Comment by walexander | Hacker News Reader

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>Holding Nintendo Accountable

>volunteers for Defective By Design assembled the cardboard bricks (and had some fun doing so!).

They are fighting DRM by sending Nintendo... bricks?

Wearing pink shirts wont get Bush thrown in jail. Wearing teabags off your hat wont get Obama impeached. And sending bricks will not get DRM removed. Protest culture in America is a hobby and will not be taken seriously, as a result.

You want to stop DRM, you have to stop buying things that have it. Most people will not consider it enough of a deterrent not to, neither will most consumers even know it exists.

HTC removed locked bootloaders because a large number of power users decried it, along with a large number of competitors offering similar devices. Nintendo is the only game in town when it comes to Mario. It's great to send in emails complaining about it, but the only thing that's going to stop them from putting DRM out is a necessary public outcry (not going to happen - you need every 6 year old to care), or just them just figuring out the futility of DRM (which i'm not sure the statistics on).

The point isn't that Nintendo is receiving bricks in the mail, it's that media outlets are telling users why people are sending Nintendo bricks in the mail. To get some momentum behind your cause, you have to attract attention. That's what the bricks are for.

Honestly, I think Nintendo's policy was probably a CYA instead of a detailed record of what they are planning to do with your data. If that's the case, they will realize that they look somewhat evil, and reword their legal agreement. That's much more realistic than impeaching Obama.

These are the same people whose idea of fighting DRM was to attempt a DOS attack against Apple customers who needed service. Basically, they attempted to fill all the Genius Bar appointments for a weekend and then go in and read a script that called for asking the support people questions about why Apple had DRM. They suggested that people make multiple appointments at multiple stores, in order to take up as many slots as possible.

Looks like they still have no clue how to actually accomplish anything.

Edit: here's a link to their call for the DOS: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-challenge

I could not agree more. This is a pointless group. They should focus much more time money and effort on spreading word to the media indicating the implications of this. I seriously doubt any tactics these guys do will have any effect.

Basically kids will never care. To them "personal info" is harder to understand than money. And money is already a problem. The only thing you can do is appeal to their parents. The parents won't care because they don't want kids messing with the toy anyways so it won't break. Its a problem.

The only way to win is to vote with your wallet. Just don't buy nintendo products. And make sure nintendo knows that you are boycotting them. That's all.

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