Why should PC manufacturers build limitations into PCs just to please content creators? It's a ridiculous proposition.

People buy PCs to do what they want to do with them. If content limits that, then they're going to avoid that content.

People "stealing" software is the issue - so focus on the people who are doing something wrong instead of trying to force inherent limitations on everyone.

And to the people who blame piracy for "lost" sales: you're wrong.

PC manufacturers are in a tricky position.

Think about this. Say PC manufacturers bend tech to the whim of content creators. Can you guess what will happen next, in a world where PC owners are pretty tech savy?

That's right, such fiddled PC tech wouldn't sell, due to the modding nature of PCs. Who'd want a PC that couldn't burn a CD or DVD or shift files etc? The PC industry would possibly die overnight if it did embrace such stuff.

Nobody but the content creators would buy them. They are clearly the minority.

PC must be open source, for creations of all kinds, even the stupid virus kind. Piracy is the parasite on the ass of man, or like fleas on a cat, its a symbiotic relations ship both legal and illegal benefit from. Now you can kill some fleas, but they will regroup and return. Only by killing the cat, can you kill or get rid of the fleas.

Do we really want a dead cat PC industry, rotting in the midday sun?