THIS IS NOT WHAT BITCOIN WAS MADE FOR!

[ArticMine]

Set the value of the BTC too low and one can then pirate that game by simply paying the BTC amount.

If they are going to all this trouble they might as well just make the game pay-to-play and let people copy it as much as they want. Set the price low enough and most people won't bother cracking it and they'll make up the lower markup with increased volume.

On the contrary. They are using the cryptography of bitcoin to ensure DRM. probably using 1 satoshi per copy. If, on the other hand, one satoshi was worth $10-20 they wouldn't be using bitcoin for DRM because it would be too expensive.

The problem with this model is that the pirate just pays 1 satoshi to pirate the game.

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[johnyj]

What's the difference with existing implementation: By install a copy of game you create an online account, you have to charge the account to play

[mobile4ever]

Bitcoin is a free system, people will use it for what they want.

The freedom to exchange our efforts for what we want was compromised with the present fiat system. Bitcoin can restore that, and rightly so, because people have the right to:

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Hopefully, we will always have choices when small groups try to take them away.

[MysteryMiner]

This is nothing to be worried about. Game crack or launcher will void any DRM. I don't understand why the bitcoin technology is even needed because with unmodified install the plain old client-server model will be as good as it can be.

If the client is cracked, it can install and launch without any network communication and other artificial restrictions. End of all problems.