Maybe I missed it - where do they say they're DDOSing because of online DRM?
And if they are, how does online DRM justify illegal activity? I'm not going to flood someone's shop so they can't open for business because I don't like their product.
If you don't like it, don't buy it, and educate consumers on why they shouldn't buy it either. Boycotts are the most direct way to harm a company's bottom line.
If boycotting and consumer education worked, we would not have this discussion. Console and title sales are through the roof, despite tech-savvy people and press all over the world calling bullshit on DRM.
There's some successful boycotts, when there's a hell of a lot more on the line than just the inability to play COD. They're not doing anything illegal, and they don't need to.
> Console and title sales are through the roof, despite tech-savvy people and press all over the world calling bullshit on DRM. It's time for more drastic measures.
It's never time for more drastic (illegal) measures if someone provides a product you don't like. They're providing a shitty "feature" that frustrates you when your shitty internet connection is down. If it frustrates you so much, don't use it, get your friends not to use it, blog about it, post about it, spread the word. Look what happened to Sim City last year.
Me not. Sony and MS need to be taught that online DRM is a massive customer experience clusterfuck, and they will only listen and learn one way: hit 'em in their pockets. Only when enough customers are angry and demand refunds that it hurts their bottom lines, then maybe online DRM measures will be finally allowed to rot in hell.