Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone�s time

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""We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology." Thank you, finally! See, Blizzard gets it. The company's co-founder, Frank Pearce, recently told the good folks at Video Gamer that he thinks the fight against DRM is misguided. Not that he supports end-users going around torrenting his games till the end of time, but that the way to "beat" piracy is to embrace gamers and treat them like complete jerks.

"Part of the process is the new Battle.net, which launches with StarCraft II. Its DRM is rather simple:"

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