Double standard much? You refer to the music industries “backwards thinking” for selling copyrighted music, and say it took them “years to figure out that selling copyprotected music only taught people how to find unprotected music in illicit places” You say the movie industry *still* hasn't learned their lesson. And then you say anyone who has downloaded video games is a thief? I fail to see what the difference is.

What about the gaming industry's backwards thinking putting copy protections on games that are incompatible with 10-20% of the DVD-Drives in the market, resulting in legal, paid for copies to not work because they are unable to be validated? Or licensing and copy protections that prohibit us for forbid us to make back up copies, and then their utter refusual to provide new CDs/DVDs. I've got the manual to Pax Imperia. Good look getting those CDs.

Go buy a copy of the steaming pile of poo that “Two Worlds” is, and tell me who the thief is. Go pick up any incomplete, buggy, broken game when it's “hot off the shelf” before the 37th patch comes out and tell me who is defrauding whom. What about when Heroes V was advertised as multiplayer, had multiplayer requirements on the box, cited multiplayer on it's website, had a multiplayer button in the game, but the button was disabled??

I have been defrauded consistently when buying games. I get games that are broken, I get games that don't live up to the demo, don't live up to the artificial hype the put around it, don't live up to the reviews they wrote themselves on the box, I get games that are incomplete. And by the time I figure out I have been defraued (after I opened the box, opened the game, and put the CD in) I've forfeited my right to return the game or demand the product I paid for, because you can't return an opened game, even if you paid for Monster Truck 11 and got Rainbow Bright's Big Adventure.

Offer me some real legal protection from the gaming industry and then we can talk about pirate's being thieves. Until then, it's self preservation.

When was the last time you bought a song or a movie with a little message halfway through it that said, “Sorry, this product is not yet complete. Come back in 6-8 months and download the rest of it.”