Copyright infringement claims are more often related to what they believe they should be earning rather than actual customer behavior and statistics.

Because they are one of the only 3 decent gaming consoles (2 if you only care about HD) and have quite a few good exclusives that dedicated gamers can't help but care about.

Besides, it is unreasonable to expect that the vast majority of uninformed customer will do anything about it. Even if every customer that feels bothered by this decision stop buying, it won't be more than a scratch to their deep pockets. Even then, since you don't buy from them anymore, they won't care about what you think either. Voting with dollars doesn't work against megacorps.

And then they will cry piracy.

While Xbox Live itself doesn't advertise good games, becoming a Kotaku pick, which is listed in the XBLIG interface, should greatly increase visibility and likely profitability too.

These measures are making the whole experience very unappealing. They might be avoiding some problems, but they are unlikely to attract anybody that didn't make their mind before playing this trial mode and they may even change the mind of the ones who did.

Whether the free gamers have "entitlement attitude" doesn't matter, because if the free mode fails to entice players, then it is pointless. No self-righteousness will make anybody buy/subscribe.

Among the changes, Google announced that it's new motto is "Be evil". The black bar marks its new corporative mentality, that involves new goals such as using it's privileged position to take over the world and kicking puppies.

You say that as if it doesn't happen already. Not only a lot of games have loads of purely cosmetical items, but MMOs and console online services sell them for real money.

If they believe even in a single deity, they can't be considered atheists. I see your point, but it's not entirely correct either.

I find that very hard to believe. Even if they wanted to do that, how can they be sure they will have the opportunity to do that. If they are bought before going out of business, the new management probably won't keep this promise. Unless they have this patch ready right now, it is not certain whether they will be able to develop it when they are going out of business.

True. I once saw a letuce writhing and gargling sap. It was horrible.

I have no idea, but it happened.

With vuvuzelas in the background? What a crappy demo would that be.

Actually, grandparent's analogy, compared to yours, seems more adequate.

While such people are endangering themselves by being ignorant, it is in no way their fault. Deciding what is safe or not to run is not exactly intuitive for someone with little knowledge on computers, yet if they don't explore and experiment by themselves, they are not likely to learn anything.

An user that runs "JustinBieberNaked.exe" as root simply knows no better. Ignorance is not a crime. Unauthorized access and theft, however, are crimes. Since such user knows little and yet owns and therefore have the right to use the computer, only the OS (and other software) companies can do something to ensure security. While they should not be liable for damages(unless the problem happens on their end and affects the customers), they should do everything they can to ensure security.

Cult of celebrity, maybe? It is already happening.

Government, and its adherents, also have a long track record of atrocity. Should we get rid of it too?

I think it's kind of hypocritical to treat religion as such an evil, when people are equally (or even more) likely to worship a TV celebrity, which often isn't even a good example in any way.

Religion, by itself, isn't evil. It is often full of good intentions (yes, I know the idiom). The problem is in the religious organizations. They get powerful, consequently they get corrupt (if they don't begin that way) and start attempting to manipulate people.

If someone is religious independently of any institution, they are much less likely to be led into doing something harmful.

But is it really a problem, considering their population density?