I love how you think that this is a new thing.
For any and all types of P2P, especially the illegal kind, this has always been the case. And for all types of P2P, all the people that use it actually have the attention span and patience to filter out the garbage. I myself don't even notice it, it's completely natural.
It's only your fault that you can't figure out how to use the system.

Batteries are heavy.
Figure out why they didn't make one part of the glove yourself.

Apologize.

surely the user agent switcher works?

You were lied to.
Additionally, you are attributing vastly more responsibility to your CPU for the performance of all of these games. Why don't you underclock your CPU and see how much effect it has on your framerates? Yes, even to 2GHz and below.

The HD 3870 was released in October 2007, Fallout 3 was released in November 2008. Those other games, around the same time. Barely a year apart, those games were designed to run on those exact games: not the 4870 which was released barely months before.

On top of that, the 3870 was almost the top of the line card for the 3000 series. It's no surprise that it can handle those games. The people that develop them are not stupid. They do not expect people to buy a new graphics card just to play their game. It will run on the cards released not even a year ago, and it will run well. Expecting it not to is foolishness.

Sheesh

I don't recommend clicking on that link.
It's rather broken and quite unhealthy for your browser.
At least Firefox. NoScript will prevent it from maxing out a core, though. A remarkable number of errors...
Posting anon because I modded the comment down.

If you're smart enough to disable autorun, then you're not dumb enough to not notice multiple "Open" and "Explore" entries. Give up.

Don't be talking about "Back in the day"

Back in the day, cd-rom drives already had a "play" button. they had next and previous buttons too. They used these to play music cds, and I assume pass the signal through the audio card. (ever notice a 4-pin header on the back of the drive? even new cd-roms have this, even though it's pretty much useless now)

A second play button would only confuse the user. And make the hardware protocol more complicated needlessly, since that feature can be executed in software soooooooooo much more easily.

And, in case you didn't know, you can disable autorun and still keep the "doubleclick on drive icon -> autorun" functionality in windows.

And finally, lrn2paragraphs.

I like how you conveniently forget that you have to buy a highly specialized laser printer and transparencies to accomplish that.
And the "display a hologram on a TFT is completely ridiculous. I assume you're talking about this A few nvidia supercomputers running 65 projectors into a screen? Yup, feasible.