Coercive monopoly in the gaming industry? a thought on how gamers are affected..

I wonder if anyone had given serious thoughts about the recent changes in the gaming industry with regards to the activation of games and the function of updating games thru only one specific venue or outlet only, specifically,the internet. To me by logic this constitute a monopoly and does not give rise to fair competition to obtain a product or the derivative products of said first product. I was just reading upon this article in wiki which is very interesting and is about coercive monopoly which to me seem to be the case right now with the gaming industry and the new way it has decided to operate when distributing their games...

Look up cohercive monopoly on wiki or the internet you will find that if you sit down and think about it, this is exactly what is going on with the industry at this time.

I understand that the gaming industry is trying hard to fight piracy but it is basically starting to make it's own rules and regulations that actually might be against the real laws to protect consumers to begin with. I wonder if anyone has filled complaints with the federal trade commission or the better business bureau about how the gaming industry is getting you into doing "their way"....

I think you need to understand what a monopoly actually is...because as it stands...your post doesn't make sense. If you filled a complaint with the FTC (with your posted complaints) they would laugh and toss it in the garbage.

I kinda get what your saying but this would only be the case if the Internet actually was a Monoploy. There are too many people involved in it for it to ever be considered one, plus even if "The Internet" was a monopoly you'd still have dial up connections so people could BBS-style the updates.