Send an email to nominate Brad Wardell CEO of Stardock to be a panelist at the FTC's townhall meeting on DRM.

The FTC is holding a townhall meeting on the topic of Gaming DRM.


Details and links to nominate panelist here:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...g-drm-woes-ftc-to-hold-town-hall-meeting.html


Brad Wardell is the CEO of Stardock and the creator of the Gamer's Bill of Rights.

Details

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169673

The Gamer's Bill of Rights are as follows:

Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
Gamers shall have the right to expect that games won't install hidden drivers or other potentially harmful software without their consent.
Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.
Gamers shall have the right to demand that a single-player game not force them to be connected to the Internet every time they wish to play.
Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play.


THANK YOU.

 

Nice, but I dont agree with the last one, sure its a nice touch, but what makes me not install it and then take it back to the shop claiming it wouldn't run apart from my own decency. I am aware of GameCopyWorld and GameBurnWorld but giving them the possibility of doing what a said straight away is just silly.

However I strongly agree with the Minimum Requirements section, and all the rest for that matter

 

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I think the guy's heart is in the right place and would be all for his nomination. However, all things considered, if everything in his Bill of Rights were enforced, then publishers would simply decide that PC game development is just not profitable enough and likely would simply dedicate all their resources to console games.

If you want to see as many of those items as possible come true, give your buddy an earful whenever you see them hitting up the .torrent sites to pirate games. Too many people consider piracy socially acceptable. *That's* the root of the problem.