An interesting development indeed, but also a very dangerous one.

If the games industry start to ape the music industries practices, its gonna do the opposite and turn many away from games. And has the music industries practices worked for them? Nope.

Lesson number one of customer service should be don't crminalise the customer. That recent £16.000 fine the polish lass got could have purchased a lot of Atari and Codemasters games. I'm damn sure that person is now a lost customer for them for good.

With Nintendo trying to grow the games industry and bring in new customers, the last thing they should be doing is chasing them away.

I was one of the 800 that actually bought Dream Pinball 3D when it was released, only to be plagued with a buggy activation scheme that was tripped at what seemed at random. Once I hit the activation over internet limit the game suddenly became useless.
Topware's phone numbers are disconnected and there in no support what so ever for this game leaving me feeling ripped off even if I only spent $20.
Ironically since I can't find a stand alone crack to remedy this problem I am forced to download a ripped off copy of the complete game.
Thanks Topware.