Where Politics And Video Games Collide

It's the same as the record industry, people who pirate games aren't people who are big consumers in the first place, most of them are either trying to make a point, or simply don't have the money in the first place. They see this huge market they think they can somehow capture, but they don't understand that these people will never be regular music buying software purchasing people.

DRM, IP, and all that other crap is nothing but an attempt at oppression, as far as I'm concerned, the more laws that circumvent corporate control, the better. They already have consumers by the balls in nearly everything else. Here is some food for thought, say I don't agree with my cell phone providers contract, and I want something different, there is no negotiation, I accept, or they show me the door, shouldn't the cell phone company be trying meet MY requirements? Except it's hard for consumers to coordinate as a whole, but easy for a company to unilaterally dictate it's terms to consumers. I'm not a bad driver, yet, because of my sex and age, I pay high insurance, shouldn't I dictate MY terms to the insurance company, and if I prove myself dangerous or unreliable, then appropriate actions can be taken, no, instead they discriminate based on my sex and age, because they can, because consumers let them. Large corporates make CONSUMERS take the risk away, I say, screw 'em. I support any laws taking power away from them. You want to make money? Make your product so appealing you CAN'T lose money, instead of trying to coerce people into agreement of their terms of use.