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Comment Brute force wins again (Score 1) 406

Sounds like a competition one of my professors told us about when I was at school. He said they had a competition at school about sending data from point A on campus to point B. I supposed the idea was to test compression algorithms or something on the data and who could send the most data. My professor said they just started copying files on to a bunch of hard drives. Went to the bar and had drinks while they copied. Then came back, put the hard drives in the car and drove to point B. They won but were disqualified because it wasn't in the spirit of the competition.

Comment Re:This solves nothing until ... (Score 3, Interesting) 140

There's that term again. "Reason to buy." Why would a publisher want to do that? Isn't it better to make the game, then complain about being entitled to money without providing any reason. Clearly, treating all your customers as criminals is the answer.

Yes, instead of treating the people who legitimately buy things as what they are, Paying customers who as the saying goes, "are always right", let's just the assume the people who are buying the thing are the ones that are going to pirate it. That makes perfect sense.

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