But if you ignore his "one price for everyone is a bug" idea, which is fucking stupid.
Micropayments have already proven to be a good way to get price discrimination. For example, check out what happened to Dungeons&Dragons Online after it went free-to-play with ability to buy extra content or eye candy. By giving customers a lot of payment strategies to choose from they managed to get a huge revenue increase. Here's a first link I googled out for you: Going Free Boosts Turbine's DDO Revenues 500 Percent. This is reality, not theory.
Suddenly you've invented an elaborate system, which might make less profit, and the inventive structure might deter people from getting into these games because "well if I'm not good at it, I might end up paying more for other games I'm more interested in/better at".
You're bashing a perfectly reasonable theory for *your* inability to see it implemented. They must love you at brainstorming sessions. All of the points you mentioned can be worked around. For example, you can have a per-game rating that can never get below 0, so there would be no point in avoiding a game.
There are plenty of games that are fun. It's not surprising, that there's a niche for games that are a sport.
Football, volleyball, tennis, etc. - all are both games and a sport. What's wrong with some computer games also being an eSport?
Loaning a CD or DVD to a friend is not a violation of copyright. Copyright is the monopoly right to make copies which is reserved to the copyright owner.
Indeed. But a compilation is done by copying music from various sources and putting them on a new medium. Distributing music in this form is then a copyright violation, unless you also distribute all the sources you used (presumably legally owned by you).
A bot can't keep a list of checked passwords, because it's impossible to tell whether the password failed because of the static part or the part which is changing with every attempt (the captcha). Therefore there's no guarantee that your bruteforce will succeed in a certain time, that is after a certain number of attempts.
I went back to school and now I'm in the medical field, hopefully they don't start giving visas out to doctors...
You should have chosen a law school. Since the US law system is quite unique to, well, US, there's a much lower chance to be replaced by a foreigner. Doctors, on the other hand, deal with human body, which is mostly the same for different countries.
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".