Funny thing about this, is that it is TRUE. DRM actually does force us to copy things. I have an original copy of FarCry2. Installed it, only to discover a very freaky bug while playing it (too freaky to describe, it would need pages upon pages).
Initially I figure "typical for sweet old Ubi" and start looking in forums for a solution and contacting their on-line customer service (as if that would ever work...)
A week later and after playing countless hours trying to work around the bug and after reading countless posts and comments about the crappy DRM FarCry2 employed I get an epiphany... I search for a crack that would bypass the DRM, install it and PRESTO!!! the game worked fine. So I had an original copy of the game, playing it with a pirated .exe because it simply would not work.
The worse case of DRM though was Half Life 2. Bought it when it was first out, but didn't have an internet connection at the time. Way back then you would think that they would include an alternative to installing the game, but no... I owned the game for 2 years without being able to install it, unitl I had an internet connection and actually play the game for the first time.
On a good note, I now see a lot of games that make a point in having no security system whatsoever. At some point the industry will have to realise that security systems will never work in this internet era. Someone will crack it and upload it, possibly even before the releease date...
The true response to Piracy is good value for money and a compeling package. I would offer Orange Box as the perfect example, but it does have that fascist Valve registring system.
