I'm not going to support this kind of bollocks if they're going to use stuff like FCKDRM as a platform. It's immature and lame, even by MY standards.

"not going to support"... what does that even mean? Are you going to buy some Steamed or Denuvoed games to teach them a lesson?

Whats the problem with "immature"?

(For example most wars in known human history were caused/initiated by "mature" people. So I dont see that as desirable on its own. Also: Change often comes from the less mature parts of the population. This is IMO in itself neither good nor bad. It depends on the thing (or change) itself and not whether the naming shows some "maturity" if its good or bad.)

Sounds good in principle and I don't want to knock it much, but this will likely work out as well as many protests around the US/world have.....i.e. not getting much done and causing most to lose a day of work/pay if they choose to protest outdoors.
============================ It is also mostly useless, sad to say, unless your movement is PC and bowing to it's demands would be advantageous for those in power to do so.....or unless you do it so much that business for some in power grinds to a halt and they lose a ton of money/etc.

Doing this and expecting DRM to be dropped fully or even for most devs quickly is like expecting to cough and have a mountain crumble before you.

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National "talk like a pirate" day is one of my favorites.

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I am not trying to be mean to you personally, but do you truly think any devs will care if some random people mill about with signs in a few cities?

Spreading the word online and getting more people into DRM-free....now THAT will have a bigger impact on DRM usage, imo.

Nobody is expecting this to be revolution.

And when revolution is not an option, the only alternative is try to and drive slow change. Or give up.

These events and campaigns are generally all about slow change -- of the opinion of the public. They might succeed or not, but without trying, they will definitely not succeed. If nobody had tried to drive the change, maybe even today women could not vote, factory workers would have no rights and would have to work 16-hour shifts 6 days a week, cars would still drink leaded gasoline and have no emission limits, etc.

In fact, most things in society change very very very slowly (except when revolutions -- usually accompanied by violence -- take place), but that's easy to forget today since the internet & other technology has caused so much rapid change.

Edit: dumb discussion.

Edit 2: No offense directed at OP, it was my OT discussion that was dumb.

1st/2nd bits above: True enough, but i'd rather stuff that might affect change(faster/more change) be done first instead of the old less reliable(due to protest laws and companies not caring as much in some cases) IRL peaceful protesting. Stuff like online campaigns/spreading the ideas through word of mouth/etc.

3rd bit above: People wanted some of those things and got them due to bigger/more visible movements, and some of those were due to how said deficiencies in society/etc affected more people to such a level that they pushed harder and more for change. Sadly, most don't push for change as much if something doesn't affect them negatively too much, and many have jobs to keep that make doing long protests not as feasible as they once were(for more people).

4th bit above: True enough, but some companies won't change(due to profit motivations) no matter what people do(for the most part) usually, as they can use the law to keep the status quo and they can depend on those protesting to either give up over time or the protests to not get big enough to hurt them financially/pr wise.

Ok then.....btw I am all for methods to promote DRM free if they stand a good chance of spreading/working to a good degree, and I hope this works out for those involved and does some change even if minor.

Haha, protesting. You actually think that works.

The forces of DRM are just quaking in their boots....

The biggest changes we get nowadays are from social media movements who use far less effort(outdoors/irl) than protesting does and gets far quicker results most times(due to companies wanting to bow to pc culture and find ways to virtue signal most times, or to get rid of bad PR).

Short of that not much affects much measurable change in most cases beyond various revolutions(which usually get quite v*olent and forceful).

(This is not me advocating for v*olence in any shape or form, in case anyone wants to jump to conclusions)

not readin' other comments because i hurt my back

yah a day or a sudden-realization motion dont mean much, hmm?
who is this for? peeps that use gogie already have this instilled
who else is stumblin' upon this? s'up, non-real dudes?

waitin' for teh disney re-releases <3
holy crap, we're goin' that low? shizzzzz
ps how is scotland
i hope it is fine

There are some misconceptions about "change" in society. It often doesnt come due to changing entrenched old powers but rather by making new different powers. So in this case here in order to produce change (in society) all it takes may be to spread awareness to the right person. There is even a real life example right in front of you critcs: GOG. Far as I know no one 'changed' GOG from a DRM-demonic to a (somewhat) DRM-free store. GOG was made by people who believed (if the self advertisement is to be believed) in DRM-free. However for something like this to happen such a belief needs to come from somewhere. Spreading public awareness (in whatever form) may be such a source of such a belief or may serve as a reminder that other people care about DRM-free too.

I dont agree. For example I am pretty sure many "peeps that use gogie" pay for DRMed streaming services.

Edit: Or use a paid-for DRMed operating system like Windows.

We're THAT low lol! It is fine, quite nice outside surprisingly. How are you?

Yes, but there is only so much "power"(of any kind) to go around......usually to give people power others need to have power taken away from them, and usually in not so nice ways(with by being shamed or pressured on social media/etc or irl in less than peaceful ways).

And yes, gog does a ton of good, but is has slipped sadly in some ways(no one world price, some countries get censored regional versions, etc).....as Gog has wanted to attract other devs and rights holders they have chosen to sacrifice some of those same pillars they were founded on, all to make a buck/keep in business. Whether this is the right thing to do is up to personal beliefs and such.

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(Also eh....I see the trolls hit my posts in here too......don't they have anything better to do?)