Quote Originally Posted by Bubba View Post
No one here is advocating they don't have the right to protect assets, but we are arguing they should find a way to do it that doesn't actually punish those who are their paying customer base.
It's not only the gaming industry that does that. I have a few movie DVDs that force one to go through various copyright screens, and then a clip with discordant music and nagging about the evils of piracy (the buttons to step or accelerate through those things are disabled). The irony is that those nag screens/clips are the first thing that would be removed during ripping. That amounts to punishment for those who buy legally, and no consequences for those who buy illegally.

I also had one legal DVD on which the DRM decided I had an illegal player, and it managed to reflash my DVD player. Fortunately, I knew how to reflash the original firmware.