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Story: Sony settles class action lawsuit over DRM

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Of course there's no response.

Interesting that there's no response to your last question.

These "they have a right to protect themselves" fanboys seem to be conveniently ignoring the fact that it has gotten to the point of being EASIER, SAFER and MORE RELIABLE to pirate software/music than it is to purchase it legitimately.

If you purchase the items you have the following problems:

* Some copy protections cause antivirus/firewall/etc. applications to fail, making you vulnerable.
* SecureROM has been PROVEN to physically damage/destroy DVD/CD ROMs.
* DRM only allows you to reinstall or modify your PC a set number of times (3 for Spore the video game, I know) before you're no longer able to use it. In essence, you are now "renting" a video game for the full price of purchase, but this is hidden in the fine print.
* DRM will also cause some games to simply quit working when the company decides not to continue running their authentication servers to save money.
* DRM is often poorly written resulting in numerous "openings" that hackers can now use to get into your system.

Now, let's look at a pirated version of the game:
* Download online.
* NONE of the above problems.
* ALL copy protections can be broken.

When are people going to learn that when you keep making it harder and harder for the honest people such as myself, you will eventually CREATE dishonest people. I for one refuse to *purchase* anything from EA from now on after the Spore debacle, an game that I had literally waited years for.

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