Some personal thoughts on piracy (warning - long post)

[BeefJerky]

Piracy can't and never will be stopped. All what the internet offers comes with a price, the same means that allow Frictional Games to distribute their game online allow pirates to distribute it on torrent sites

They've been pretty successful with the closed architecture systems like the 360. Sure, there are plenty of mod videos on Youtube, but how many of them are just script kiddies that wind up getting banned the week following their leet hax0r skillz?

Far less people are willing to monkey with their consoles. That Frictional has stated a desire to move onto those platforms I think is a smart move provided that the quality is there from release.

Computer snobs will frown upon this, of course, and conjure stories of the mythical time when console games took less brain power than PC games.