It’s a downwards spiral. It will implose soon enough.

There’s no way in convincing them that they are hurting themselves, because they will never admit that they have made a mistake. The only way I see is to bombard them with millions of complaints, or launch massive lawsuits that will make any publisher shy back from DRM forever.

• Technically broken, low-quality, annoying-to-use but LEGAL version for $60.
• Cracked, install-and-play high-quality version for free.

The question is not whether the second option is moral or immoral, legal or illegal. The important point is that it won’t change, that they can’t prevent people from giving themselves that option.

So as an end-user interested in playing a game, how exactly does their reasoning work? What incentive do they give me to go for the expensive low-quality version?

Basic economics: you sell something by giving people what they feel is worth the money they pay for it. Software companies are, currently, doing it all backwards, using every method under the sun to lower the quality of their product. How do they think this will help them generate sales?

 “sorry you ask for citations and I provide links then you are too lazy to
see the court cases themselves in the aritlces linked then say that it
is different than what the court has concluded.”

You didn’t link to anything with any authority. You linked to forums. Forums are simply a bunch of internet users spouting off. There is no reason to believe that any of them know anything. You didn’t link to relevant court cases, you didn’t link to psychological or sociological research studies, you only linked to a bunch of internet users who have no more authority than you or I.

When someone asks for a citation, they are asking for a link that proves something. If you had linked to a scientific study that shows that the vast majority of sex on college campuses is rape, then you would have done something smart, but you didn’t (and you couldn’t, because it’s not true, and I CAN provide a scientific study proving that). If you had shown me a court case or a law (from a large area) that defined rape as being any sex that does not involve a consent form or involving any amount of alcohol, then I would have had to change my views… But you didn’t (and again, you couldn’t, because they don’t exist). All you did was link to the opinions of anonymous internet users. That proves nothing. Literally nothing. There was no value in your citations. I appreciate that you tried, but you don’t seem to understand what actually constitutes scientific or legal proof. If you think you have links that are VALID AND USEFUL, then please present them, and prove what you’re saying.

Regarding your Bible references I feel it necessary to point out that it also advocates incest, selling your offspring into slavery, ethnic cleansing and mass rape of infidels.
Etc.
Conveniently located in the same old testament where your views on marriage comes from.

Similarly if you want to look at the untranslated version of the bible it quite clearly doesn’t state “virgin” anywhere. It uses the word for “Young woman”.
Indeed, the original bible never mentions the word “virgin” or takes up the concept of virginity in ANY passage.

Indeed, the way you express yourself quite clearly suggests that the majority of your argumentation is based entirely out of decidedly selective misrepresentations from bible passages. When your own body of reference cannot back up your statements it’s definitely time to take a step back and reevaluate your position.