michaelleung: Wolfire dev(s) on OnLive. Looks like IT'S ACTUALLY WORKING!
That said Wofire is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
That guy is clearly one hop away from the distribution layer of that network, he likely talks directly to his ISP's border router meaning he might as well be connected to a switch. If I'm not allowed to buy APB, there's no fucking way something like this can work here.
He seriously compared downloading and installing a demo to streaming it? Lets use that "anything can be an onerous chore if you bitch about nothing" tactic for buying a video:
I wanted to watch that recent shitty star trek movie so I had to get out of my chair, put on a clean shirt, clean underpants and clean trousers, put on socks and shoes, find my keys, sunglasses and wallet, walk to the front door, open the door, walk out the door, turn around, close the door, get my keys out of my pocket, lock the door, put my keys back in my pocket, turn around AGAIN, go out the gate, turn left, walk to the end of the block, turn right, walk to the lights at the main street, press the button, wait for the little man on the light to change from red to green, decide whether to cross the road straight or diagonally, cross diagonally after all, nearly trip over the gutter because I'm too busy ogling that cute chick with the short skirt, stockings and boots, tear my eyes away from the cute chick, turn right, walk half the block till I get to JB hifi, turn left and enter the shop, walk all the way to the back where they have the DVDs and start looking, is it an action, comedy or scifi movie, I go to scifi and look at A, its not there so I look at B then c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r. s... wait there it is! Oh no, thats star trek the motion picture, no thats the wrath of kahn, thats search for spock, thats the voyage home, that cold chill down my spine and twinge of nausea must mean that was star trek v, thats the undiscovered country where they establish the klingons have purple blood that has since been utterly ignored, thats generations, thats first contact, thats insurrection, thats nemesis... aha! there it is! God that box art is awful but I guess it prepares you for the movie being similar, 20 bucks on sale eh? Yeah thats not too much of a ripoff, i go to the counter, I take out my wallet, I wait for the moronic staff to finish their inane conversation, I hand over the money, turn right and walk to the door, show the door dork my reciept to prove I bought the product he just saw me buy, exit the shop and begin the long journey home.
Compared to that I could just load up my 360 or PS3 and stream the movie (In a mere 6 hours at a cost of a paltry quarter of my monthly bandwidth). Does that make it the better option? Oh no, because THEY'RE 2 DIFFERENT THINGS!!
It's akin to watching something on pay-per-view, instead of buying a DVD. The DVD will often have all sorts of EULA and onerous DRM which tries to bully you into making it as similar to the pay-per-view experience as possible. When you watch something on PPV, you typically have no expectations that you own it, so it is not even an issue.
Oh golly gee, thanks for saving us from that troublesome burden of potentially owning things by ourtright telling us we can't! "Trying to get sex on the outside was so much work, thank GOD for prison rape! Well its not god really, its Charlie "Monstercock" Davis but he insists I call him god when we're doing the deed."
Post edited June 18, 2010 by Aliasalpha