Things like Broadcast flags eventually die out just like Divx (the original concept where you bought disks and you player, hooked to the internet would check to find out if your account was paid up before it would let you watch it). When normal people are immediately affected by these issues they vote by just not buying the junk. But they never see it comming, the battle against things like that are almost always fought by regular people after the fact.
At the end of the day Bill Gates, the man responsible for the software monopoly people claim to hate so much (not the people who work for M$ or whatever you decide to call it) still takes home a fat ass check. His fireing of Phil in accounting isn't hinging on how many copies of WinXP where hacked/pirated/stolen/urinated on today, it's about economy. Huge companies like Sony or M$ hardly feel the pinch from regular everyday occuring piracy (smaller companies really have more to worry about of course) but they fight it because they want people to know they want their money the way a Pimp does, on time and without any lip, otherwise eventually no one will take them seriously and the ratio of "pirates" to people who pay will swing out of their favor.
That fat ass check Bill Gates gets can pay for all the lobbyists and such that he needs to help the laws he feels will help him maintain his foothold. If it's a game of "David and Goliath" you think you're engaded in I think you should know Goliath is wearing sling shot deflecting armor this time around.
Ultimately, I think the moral (hehehe wait, that's funny!) of this thread is if you're going to steal/pirate/download/emule/torrent/whatever some piece of software, dont try to explain it as some sort of mini revolution and pretend you're striking a blow for independance, just admit you like getting shit for free, leave it at that and don't brag about it or expect to be hugged for it by everyone in an open forum. Likewise As long as a company can release a "classic games" collection of 10 or 20 year old games, then your "retro rom" collection is pretty much just as bad from a corporate perspective no matter how little you think it hurts someone, chances are even if it's not, they dont care because they didn't get cash from your possesion of it.
The only thing that matters is that you Do or Do Not buy their product or at the very least every copy in someone's possesion resulted in an increase in the bank account.
I feel there really is no "just" side for most of the people in this thread because we're ALL doing it to some degree it's just looking like a question of how honest are you about it.
I hate long posts dammit, stop making me write them! I'm going back to the Convex vs Concave threads already, dont make me come back here!
*shakes fist angrily*
).I'll stick to MD and SNES 
