I use my power as a consumer to favor reasonably priced and less restricted media That's me, in the post to which you replied, making the same point. IF I kno

I use my power as a consumer to favor reasonably priced and less restricted media That's me, in the post to which you replied, making the same point. IF I know beforehand, I won't buy the game. But how do you find out that a single-player game doesn't work when its vendor's servers go down? By owning the game and finding out first-hand (it's not printed on the box). Have you ever tried to return a piece of opened software? If the defect isn't on the disc, exchanging it won't do any good. You cannot appeal to a free market argument like caveat emptor once you've already acceded to a decidedly non-anarchistic world where the government grants and enforces copy and license rights. Consumers have positive rights too, like the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. You can be cavalier and abrasive as long as you're right; when you're not right, then you're just being an ass.