The thing I hate is how they punish legitimate consumers. You ever bought a DVD and had to wait through 10 minutes of "STEALING IS WRONG" ? I own plenty of DVD's like that and it drives me insane. I feel like getting a copy of it through privacy just so I can watch the thing when I want to watch it, opposed to having adverts and various other crap forced onto you

Then there were games like Spore by EA. They put so much protection on, you need a degree in Computers just to install it correctly and have the programme working for you. Obviously, the pirate copies come out the next day without all the nonsense which then again, could convince legitimate consumers to go through other paths.

The best anti-piracy measure would be to just have the games work from Steam. Steam being the only programme per se as other programs of similar nature would just upset everyone or making a co-operative joint venture based on the same system and actually sell people games on prices they are worth opposed to the default $60 price tag as you see in the shops and $30 for movies.