Wow, you're an idiot. It costs much more money to copy a book or a shirt than to just buy a mass produced one. Videogames, and all other non-DRM'd digital media, can be copied in seconds at nearly zero cost.

You have two options: 1) No DRM 2) Ability to return games You can choose only one, and it should be obvious why.

So the fact is, all that's been shown is that people in the know aren't willing to pay for software designed to fuck with their property.

Yeah, but the vast majority of people who download aren't 'in the know', they just want free games. I happen to be both, so even if they removed DRM I'd probably continue pirating games. Realistically, the only way they would be able to stop this majority would be extreme DRM (call home every 5 minutes, requiring internet even for single player games). Removing bad DRM may get a few customers back, but it would get games up on thepiratebay faster, and probably lead to even more people downloading.

Are you being serious? They can put anything they want in the software they're selling, and it's the consumer's choice whether or not to purchase it. There are no parallels with the boston tea party, because nobody is forcing you to buy these games, whereas the unfair taxes were mandatory.

You're a protesting customer when you refuse to buy a game. You become a pirate and a thief when you torrent the game, regardless of your reasoning. Once you do that, corporations have no reason to have faith that you'll go back to lawfully buying their games if they were to remove DRM. Instead, you've shown that you'll go to any length to get the game, and that if they can create secure enough anti-piracy measures they'll get your money.

Because digging a well is obviously much more convenient.

Yeah, battle.net and an mmo server have very, very little in common. The closest you get currently is FPS games where there server software comes with every copy of the game, some of which can host up to 64 players. That's hardly 'massively multiplayer' though.

He got mentioned more than 50 times in the following debate, that's much more than just a question. There's also the fact that had it been his blackberry or voicemail, there is potential for sensitive information to be leaked, something we don't have to worry about with Joe the Plumber.

10 million people play this game, that's about the same number of people who use linux, and we have a lot more articles about that floating around.

I don't get it, first you guys complain that Obama came out of nowhere and we don't know anything about him, but then you complain that the media is biased and spending more time on Obama than McCain. You're never happy are you?

Yeah, just the other day I tried to go to http://asdlfjkas/ and got redirected to google. It's time for a revolution!