GOMtv actively blocking alternative clients? - Page 17

On March 16 2011 02:19 Nerski wrote:
blocking work arounds to try to force people to use the gom player makes no sense...what could the gom player possibly be doing that a VLC player doesn't that would matter?
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On March 16 2011 00:53 Honeybadger wrote:
It's all theoretical, however. And I will present you with an interesting experiment conducted by Valve with Left 4 Dead.

They dropped the price from brick-and-mortar stores on steam by 50%. Overall revenue went up 320%.

They dropped it by 75%. Overall revenue went up 1,470%.

Brick-and-mortar sales were completely unaffected.

An author (Can't remember his name) released one of his novels, which was still on the best-seller list, for free online. Sales of his other novels went up MASSIVELY. people getting exposure were suddenly becoming fans.

When you reach more people, you gain more customers. That's what all copyright-humping people are arguing against. It's all theorycrafting. Instant money lost now can't POSSIBLY mean money gained in the future because you expanded your client base tenfold. It's all worthless theorycrafting.

On March 15 2011 14:32 Zeke50100 wrote:

I'm not saying that GOM is all good. They pretty much suck, but people are whining about things they weren't promised nor entitled to while pretending like both are true.

On March 15 2011 18:09 ShyRamen wrote:


oh man, you can't read the whole thing, can you ?

those 2 sentences are not contradicting, you look like a giant idiot for putting those together

what i meant is that ON ONE HAND they do a lot of moves that support the foreign community (like seeding code A Players, having the foreign gom practice house etc.etc.) BUT on the other hand they are not supporting a pretty vaste player base composed of MacOS and Linux users, therefore the argument used by another user that posted before me something like "Korea is a Windows based country" is not valid and that is what I was trying to explain him.
It seems that GOM had a very nice focus on the foreign community so this pro-actively blocking alternative methods of watching the live cast goes against their own foreign-community supporting actions. get it now frenchie ? or still confused ?


P.S. Also... it's not just Mac users, it's ANY other users they should support (like Linux) so even if I could be happy that they are developing a Mac GOM player I still can't believe they are so slow at supporting alternative OS

On March 16 2011 04:38 Disastorm wrote:


Maybe you can say that about free users, but for the ones that pay, they are pretty much paying for a service that they are being denied intentionally based on their computer. TBH, I'm not even sure if they would be allowed to do that in the US (Remember US vs Microsoft from 1998, it was ruled that Microsoft was not allowed to have their Windows APIs favor Internet Explorer over other browsers).

On March 16 2011 05:09 mDuo13 wrote:
I haven't been able to get GOM player working at all on my work PC (Windows). Between that and my Linux PC at home, my only options were watching an SD restream or using mplayer or something to watch it.

I've bought a season ticket since then, because the VODs still work sort of OK on Linux and I usually can't stay up late for the livestream, but still, this is disappointing. I'm not the kind of person who demands full Linux "support" but actively implementing countermeasures to workarounds? Boo to that.

I can't guarantee that GOM TV will continue to get my money when they make it harder for me to enjoy the services I paid for.

On March 16 2011 04:38 Disastorm wrote:


Maybe you can say that about free users, but for the ones that pay, they are pretty much paying for a service that they are being denied intentionally based on their computer. TBH, I'm not even sure if they would be allowed to do that in the US (Remember US vs Microsoft from 1998, it was ruled that Microsoft was not allowed to have their Windows APIs favor Internet Explorer over other browsers).

On March 16 2011 02:19 Nerski wrote:
blocking work arounds to try to force people to use the gom player makes no sense...what could the gom player possibly be doing that a VLC player doesn't that would matter?

The only thing I can think of is that VLC type players can record what they watch and gom is worried about people recording the cast and rebroadcasting....but if you really wanted to record it...you could just as easily view it with the gom player and use a program like fraps to record it still.

So in the end all they do is tick off people who legitimately just want to watch the gsl.

On May 11 2011 14:09 Loomies wrote:
I'm so disappointed that I paid for a premium and continue to get a 0x00000071 error I'm forced to watch the Free SQ stream. I reinstalled GOMTV player 5 times so far and no luck. I turned off my windows firewall too