I don't have to point out the reason we have emissions regulations is limit the pollution in our shared environment. Thus I am very directly affected if a larg

I don't have to point out the reason we have emissions regulations is limit the pollution in our shared environment. Thus I am very directly affected if a large number of people decide to bypass their emissions-regulating devices from their cars. However, I am only indirectly affected if a large number of people choose to mod their consoles (or jailbreak their ipods or what-have-you), maybe the cost of games increases. Maybe some developers fail. Now, given the choice between owning my hardware and the DMCA, I choose owning the hardware. Even if my beloved Nintendo has to die to make it so (ok not Nintendo, maybe Sony, or Microsoft, preferably Sony). (Next time segway into a seat-belt analogy, though that has the same fault; we require insurance and seat-belts keep insurance cost manageable. I think commenting on removing your cars governor would work, but then I would just point out that you only break the law there when you are speeding. As should be the case here, when actually pirating.) [Is my comment rhetorically weaker than derefr's?]