Poll: Ubisoft DRM Petition

[Seldon2639]

B)Pirates the game, gets all the fun free of charge and with no headaches from the DMR, and shows a huge protesting finger to the corporate mammoths.

Hurts gaming as a community, makes it more expensive and difficult on people who buy game legitimately, forces companies to take more and more steps to try to protect their property, and generally acts like a selfish git.

 

[Seldon2639]

I'll sign it, definitely. It won't do anything, but fuck it, I'm angry.

My plan is to wait until the DRM has been cracked, buy it legally, and bypass the DRM with a crack.

It's semi-illegal, but I wouldn't play that game normally, not with my internet connection.

Ubisoft's idea is partly illegal, since they want to block piracy by having control, which in part is a privacy violation matter...

There's no provision for "privacy violation" by two private bodies when there's a contractual agreement to accept it. By buying the game, you've waived your right to privacy insofar as the game is concerned, and would be estopped from bringing any suit based on your privacy.

Once you've literally signed away a right, you don't get to claim that the person you signed it away to is violating it.

At least, in America. Maybe somewhere else does it weirdly, but I doubt that any country has limits on how much privacy you can waive by contract with another private entity.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

As a member of the escapist who doesn't have a good internet connection i can understand the problems that DRM will cause.
I can barely play Borderlands for more than 5 minutes. sigh....

 

[Rack]

I'll not sign it because it's a bit dim. Clearly Ubi know that this is going to be unpopular, so the petition has to say more than just "we don't like this"

If you go to the link it is edited more from I posted on the OP.

Whilst not overly complicated, I feel it sufficiently describes why people don't like it and what needs to change.

Should the numbers reach a high enough amount, the general opinion of PC gamers will be displayed regardless of how I've worded it. I'm not going to lie, the half an hour I spent writing it out was hardly enough time to equate to anything I need to write for English coursework, but it gets the message across by stating why we don't like it and asks them to change it.

Besides, even if nothing comes from you signing, there's more of a chance something will happen if you do sign then if you don't.

Here's the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ew15dl94&1

It's not the language I have a problem with but the sentiment, you're not telling Ubisoft anything new, and meanwhile you're contradicting what they believe, and honestly with good reason.

In the past anti-piracy methods have worked and have on occasion hindered attempts to pirate games for weeks or even months. A lot of these systems fall flat but some don't and the nature of this system gives it a very good chance. Ubi are trading good will for security and they are quite aware of this. Telling them that you aren't happy with this or that you don't believe it offers additional security is really saying nothing more than you don't understand the situation. I don't want to tell Ubi this.

In many ways this really is better going ahead. Because it very well might work, rather than just bypass some protection it will be necessary to restructure teh saving system so that it points back to the users own IP address which wouldn't be easy. It could very well be months before this game is cracked. Hopefully we'll see one of two responses.

1) This actually works, pirates actually end up buying the game and it makes a ton of money. In this instance PC gaming will be saved, albeit at a terrible cost.

2) It fails, pirates just don't bother with the game and move onto something else. This will finally settle the idea that software companies can somehow force pirates to buy games if only they make things unpleasant enough for the legitimate users. PC gaming stays in it's death spiral but at least it recovers a little dignity.

Of course if this fails then it doesn't really matter, a working DRM free version of the game will be available relatively easily.

 

[Triple AD]

Erm... I'd recommend outting a "Yes, I am a PC Gamer but I will not be buying AC2"
You could add that as I would want to stop this but I own AC2 on the Xbox 360... So yeah.

 

[dududf]

Signed.

No more Ubisoft products will be bought from my close friends and family.

That's 8 fellow PC gamers, and 3 gamer relatives, then add me.

Fuck off would yeah Ubisoft.