(The cynical side of me says it's because they give superiors and judges a reason to pass their opinion as judgement on someone without any real evidence...)
Give your cynical side a cookie. Now I might be completely wrong here, but the above is really the only reason I can fathom, either that or complete and utter ignorance... Which of course isn't too far-fetched an option... Luckily, polygraphs are not used in court over here in Sweden.
[...]so the games aren't a "One-play-per-copy" game.
To me, that sounds like a Publisher's wet dream... They'd just need to come up with the marketing to "justify" it, I'm certain the gaming community would swallow it whole.
Why the geek expects the gamer to join him at the barricades now is beyond me.
Well, to me this isn't about "Fuck Games, I want mah Linux!", this is about the legal right to do as you please with your own property, and this is something that I would think is in everybody's interest. But instead we've seen gamers ride to the defense of Sony, forfeiting their rights as consumers, in favor of getting their latest game-fix. Most arguments I've seen are along the lines of "Piracy is bad!" (Don't get me wrong, Piracy is bad, but the lengths some people go to decry it are astounding), or "Well, now PSN will be full of Hackers. And to me, those arguments pale in comparison to what Sony is trying to establish as some sort of "standard practice", and why that is bad. And I guess that on some level, I expected some overlap between the Gamer and the Geek, but I guess I was wrong.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.