A possible setback for DRM in Europe
A possible setback for DRM in Europe
Posted Feb 7, 2014 0:20 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: A possible setback for DRM in Europe by raven667
Parent article: A possible setback for DRM in Europe
That may be true in some cases, but very much not true in others. In particular, the US military doesn't seem to have bought any games for their supercomputer, let alone 1700 copies of any games. This may be due to the difficulty of buying games, but it's more likely that simultaneously playing more than a few hundred video games while working in a government lab is not really a very desirable plan.
The "sell razors at a loss, charge a lot for blades" model works fine when the market wants to shave, but not so well when someone figures out how to build a house out of a million razors and no blades.
People who want games will buy them, despite being able to get them without buying them, but people who don't want games won't buy them no matter what.
