Since i thought we could say anything about GOG and not just a small sentence about it, I created the fiction ( or not...) below.
2014 December - Below Warsaw, in old long abandoned underground WW2 bunkers, a special task force from GOG composed of top Polish experts in IT is hard at work to create the next step in DRM-less software, a dynamic multi content DRM remover from existing software, which could be sold legally so that people who legally already owned DRMed digital content, could remove it's DRM. The special software would pick up the existing software and package it the form of a traditional GOG installer.
2015 February - Finally with the help of old decryption techniques recovered from secret German documents, the GOG task force creates a working prototype of the DRM remover software, and conducts the first live trials as a DRM remover sold on GOG.com approved by the game publishers. This software would only run once and unlock 1 piece of software, in this case a game that was on the GOG catalogue, it would cost half of the current price of the corresponding game on GOG.
2015 July - Amid rave reviews and acceptance of their DRM remover, Most revered illuminate high chaplain Marcin Iwiński, decides to proceed to phase 2, of his most cunning plan. Apply the DRM remover to all available digital content and catapult GOG to the forefront of digital realm. Now everyone can have their digital content without DRM, be it music, movies, ebooks, etc.
2015 September - Fears rise as now every piece of digital content can be pirated non stop, by lazy, i'll intended people, or just plain bad people who try to coerce friends and acquaintances to let them copy their DRM-less software from them. This was already foreseen by his most supreme planner, the benevolent mastermind Marcin "Freedom Giver" Iwiński. Unbeknownst to the people who used GOG's DRM remover software, the software added a benign spyware to the digital content it was applied to, where it recorded and analysed mouse gestures on the host computer when installing software in much the same way as a polygraph machine was used, enabling the detection of people who where installing software they didn't bought and was not freeware. With this data GOG was able to pinpoint the top pirates of most countries, who where then submitted to sweeps of their hardware for payed software installed illegally.
2015 November - GOG discloses it's lists of pirated software users to world governments who agree to punish the offenders in the way devised by the anointed brother Marcin. His punishment for the offender was completely the opposite of current policies until now, which was to charge obscene amounts of money from single persons, Marcin's way turned out to be the apprehension of all wages and revenue from the offenders for the period of 1 year. If they didn't had a job they would be force to work for free, while being given a home, clothes and food if they could not afford it, their bank accounts would also be frozen for a year. His intention was to demonstrate to the guilty of the injustice of basically being forced to work for free, as the rightful owners of the digital content had.
2016 June - This policy had great impact on the world wide view on piracy, and reduced piracy by 75%, while increasing revenue to digital content producers, which in turn where able to charge more affordable prices, so digital content was cheaper than ever.
2016 August - Reaping the fruits of great revenue and public recognition, GOG starts buying digital content producer companies, as well as integrating freelancers and independents in it's fold in what was to be knows as the GOGERS.
2017 April - Revenue levels of the GOG company surpass most industry giants like Apple and Microsoft.
2017 December - Revenue Levels of GOG surpass most small countries GDP.
2018 March - GOG becomes the dominant digital company in Europe.
2018 October - GOG CEO Marcin is not seen for 6 months now, rumoured to be in a spiritual trance to better devise his next step in the master plan.
2019 January - GOG settles a deal with the people of Lithuania with whom the Polish had ancient ties, for a lease of the country and it's industrial base for 5 years, for an undisclosed sum which is rumoured to surpass 10 years of China's GDP.
2024 January - Anointed Grand Master, bringer of the most secret mysteries Marcin, reveals to the world that his secret plans are now to advance to the next phase, having acquired Argentina's and Chile's claims to the Antarctica. Marcin plans to move all GOG personnel and all who want to join them, up to a limit of 2 Millions, to his land claim in Antarctica to build the GOG nation.
2028 August - Goglândia surpasses Japan, China and the USA as the main supplier of advanced electronics and computing equipment, becoming the worlds most advanced nation, industrially and socially.
2028 October - Marcin reveals to the upper ranks in his organisation, that they were previously contacted in 2012, by a space faring alien race, who wanted to export the business ways of GOG to the rest of the galaxy, and that all their success until now was only a testbed so the aliens would approve of the plan, while it raised revenue, lifted countries to better understanding of persons work and it's worth for each other, creating enterprising and driven people, who wanted to succeed by their hands instead of mooching the work results from others.
2031 February - The Marcin GSS (GOG Star Ship) launches into space carrying Marcin and a small cadre of his most trusted acolytes, to proliferate the GOG business ways among the cosmos. Marcin vows to return after he has earned the Human race a place among the Galaxy Star faring races.
2032 January - A rogue Star Ship Fleet of 5 military ships is launched with the remnants of people who kept their pirating ways. This was enabled through enclaves on remote parts of China, of people supporting knockoff strategies and simple thuggery as ways of business. They where fanatically intent on destroying Marcin and his small group of acolytes, so as to ensure that aliens would consider Earth a non-developed planet, so they can better stretch their tentacles and corrupt the GOG ideals from within and suffocate the country under economic oppression.
2032 November - News reporters all over the world show Marcin's mother tears, as she watches a pursuit fleet launch in pursuit of the rogue fleet, built by all the nations of the world who supported Marcin's views on business and humanity. Our best hopes are that they can catch up to the single unarmed ship of Marcin, before the rogue fleet catches up to them.
Hope you enjoyed reading, as this would be my entry, now it's here for comment abuse :)
Post edited January 19, 2013 by wobinho
