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Here's a recent experience I had with DRM and games...
I bought the game Mass Effect when it was freshly released, I paid the full price for it. They also had an additional free module online that comes with the update. I played the game a couple of years ago, had fun (using minimum specs as that's all my old PC could handle), and then shelved it.
I just built a new (and much better) computer and wanted to replay it at full specs and then buy Mass Effect 2 and 3 after that. But as I'm about to install the extra module (that also comes with a much needed patch), EA is forcing me to enter a second CD Key for that free module that I can only get get by registering the game on their site. I already did that before, but EA moved servers and wiped all the previous user data, it seems. So fine, I go to re-register it...
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
EA took out the registration for this game, but they kept the requirement to register it in order to update it and install the extra content....
Yup, good old DRM. As a result, I had to pirate Mass Effect 1 even though I already paid for it legally. Now, despite already having the 2nd game sitting in my shopping cart and looking for the 3rd's release date, I will no longer be buying the 2nd or the 3rd one. Plus, I will no longer buy anything at all from EA out of spite.
Same goes with anything else, books, music, etc.
If anyone forces any horrible DRM on the things I buy and pay for legally, and especially if in a few years they stop supporting it and render the whole damn thing useless, I will go out of my way not to buy anything at all from that company afterwards.
In the mean time, the pirates continue to pirate, unaffected by any amazing new DRM that makes things even more expensive for the people who actually want to pay for it...
Yup, really good business model there. And then they wonder why pirating is becoming more and more mainstream.
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