Again, interviewing pirates is flamebait at best. A bit weak. Apparently, the Empire guy has never had a game not work because of DRM. Tried playing Bioshock the first week? Yeah, the DRM will effect your first three hours - the game refused to run entirely. Don't have internet? Same story. Internet is not a universal commodity at this point, publishers! Steam has been nothing but a pain in my experiences with The Orange Box. Want to play Half-Life 2 in a hotel without Wi-Fi? Uhh, no, you're actually a criminal that pirated that game. Won't run unless you planned ahead. Hopefully Stardock gets the popularity they deserve with their ideas. They seem one of the few publishers that doesn't have their head stuck up where light doesn't shine.

How about this: rather than interview pirates to talk to "the other side" of DRM, why don't you interview us, typical consumers, who are getting their butts kicked left and right because publishers are afraid of a blank CD? Interviewing pirates is a FUD maneuver I've seen too many times to knock a DRM argument down - why not talk to people who AREN'T breaking the law? You don't need to look far to find someone who's angry at DRM, but aren't downloading like crazy to "stick it to the man." Asking pirates on their view is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. What do you expect them to say? THEY don't HAVE to deal with DRM! Ignore them! Let's focus on the people who are getting screwed over: the consumers, and to a somewhat imaginary extent, developers. Pirates will be pirates; they have been since the 90's, on consoles, handhelds and everything else, and they will be in the future. DRM is as ineffective at stopping these people as a slice of cheese. Wake me up when you have a DRM scheme that actually works, and I'll bother letting go of my digital rights (that I paid for). Until then, you can stop dreaming about the money in my wallet - it's not going anywhere near DRM-infested debauchery anytime soon.

Nexuiz is based on Darkplaces, not Darksiders. And Nexuiz has a huge lead in terms of graphics over Alien Arena (though AA doesn't look THAT bad). I'm really wondering why the paragraph started off talking about graphics; none of these games are about the graphical powerhouses anyway. A few other good games: Warsow, OpenArena, Cube/Sauerbraten, and Gore: Special Edition.