You don't have to download it to be called a pirate - their logic is "we should be able to sell 20m copies but only sold 5m - 15m must have pirated" regardless of if anyone downloaded a less than legitimate version or not.

Sadly they don't care what we think - if we pirate or don't pirate it doesn't matter as they will call you a pirate anyway.

A lost sale = pirate, no it can't possibly be that the game is shit so no-one bought it.... or the DRM is shit so no-one bought it.

As for those who are pissed off about "From Dust" having shit DRM - I have a simple rule for avoiding DRM: Does the box have a Ubisoft logo? Don't buy it.

Yes because the united states is the bastion for free speech.. ask a mexican how they trap wild pigs

Pull all the hard disks out of your machines, send them to a relative of a relative of a friend of a relative in some far off place, install new hard disks in all the machines, install Ubuntu, Sabayon or Fedora (A distro that comes with some of the basics to continue working) - work with those for as long as you can (to build up the 'this is not a fresh install' feel) then invite their auditors in with open arms.

Australia tomorrow.

Other slogans:
China, leading Australia
China, Australia's future today.

Now it's been hacked... people have to buy 2 - one for psn one for games.

How did you keep from laughing when they asked you that question?

I've boycotted them since StarForce...

I've been saying this for years... Why does google capitulate to idiots when it can simply... literally... ignore them

Shoot them all - preferably with small caliber rounds, many times... Heck, a blunderbuss loaded of bits of broken beer bottle would work nicely.

I don't watch it - but they just assume I've pirated it and watched it.

Can't we all just get along?!?

Your box might be connecting to Sony's network, mine would have a rather hard time given that it's not attached to the lan and the firewall still contains rules expressly forbidding it's access to the internet from the days that it was.

I didn't pay $700 for a box I can't pull apart and put back together to whistle dixie if I so choose - I can pull apart a $200 electric projection screen controller and place a new chip in it overriding the functions of the original design and manufacture (as well as significantly increasing it's feature set - I know you ask "what more can a screen do but go up and down?"... I answer "usb & exact positioning"), why the hell can't I do the same with my $700 PS3?

If Sony wanted me to give them control over their device they should have had me lease it... or at the very least presented a contract at the time I was presenting money - not once the sale had taken place.

Given that more people lost their lives in gun related violence, medical accidents OR motor vehicle accidents (individually, not combined) in that same year (and every year since then) then were lost in combined incidents that made up 9/11... Given the number of civilians the US has killed in the process of retaliating... Given the steps backwards the US has taken in it's other freedoms and rights in fear and retaliation...

Yeh I actually believe the long term issues stemming from rights erosion (some of which people have fought and died for too don't forget) is at least as significant... if not more insidious because you don't even seem to notice it - or care... until one day your door won't unlock for you because a server somewhere has deemed your key invalid.

If you're in one of the few places Sony is making this offer - good for you, I'm yet to see any news of credit protection or monitoring for customers outside of the US.