Only Cafferty when he repeats daily that people can log onto his blog to stare at 300 replies (one of these mine to; Worst threat:Big Government or Big Business? *Small people, that's who. There’s no question about it, we’re all buying and being taxed for.*) for the CNN daily news poll question.

Far are gone the days of propaganda except for repetitive & annoyingly interruptive pubs on TeeVee.

Be nice, it's MSNBC, that's top grade material for those jokers...

It is a good thing Frogboy was able to get some voice time on a mainstream media outlet about the shitty reviews. Maybe some sites will redo their reviews because of it.

I'd never purchase/play a server side game (PC platform) for serurity/privacy issues as well. It would also raise many of the same concerns now coming to light with cloud computing. You're wise user for not trusting others with that level of access to your PC.

Game consoles with locked down hardware, and used only to play games (minimum level of personal info involved) would be an ideal platform for server side gaming. After what's happened to Demigod, I believe it's clear that developing games for the PC platform is hopeless. DRM is all it's forms has failed, and just being a "good" company has also failed. I really don't know what else to say. This is a sad day, and a real eye opener for myself. I have always been a strong supporter of "fair use" and the need to reform copyright time limits. But this time the numbers don't lie. (12% legitimate users - wow)

Wanna bet they wont bother, the damage is done. Piracy struck, again.

Thats just wrong people buys the game, not pirate it

Stardock should sue Gamestop for releasing Demigod early and causing all this shit.

I'm also really pissed that the reviewers gave Demigod should bad scroes simply because of multiplayer issues. Those assholes didn't really even look at what the game really was. Stardock should also contact these people, explain what happened, and demand that they review the game again.

Oh, and I raise my middle finger to the pirates and the publishers who making this an excuse to put more DRM on the game.

Stop making games for good*. Maybe then some "people" will learn of their "mistakes". Some people only value things once they have lost them. But that means that as always the innocent have to suffer because of the guilty... so don't stop making games for good UNTIL AFTER Elemental is done and patched, ok?

Also, no matter how many sales lost in the future, ban Gamestop from receiving any other SD game ever. If someone shows them that they have the "balls" to reject them for their obviously selfish reasons, maybe they wouldn't be so *BEEP*. Maybe they would fear that others could follow the lead. Maybe. Altough not likely with so much fear to piracy.

Demigod = in my book anyways.

* that means everybody, not just Stardock/GPG... Which we know won't happen.

Poor people survived long before video games existed. They don't need to pirate to survive - they simply choose to do so.

If they couldn't sell video games, they would sell something else on the black market. Or better yet, they might start legitimate businesses. But don't tell me this is "survival." That's nonsense. There are many other things to sell, and plenty of legitimate ways to sell products.

You can also technically receive viruses from software on a CD. If you don't trust a company to send you stuff electronically, then I wouldn't trust them with a physical CD either.

From the video:

. . . and that's what's going to happen. If you want to call it "survival" for the pirates, you accept the consequences of condoning their behavior. If you do not want that future, you NEED to convince people it's wrong to pirate, even for "survival."

Because all of the "survival" logic in the world won't matter. The publishers will do this if they think it is necessary. Even Stardock could do it if you push them hard enough and keep up the excellent work you're doing at making excuses for pirates.

Rationalize all you want. All the rationalization in the world won't matter if they decide to do it. It's not a matter of why people do it - it's a matter of how to stop it. Because if you don't become active in condemning it and taking steps to change the culture - they'll do it for you.

The differences are quite apparent.  I have control of and can check and exe or other file I download.  Also I know that the patch came from the game company, baring a complete takeover of a website/fileserver for a VERY short time that would effect relaitively small amounts of consumers. 

On the other hand if a company/server had the ability to access and change files whenever I was playing a game...well...yeah.  And all someone would have to do is slip in a little extra.  People are not companies..but they work at them.  But, hey..I'm just a noob who doesn't know anything about tech stuffz.  (I added a z so I could look cool too)

Heh - wow.

We live in an age where pretty much none of what we use we've written ourselves. It's literally impossible for an individual  to check every line of code running on a system, as most software is written in teams, some small, some large. The OS itself has more code than physically possible to review by a single person.

So let us not fool ourselves: Whether downloaded or not, there is always a level of trust that they are all doing the "right thing" and not sticking anything bad on your system.

Most virus scanners have real time memory scanners, and actually, you may be more protected than you think:

-Most systems come with DEP enabled, which helps protect against patching important system files in memory.

-Most systems come with NTFS, which has a permission system to prevent patching important system files on the drive.

So your most important system files are probably safe. If you're taking security seriously and not being admin all the time.

   It is the same reason why black people buy expensive rims and tires then put them on junk cars or someone that lives in a run down house but has a kick ass stero system.

   People live under bridges because houses here can't be pirated and they are very expensive but the computers the burns 20 dvds at time is bought on the black market for less then $100 and blank dvds and plastic bags, paper covers from a photocopy shop are just a few pennies then they steal electricity from light poles then set shop in a tent. Off to the market to sell dvds for a dollar all day long to fed the kids.

What? Again.....What?

My oh my......i knew there was a reason i prefer to ignore your posts.

There's more in Indonesia (which is near enough to Australia for techy freaks but far enough from anything continental to be an isolated Islamist set of islands -- yours is what, btw... Borneo?) than in a Brazilian SaoPaulo ghetto (ETC) maybe?

Welcome to the Jungles, it may not look urbanized or industrialized enough but if there's a way to exploit foreign products you can count on crooks to hide deep into it to create artificial wealth based on outright theft.

I gather you've never been in NY City - cuz, someone in the Bronx would snip off your best luxury jeans buttons just for staring a little too much at their shiny waxed super Cadillacs. I paid him a tuna sandwich and we parted our different ways, boy. My Black SR5 in their dust. Wanna talk racism and colors? You dunno half of it.

I'm caucasian white like a bottle of milk, and i know who not to insult in public or otherwise.

GmOOnii, you have me at a disadvantage, our own jungle is snowy and frozen solid four months per year but please realize this -- you're still no match in some cases, pawnshop my meanings if you dare.

Don't wake the Canadian Polar bears too soon and you'll get through the upcoming summer time bootleg fakes here even.

We'll, whadayaknow -- a Kangooroo just jumped in this mess, too.