On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 3:30:51 PM UTC-6, robisme wrote: > Would a "phone home" activation system bother you that much ? What's the > point problem ? >
It's generally a dealbreaker for me. For me its a rights issue; I don't recognize that a publisher has the privilege to nanny my computer. I give them money, they give me product, and that's the end of our contact (I rarely talk to tech support.) They can EULA all they want, which may not even be a binding contract in one's place of residence, but I don't recognize it. As Dwight says there are issues with hardware failures and unforgiving systems; I've had mac hardware fail and required going through Apple to deauthorize all devices (most DRM users don't actually provide this option to you; MathStudio for instance gives you 5 installs per purchase and officially says that if you need more for any reason, you have to pay up.) I've had Windows instances get unusable (I do a lot of development, and software testing, so things get clogged down pretty bad) even to the point Windows wouldn't allow a reinstall without talking to support (while if I were to have pirated XP instead of using a legal copy, was a simple two-click bypass...) Plus periods of time where ISPs suffer failures (Steam's "always on" policy made problems here; and no, "offline mode" doesn't work 100%. That has a 2-week expiry and has to be activated prior to losing connection, must have a remembered password (less secure), or else it glitches up), and with the new "six-strikes" mess where ISPs are planning to punish people with disconnections for *allegations* that * someone* might have done *something* using your connection (and its considered your fault even if it was a script kiddy sitting on the other side of town with a mounted dish scraping your wi-fi; which is a very possible means of hijacking internet connections.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/rBwMGJOSv-gJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
