Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Digital rights management

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Digital rights management[edit source]

I've had a lot of fun looking up the DRM bashing that goes on online. Hopefully, you had fun reading this. Lord Scofield Stark 13:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Humour: 6.7 Pleasant. A nice account of the DMCA war. Being a pirate myself, I loved the article. But since this is supposed to be a critical review, I'll pretend to be barely impressed, in sync with the Humour score.

To begin with, it's a narration of events that is presented in an amusing manner. It started off brilliantly - the opening paragraph was great. It sort of lostSteam after that and became informative. I'm not complaining the absence of cats and ninjas and chuck-nuns, but seriously though, it could have been a tad funnier. You're thinking, Yeah, they all say that, how many of them can actually make them funnier? I'll concede, I can't. IFYMB! can though. However, I do have a suggestion or two. Primarily poking-fun suggestions.

  • Include the people involved - like the legislator who passed the law. I can't remember the name but he became the most hated person on the Internet overnight.
  • Cite the end of Gigaupload. Or was it Teraupload?
  • Music humour! Random band's album was released online for free without any piracy restrictions. Nobody downloaded it.
  • If you will, add See Also.
Concept: 7.5 Not too shabby. This was like a scribe's account of a battle I witnessed. Funny enough though. I'd still maintain that it's an account. A funny retelling, rather than a humorous article. You've gotten incredibly close to the truth. However, the idea of production houses celebrating the success of piracy compensates for that a bit.
Prose and formatting: 9 Good enough. No severe complaint; it's grammar compliant. The one little problem is too much "quoting" all over the "article," you know what I mean? And, there is a formatting inconsistency in the titles. Digital rights management, Obstinance and Paranoia, DRM-free software, and further challenges to the Master-Plan. Geddit? I normally fix these during the review but I'm not quite in the mood today.
Images: 6 Bleh. The Sales Report was funny. Rest were okay.

Suggestions:

  • Picture of fans' reaction to the DRM
  • Image of copyright owners secretly toasting each other
Miscellaneous: 7.2 Decent article. Could be funnier though.
Final Score: 36.4 Fun to read from the standpoint of any person who witnessed all that. It really is a nice account - I'll even show this to anyone who asks me what happened in that online outrage. For an Uncyclopedia article, however, it lacks humour.
Reviewer: Have a nice day!  Tumb13weed Tumbleweed01.gif 13:53, 4 September 2013 (UTC)