The Chronicles of Riddick DRM Sparks Outcry          Thanks to
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Threads* | 159 Comments   • Doubtful that Atari decision makers
sat around and said, "Woah we are really going to show the
pirates...they have to CALL NOW!! YEAH! We stopped piracy!
Company picnic with strippers!"      This kind of DRM works to
prevent a small amount of physical sharing, without going too
far I might add. Like your friend borrowing the game at school
then passing it on to 4 other people to load onto their PC's. A
small portion of people might actually buy games from word of
mouth but also might have borrowed the actual game before they
would think of downloading illegally. Lets just say this is .5%
of the RiddickPC sales.      If I was running a business and
knew I could increase profit by 0.5 or 1% on a product by
eliminating a certain small element of software "sharing" with
mild DRM, I would take the measures. Some people don't
understand how much that .5% adds up to. I