You'll shoot your eye out kid...

Have a look at this book. I have a copy that was given to me over the last holiday. It's kind of fun, and might give you a taste of making games:

The Game Maker's Apprentice

I made it through the first several chapters before I was distracted, and forgot about it.

Oh, yeah. I also say to the cocktail servers, "Nurse, may I have another i.v.?"

That's why I call the local bartender "Doctor".

Wait, I see the problem with this. Try this approach:

1. Open a facility with lots of stationary exercise bikes connected to generators.
2. Advertise your facility as a new kind of fat farm.
3. Charge people a competitive rate, in relation to other weight loss facilities, to come lose weight.
4. Profit! (For you, and for the no longer fat people.)

(Sorry for the lack of the obligatory "???")

So that would be the "ta-kill-ya" diet then....

Then you find a different game to play.

I disagree wholeheartedly.

VHS, DVD, Blue-ray Players, etc., are viewed as appliances to the majority of consumers. That is, they have a distinct purpose, and their function does not change. Unless something breaks, or wears out, the appliance should still function as sold.

I think you would be more correct to consider the disk that won't play broken, and not suited for the intended application.

Expecting unwary consumers to go through hoops, and jumps, to re-enable functionality that worked previously on the appliance, and now does not work (due to the whim of some entity they have no control over), is just unethical (IMO).

The only way to make this acceptable (again, IMO) would be to require the manufacturer/distributor/retailer to verify that the purchaser fully understands that their device may not work at some time in the future, due to the whim of the entity deciding how the encryption works, prior to making the sale.

Then it is simply up to the consumer to decide if they want that appliance, now that they are aware of the risk. If they are willing to put up with it, great.

It could happen, but I would think the manufacturers would hesitate to do it, because it would be harder to make the sale, and quite a few would be driven away by the potential issues they may face.

That sure wasn't the way things worked in my family growing up.

We kids only got control of the main boob-tube when our parents didn't have anything they would prefer to watch.

There was no argument allowed, and our parents certainly wouldn't go for being relegated to anything, unless they wished to be.

Sure, we could lobby, but only until the lobbying became tiresome, or annoying.

If we pushed the lobbying bit too hard, we would be made to sit through some (boring at the time, now, quite interesting) public broadcasting show, like Nature, and were not given the option to go watch something else on the little television.

My late father's most frequent turn of phrase in situations like this was, "Sit down and pay attention, you might learn something!"

A lot of truth to that.

Hey, I like I like the idea of free orange juice... Oh, wait.