iTunes …. Proved right

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

not true

its piracy as the distributer calls it

EA punts SecuROM-less games on Steam

And in ('most of') Europe, too

www.theregister.com

EA is probably keen to sell its wares on any reasonably secure platform because digital distribution (with or without DRM) prevents customers from reselling their games. More and more big game companies are becoming vocal about the used game market, which they believe is stealing their profits.

but was piracy the decline of the sales nope

Piracy: Is it Killing the PC Gaming Industry?

Palm Bay, Fl. (PRWEB) August 31, 2006 -- At the latest QuakeWorld, id co-owner Kevin Cloud, in response to an audience members question about the issue, stated

www.prweb.com

I'm struggling to see the relevance to the post you quoted tbh.

I mearly outlined steams beginings?

Second link is a rehashed article from 2006

Piracy had been rife within pc gaming since the very beginning. Pc gaming is still thriving despite the **** poor practice of releasing betas as a finished product and patching it when the flack starts raining down. Or poor console ports that barely make use of the grunt most will have. Both the above hit sales hard during the period of the article you linked


Could you perhaps point me to a period of time when pc gamers have ever shown much interest in selling there games. Second hand game shops like cex/game sprung up thanks to consoles

 

[ChrisBailey]

Reminds me of a story a few years ago about a Tesla.
Wont be long until people are loading in custom software jailbreak style to get around this.

Tesla seems to be stripping software features when cars are resold - Autoblog

Jalopnik has run stories on the experiences several people have had after buying used Teslas, in which features on their car's Monroney had been removed.

www.autoblog.com

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Reminds me of a story a few years ago about a Tesla.
Wont be long until people are loading in custom software jailbreak style to get around this.

Tesla seems to be stripping software features when cars are resold - Autoblog

Jalopnik has run stories on the experiences several people have had after buying used Teslas, in which features on their car's Monroney had been removed.

www.autoblog.com

That's low.

Just a way for them to try and grab more revenue.
Bet they don't honor it the other way

Chap trades his old Tesla in for new and gets all his paid for upgrades back. Not bloody likely

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

I used to spend literally hours ripping old trance tunes etc off the internet, limewire was my friend, and then a youtube ripper. Ive a hard drive full, and used to have an easy to use drag and drop mp3 player. It got me through many happy hours in the gym. Once I got an apple shuffle thing life got a lot more difficult, I probably couldnt even remember how to put different stuff on there nowadays, assuming it still works. Things have moved on since then, can’t remember when I last pulled the old laptop out to do anything, and the mp3 rippers probably dont even work anymore. Wireless earbuds and cheap bluetooth fm transmitters for the car are a revelation, and nowadays its either youtube or spotify for me. I still have loads of cds though, mainly local bands or old old stuff that hasnt been uploaded to youtube, and I rotate them occasionally in the landrover cd autochanger for when I cant be bothered with the radio.

“In demand radio” also do regular podcasts which do me for the treadmill or out running

 

[skotl]

you can have digital copys as long as it dosnt touch the net so best having a second pc and all files on that machine

Why? None of Windows, MacOS or Linux trawl your PC looking for illicit wares and report back to some mysterious dodgy-music-and-video-files policing superpower.

beware of windows 10/11 has the same potential of deleting your collection

More Windows-bashing, huh, Gaz? What functionality is in Windows that will go deleting your collection of vids, music or games?

 

[Kayos]

Why? None of Windows, MacOS or Linux trawl your PC looking for illicit wares and report back to some mysterious dodgy-music-and-video-files policing superpower.




More Windows-bashing, huh, Gaz? What functionality is in Windows that will go deleting your collection of vids, music or games?

But they dooooooo

I saw it on the Internet

Now, wheres that tinfoil....