Besides your broken English, you are looking at this the wrong way. Hugely inflated estimates from the games industry does not primarily serve as an argument that piracy is rampant, and DRM is not foremost about game developers protecting their intellectual property or even game sales. Rather, the estimates and the DRMs are ways that traditional distributors - not innovators or producers - are trying to hold on to a government granted artificial scarcity where there is no scarcity (it's just bits and bytes). It doesn't matter that the statement "without piracy, (some) people would buy 90 games / year, and this leads to such and such in industry revenue loss" is wrong, even if capitalized. The purpose of these kinds of statistics and statements is more insidious; the statements are meant to facilitate a particular political agenda, allowing industries to maintain and latch onto new (artificial) revenue streams. These statements and measures are examples of political spinmanship, and as such they have to be countered not by truth - I'm sorry - but by more spin. Going "Uhhhh, but you will anger your customers" is missing the point.

I'm also a frequent /. reader so I haven't actually read the piece either. Of course, that's never really a deterrent for a proper geek. I have to just point out - being that rare geek that is also a capitalist pig - that Google "collecting information to improve user experience" is equal to Google "collecting information to make money." Andorin wrote:

Google doesn't collect peoples' information for the happy, innocent purpose of improving their experience. They collect peoples' information to make money. Why can't they be honest about that?

Google is clearly in the business of improving user experience - and they are clearly unable to do this blindly. If they don't collect data - let's say information pertinent to page ranking, as in what the average user ends up clicking after a specific search - then the service that they provide will suffer. I for one have no problem with Google collecting information for the purposes of page ranking, personalised ad displays, UI optimatization, or even just debugging. That is of clear benefit to me; and the second that I think there is an imbalance between Google's goal of improving my searches, my gmail, my web shopping, and their data collection, I will drop them to the floor like a retarded baby. I DO have a problem with current legislation allowing governments all over the friggin place access to the information that Google holds on me. That information is between me and Mr. Google for the purpose of allowing them to serve me better, all the while making money of me. That is the beauty of capitalism.