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DRM is NOT THE LAW, I AM THE LAW, says JUDGE DREDD
Rebellion, the games developer that owns 2000AD - British comics' finest product – has banished digital rights management (DRM) from Mega-City One. The company's announced that once punters purchase tales of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog or Rogue Trooper online, they'll be able to access DRM-free downloadables of their purchases …
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Friday 24th April 2015 10:05 GMT Dabooka
Credo!
With an awfully long flight ahead of me next month, this has just given me a great idea to get back to my youth. How I loved 2000AD back in the day, as I'm sure many on here did.
Grokk, it's about time I got off my arse and did something about it! How do these e-comic thingeymebobs work out on a small screen like a S5, or is it strictly tablet only?
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Friday 24th April 2015 10:16 GMT TonkaToys
Re: Credo!
Not too bad on a small screen; resolution is pretty high. You can always pinch/zoom for detail.
I converted my toothy paper subs to the e-subs about a year ago and the only thing I miss is the fact that the prog arrived through the post so I had to read it quickly or SWMBO would nag me about leaving it lying around.
Nowadays, I occasionally forget to read it for a couple of weeks.
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Friday 24th April 2015 10:10 GMT jason 7
Started reading it from Prog 13...
...when I was 6 (read the ultra gory Action comic before that, thanks Dad) but stopped around 1981. Then my brother started getting it again around 1985 and has every copy since plus all the spin offs and collections.
Yes, you guessed right. he doesn't have a girlfriend.
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Friday 24th April 2015 11:06 GMT phuzz
Image have been selling all their stuff DRM free for a while now, nice to see more publishers getting on the bandwagon.
If only because with a DRM free comic I can 'lend' a copy to a friend which might result in a new sale. A non-shareable DRM copy just guarantees there won't be a second sale.
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Friday 24th April 2015 11:36 GMT Alien8n
First copy...
I remember the first copy I ever read, had a Dan Dare storyline in it from the mid 70's. Not sure why it was in the house. After that the first series I remember reading (and then continuing through to the 90's) started with Block Mania. Since then I collected a few older issues (such as the first Nemesis the Warlock issue) and continued through to the death of Johnny Alpha. Gave up after that (with the occasional issue now and then) as I found the current format to be nowhere near as good as the old format. Might just be me but it doesn't seem to be as good value anymore, each issue now seems thin in comparison to the older issues (never mind the cost of them now) and the story lines don't seem to be as good, with the exception of Dredd and the infrequent classic characters returning.
Did enjoy Nikolai Dante though, so there are some good new characters. I'll probably just pick up the graphic novels when they come out now.
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Friday 24th April 2015 12:53 GMT Graham Marsden
Great, but...
... WHEN are they going to sort things out so we can subscribe to the Digital Version of 2000 AD and get it delivered straight to our Inboxes as soon as it's published instead of having to go to their website and buy each copy individually (which is the online version of going down to the shop and buying it in person)?
PS been reading since Prog 1 and got the complete collection up to #1890 when I went digital :-)
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Wednesday 30th December 2015 12:26 GMT Danny 2
Re: Good news
"Your repeated prison fantasies are both bizarre and unwelcome."
Can I quote that in court this month? I've got a date with a sheriff who thinks he's Judge Dredd.
I just watched an episode of Alias Smith and Jones with the wrong actor and have lost the will to go on the run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones#Death_of_Pete_Duel
I pasted all my old 2000ADs onto bus-shelters in chronological order, and then I found a cartoon version of this classic online, so I printed and pasted it too. It occurs to me now that this may be the longest sentence in Sci-Fi, and perhaps the most terrifying:
It was just like what they did to Winston Smith in "1984," which was a book none of them knew about, but the techniques are really quite ancient, and so they did it to Everett C. Marm, and one day quite a long time later, the Harlequin appeared on the communications web, appearing elfish and dimpled and bright-eyed, and not at all brainwashed, and hesaid he had been wrong, that it was a good, a very good thing indeed, to belong, and be right on time hip-ho and away we go, and everyone stared up at him on the public screens that covered an entire city block, and they said to themselves, well, you see, he was just a nut after all, and if that's the way the system is run, then let's do it that way, because it doesn't pay to fight city hall, or in this case, the Ticktockman.
Bus-shelters are the worst form of time-travel.
It starts with a great quote from Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, but here is a more appropriate quote for the daftie above:
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
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