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@ pidow: I'm not sure what you're talking about. The problem isn't games being leaked from publishers or developers. The problem is the game is released and then teams of hackers go in and break the copy protection schemes and then release torrents for the game on various trackers, like The Pirate Bay. Many of these hacking teams live in European countries that will not extradite or live in China, which also will not extradite. I think Gabe Newell is right. However, there will always be a ton of people who want to have games but not pay for them. The best way to limit people pirating these games is to have strong online elements. Good luck pirating Battlefield 2 or Left 4 Dead. You'll have to play on cracked servers and most of those have horrible connections and/or are loaded with aimbots and other cheaters. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for singleplayer, offline games like Fallout 3. I think this is why we're seeing less and less singleplayer offline games for the PC. To those ranting about how DRM is why they don't buy games anymore, yeah right. Be honest, you don't buy games because you're a cheap jerk. Keep on stealing games and watch as developers keep closing their doors. Publishers don't use DRM just to piss people off, they do it to protect their product from rampant theft. This theft existed before DRM ever came around. It's not like DRM came about and then people started stealing games out of spite. People don't pirate games because it's easier, better, or any of that. It's because they want something for nothing and there is little to risk of negative repercussions. I bet many don't know this, but many of those torrented games actually DO install SecuROM. The cracked exe just doesn't call SecuROM or it delivers a false positive to SecuROM.