A little bit OT

Rant on: What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people to create a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any reason to do this ? Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that I am not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's time. I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choice to not create any more web accounts. Rant off: Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan Dave

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> Rant on: > > What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people to create > a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any > reason to do this ? > > Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that I am > not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's > time. > > I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choice to > not create any more web accounts. > > Rant off: > > Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan > > Dave > >

Maybe it has to do with selling your email addy to help pay for site ?????

Thats why I always use a yahoo email address for those places. "jwilson54" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:lmFAd.824034$8_6.798921@attbi_s04... > DB wrote: > > Rant on: > > > > What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people tocreate > > a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any > > reason to do this ? > > > > Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that Iam > > not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's > > time. > > > > I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choiceto

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> > not create any more web accounts. > > > > Rant off: > > > > Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan > > > > Dave > > > > > Maybe it has to do with selling your email addy to help pay for site ?????

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> Rant on: > > What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people to create > a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any > reason to do this ? > > Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that I am > not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's > time. > > I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choice to > not create any more web accounts. > > Rant off: > > Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan > > Dave > >

Try this http://www.bugmenot.com/ It may help with that problem.

I've been keeping a record of how many web sites I've 'registered' for in the last 3 years. So far I'm up to 114. You're right - it's a pain in the neck and as far as I can see it's just a stalling tactic to make people think twice before downloading and using their (expensive) bandwidth.

I agree. I think it's worse though. I just picked up Half Life 2 because it was finally on sale. $55 Retail was WAY to much to pay for a shoot-em-up game. When it said "Internet Connection Required", I thought this was regarding online play. Nope. You are forced to create an online Steam account, and must continue to have an internet connection, to even play it OFFLINE! We have product activation, DRM for music downloads, and now copy protection that validates you over the internet every damned time you play a game, even offline. Has anyone thought about the ramifications of these companies going out of business. This IS the computer industry we are talking about here. Almost everyone, eventually, either merges out of existance or goes out of business. Those with $1000 worth of downloaded music are gonna be mighty pissed if their supplier goes out of businiess and they can no longer 'activate' their DRM so they can listen to their music. The world is going to hell in an Internet Hand Basket. -Larry "DB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Rant on: > > What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people to create > a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any > reason to do this ? > > Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that I > am > not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's > time. > > I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choice to > not create any more web accounts. > > Rant off: > > Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan > > Dave >

"DB" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:odednf7hBO5jY0_cRVn- [email hidden]: > Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan > > Dave Have you visited the pits today? sadly, dave henrie

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "DB" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:odednf7hBO5jY0_cRVn- > [email hidden]: > >> Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan >> >> Dave > > Have you visited the pits today? > > sadly, > > dave henrie

Dave, I was hoping that the pits had just gotten hacked. As time goes by I guess that is looking less likely. No matter what the case, Jan and the crew at the USpits have served the online community way above the call. DB

You need only be online at the time of installation and first run, then you can use your local cache all right. ---A--- Larry wrote:

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> I agree. > > I think it's worse though. > > I just picked up Half Life 2 because it was finally on sale. $55 Retail was > WAY to much to pay for a shoot-em-up game. > > When it said "Internet Connection Required", I thought this was regarding > online play. Nope. You are forced to create an online Steam account, and > must continue to have an internet connection, to even play it OFFLINE! > > We have product activation, DRM for music downloads, and now copy protection > that validates you over the internet every damned time you play a game, even > offline. > > Has anyone thought about the ramifications of these companies going out of > business. This IS the computer industry we are talking about here. Almost > everyone, eventually, either merges out of existance or goes out of > business. > > Those with $1000 worth of downloaded music are gonna be mighty pissed if > their supplier goes out of businiess and they can no longer 'activate' their > DRM so they can listen to their music. > > The world is going to hell in an Internet Hand Basket. > > -Larry > > > "DB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > >>Rant on: >> >>What the hell is it with you webmasters out there forcing people to create >>a login account to access downloads on your websites ? Is there any >>reason to do this ? >> >>Life is just to damn complicated these days and I get the feeling that I >>am >>not alone in my belief that this practice is just a waste of everyone's >>time. >> >>I don't care how good your track or whatever is, I have made the choice to >>not create any more web accounts. >> >>Rant off: >> >>Thank god for the pits, Bless you Jan >> >>Dave >> > > >