[Joe Forster/STA]

There's enough incompatible shit^H^H^H^Hsoftware on every (!) computer, so why add something that is very low level and, from an objective point of view, completely redundant, to increase compatibility problems even more?!

Also, it is not the developers of games but the publishers who are this blindly into copy protection. Most developers wouldn't care much about their games being pirated, as it also kind of advertizes their work. (Why is M$ software dominating the world so much? Partially because it hasn't been copy protected much and thus has been pirated world wide.) This is the same as with media DRM; musicians are not very much into it, publishers are! Some musicians hate it so much that they're willing to leave their publishers and publish their music on their own - e.g. via the Internet.

And what is the reason for copy protection? Corporate greed; the boss of the publisher company wouldn't be able to buy his fifth car every year, if the sales weren't high enough. And who gives a fuck^H^H^H^Hdamn about that?!