[citation][nom]fulle[/nom]I'm not sure if rodney is being serious or not, because some people are actually that fucking stupid.Assuming he's a a useless piece of existence who shouldn't be allowed to speak, the problem is that if protections are put into the software, the pirates will just remove that and steal the software anyway. The difference here would be that the pirate would be playing an unprotected, less hassle version, while the paying user would have to suffer through hoop jumping for no benefit to the developer. Even less people end up paying for the game, and everyone loses.[/citation]
Minus the derogatory assault, I completely agree with you.
The most basic example being no-DVD cracks. Why should I have to sift though dozens of spindles and hundreds of disks, load the one I need into my drive, and wait for a program that's already fully installed on my pc to read the disk, while someone with a cracked version can just click and play? Now I even have to jump through the Games for Windows Live hoop to play
an offline game.
Copy protection software really only hurts one demographic: the paying consumer.