If M$ was really smart I think they would offer a larger HD to be added to the XBox and games available for download through XBox Live. They could be making so much more than they currently are. In the long run copy protection only hurts the pocketbook of the manufacture and the quality of product for the legal customers.
What do I mean?
How about the errors on the disks used in the 1541 floppy drive for the games on the Commodore64. The errors were put on the legal copies as copy protection but everytime you loaded up the games and heard that sound of the heads caused by the errors you thought it would blow up. After time, it did cause read problems with the drive. All of this because of the companies trying to keep people from making copys/backups. It continues today... sound, video and compatability problems today are caused by the same thing. Copy protection! Lets not forget our wasted time with product activation which has driven some people who didn't pirate software to do so for that very reason. After all with viruses and spyware today, more than ever we reformat our systems much more often and refuse to wait around for every product we own to be activated during a reinstall.
