The real issue is that the studios are being rapacious; They're not satisfied with making a reasonable amount of money, and instead want to collude with everyone they can to make prices as high as possible.

But the laws on the books should have prevented it!

Ah, I must have skimmed Kotaku's write-up and missed that. I suppose I should have read Kotaku's write-up a bit more carefully.

PA is generally good on that front at least in terms of common/case law, but the biggest issue we have are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Essentially, the commonwealth has a Democrat controlled city on each southern corner, and Kentucky in the middle. Basically though, the elected reps from the two major cities tend to…

It's a chain small chain of stores headquartered in Ohio, and with most of their branches in the North-Eastern US. From what I've heard, they're kind of like Fry's, and from what I've seen they're MUCH better (at least for buying computer bits) than chains like Best Buy.

@AfrOmaNtiS: That kind of shadyness is generally unwise...

@RawSteelUT: Believe it or not, most torrent sites I have visited DO have large quantities of legal material, whether that be material that has always been freely licensed (I.E. copyleft), or material for which the copyright has expired and is now in the public domain.

@What the WHAT?: Codewheels and manuals.

@Timstuff: Let's not bring up the Hotz case here; Sony's case is extremely shaky if they have one at all.

@TheVultureofCulture: "I've noticed that generally people who are going to buy the game will buy it and people who will pirate it will pirate it."

@Hedgeson: Generally only ones that are retail boxes of STEAM games, and games for which a specific exception has been added after the fact.

@Decker: "...[This]...drives gamers towards piracy, just so they can get the whole package without being conned into paying extra for it. "

@Sean Masterson: Well she's right; Everyone SHOULD feel safe.

@DJ Schway: There's a difference between pronouncing something correctly and pronouncing it with an accent. It seems to me that Wess is taking issue with the latter and not the former.

@MilsurpShooter: ZIP. Zipties.

The reason why better games tend to be among those with small development teams generally boils down to politics.

The trick is really to read adverts; I found that MicroCenter was giving pre-orders 15 bucks off on the price of the game, and also had that funky rotating d-pad controller play&charge bundle discounted, so I drove over and bought them.

How about they do all that, and then cut their share of ticket fees down to say 1.50 USD per ticket, thus allowing theaters to make some money off ticket sales so that they don't have to rape our wallets so much on concession sales...

That's not entirely true; Netflix needs content to rent out. In the absence of that content, they will essentially starve. This is precisely what the hollywood-types referenced in the article are proposing to do...

"So what's an extra $6 a week? Oooooh, you can save $24 a month. That's the price of a cheap Denny's dinner, or a rounding error in the household budget."