Your analogy is backwards.
The slot machine that the publishers keep pumping money into is the PC game industry. Developers want to release PC games, but doing so is just not profitable and piracy takes sales away from the SKUs that are actually profitable (consoles). If DRM fails they will just stop making PC versions.
This is a last ditch effort to save pc gaming. But pc gamers keep piling on the hate, trying to make this fail.
I think you are just waving farewell to pc gaming. Good going.
Ahh i see we have a liberatarian here. When the revolution comes we are going to remove the FDA. Instead we will make idiots like you line up to test all the canned food for botulism and meat for salmonella. You see this way we kill two birds with one stone.
Seriously though? how the hell do you think this would work? Regular people are not equipped to do testing of all their food. There are contaminents that are tasteless and don't kill for months or years. (iron, mercury etc.)
And the concept of an anarcho-capitalist honor system is complete fantasy. In real life companies have only to change their names and move on. These rules are there for a reason.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928