On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Yeah, I mean what right do they have to protect their products against piracy?!?!?!
There was this ball that little kids got to play with. Most of the time the kids put it away when they were done playing with it, but occasionally they forgot. Mommy had to go and find the ball and put it away. Because mommy didn't want to have to do that, she made a sign out list for the ball. Now when one of the kids wanted to play with the ball they would sign the ball out, then sign it back in, and when they forgot to sign it back in the mommy would know which kid used it last, and make them go get it. This was pretty good at keeping track of who was using the ball.
Then one day mommy decided that she needed to know where the ball was at every moment. So now the kid had to sign the ball out, then he had to come back every 5 minutes to sign that he was still playing with the ball.
If he didn't come back before the 5 minutes was up the ball would suddenly deflate and be unusable, the mommy would run out and put the kid in timeout and cut the kids allowance.
Normally this wouldn't be an issue for the kid, he would just ride his bicycle, except that all the kids friends ever wanted to do was play ball. They were afraid of the bicycle.
Also, your insinuation that Thane supports the piracy of any products in his business is appalling. If Thane is on tight margins for updates and spyware removal, etc, then adding a part where He has to be there for interaction during an update is eating into his profit. This update doesn't stop the pirates, but it does cause annoyance to the legitimate users. It fails the sanity test.
Christopher Fisk -- "Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." -Calvin cBlog: http://chris.uasoft.com/
