[dazzalam]

On the issue of copyright theft, consoles specific, the majority of console manufacturers only recieve a small amount of the game profits (licensing to use their format), they make far more in sales of units, they are only under pressure from the software houses to make their consoles more "hack proof"

Back in the nineties EIDOS the makers of tomb raider issued a statement saying they wasnt going to bother with any form of encryption on their latest tomb raider game , reason being why spend tens of thoudands on something that would be cracked within 3 days of release.

if somebody wants to nick summat, they nick it, and if somebody wants to crack summat they`ll crack it

fact of life

and to compare household burgalry to copyright theft is ludricous
I have yet to see some little old lady M$ shareholder scared to re-enter her home that she as lived in for years because someone copied her XP disc
Get a grip