And before anyone says that PC game backdoors are just a "conspiracy
theorist's wet dream", read these first!
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/blizzard_entert.html
In 2005 Blizzard was found to install spyware on gamers' computers "to
prevent cheating".
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/11/149228/activision-blizzard-secretly-watermarking-world-of-warcraft-users
Blizzard's WoW game has been secretly watermarking screenshots with
potentially identifying information in them.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/1214206/ubisoft-uplay-drm-found-to-include-a-rootkit
Ubisoft has apparently distributed rootkits on people's computers in the name
of preventing cheating.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1838237/ubisoft-has-windows-style-hardware-based-drm-for-games
Some users of Ubisoft software have found their games "bricked" because they
apparently changed their hardware too many times.
It turns out free software is important for games. Free software would allow
a community to remove these anti-features, and stop users from being
mistreated.
