Ryan McAvoy said:
^ Re anti-piracy promoting piracy ^
My mum wanted to buy me Morrissey's autobiography for Xmas on Kindle from Amazon but despite 1/2 an hour of total bafflement, she discovered that you can't 'gift' a Kindle book. Which is just crazy.
So plan-B, she purchased an Amazon voucher to the value of the E-Book and gave me that. On Xmas day I then spent another 1/2 hour or more trying and trying to purchase the E-book onto my Kindle and eventually gave up. "Please Amazon I'm begging you, all I want is to do is give you my Money!".
Plan C, I spent the voucher on a DVD and downloaded the E-Book illegally. It downloaded in seconds and I could read it immediately. No fuss, what service these criminals give to their customers! However I then found that my Kindle wouldn't accept the book no matter how many times I uploaded it seemingly because It had not gone through Amazon's software?
Skip to 5 months later and my Brother bought me the actual book for my Birthday. Praise physical objects, you never let me down!
Yeah that is why I love Blurays,real books,and games in cases. At least I did before all this garbage started. I had that same problem. I wanted to gift all of the James Harriot books to my mom but wouldn't you know it you can't gift things on the Kindle and using a gift card is a pain in a half so I am not putting her through that. It seems like every piece of anti piracy tech out there only forces people to pirate stuff,so good job there.
Oh and as for playing games in my 70s,well you have to remember that games didn't exist when the people who are in their 70s now where kids so they didn't grow up playing them. I have been playing games since I was two(My first system was the Vectrex and then I moved up to an Atair 7800) and count them as a story telling medium along with books and films so I am pretty sure I will still be playing them in my old age. I don't plan giving up on films just because I get old and the same goes for video games.
You know it does seem insane to me I mean here I am trying to give these companies my money and they are refusing to take it,I thought that was their purpose but I guess not. I just want to should "Shut up and take my Money!!!" when dealing with this anti piracy garbage.