Don't you mean who would protect all the oil you need to power the internet because we are too stupid to move to alternative generation methods that allows you to say that.

Considering it requires massive legal constructs and the loss of some fairly basic democratic principles to maintain monopolies that don't naturally exist and still fails to efficiently get goods to a massive percentage of the market, yeah I'd call that a failure, but mostly on the part of the legislators.

If we park all the 4 x 4's in the spot where the they plant the nuke! that would make road travel significantly safer.

That scenario is nothing, try installing the lastest version of Grand Theft Auto without an internet connection...

The day they removed LAN play was the day I stopped caring wether they released it at all.

Someone obviously knows absolutely nothing about the CO2 emmissions of various countries.

Millions and millions is pretty poor in a potential market of Billions and billions...

I say they should encourage piracy to make sure the lawyers always have work.

Mind you if I have to choose between truck drivers and lawyers...

They should also make sure they guy with the price sticker machine gets his cut, I hate to see him injured by piracy.

This is the fundamental flaw in the whole download = sale argument.

It's pretty hard to argue that someone with downloads worth more money than they have earnt in their entire lifetime was ever going to purchase them all...