I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]
Since I frequently get reactions to things I write about on this blog (much to my surprise) I thought in light of my failure to get a response from Relic Entertainment I’d write them a letter and publish it here. Letters don’t usually have titles but if mine did it would be called, ‘Hi, I [...]
So I was thinking about advertising on social networks yesterday. As one does. Obviously there’s a lot of interest in this space at the moment, what with the astronomical figures that are thrown around whenever a Facebook buyout comes up in conversation. Most of these figures are connected to the ridiculously huge number of ‘eyeballs’ [...]
One thing I feel I always should be doing more of in this blog is pointing out the myriad curiosities of life in Japan. And yet try as I might I can never seem to find anything strange enough to warrant your attention. I’ve never found a vending machine dispense anything more interesting than an [...]
As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]