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There are lots of people like this. You'll always see someone complaining in the comments of a MP only game that doesn't have bots.
Does anyone even resell PC games?
If you're paying an ETF the problem is not the phone, but the cell service. Your contract doesn't say you'll use the phone for 2 years, it says you'll pay for the service for 2 years. You can always swith phones or buy a new one without a discount.
If you're paying an ETF the problem us not the phone, but the cell service. Your contract doesn't say you'll use the phone for 2 years, it says you'll pay for the service for 2 years. You can always swith phones or buy a new one the isn't discounted.
Just to add to that. What really makes this special is the ability to connect to a Wireless network while also sharing it wirelessly with one WiFi card.
This has pretty much always been possible and isn't anything new with this. You can do this right now on XP. You won't get the distance or features a router will give you though.
Sure they want to prevent piracy. However, the most important thing as a company is to keep your customers happy. Yes you want to grow your customer base and you want to stop pirates, but making your existing customers angry is extremely stupid.
Ok, so maybe you'll have less people playing that didn't pay (doubtful), but you're also going to end up with less copies sold. A pirate does no actual harm to your profits. Losing your customers does. This is the same error the record industry made with DRM, and there's a reason why they no longer use it. These schemes will never stop piracy, they will only result in lower sales.

Anyways someone who pirates a MP game on the PC and continues to play it as more than a demo/woot I got a game before street date, would never have bought the game in the first place. The Xbox 360 is the best place to be a pirate. You can actually easily play official MP with a pirated copy.
"First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me."

Sure this is a stupid video game, but the point still applies.
Uhh Xbox Live is full of ads.........
A fixed 360 won't help you, this is PC exclusive.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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