A guest editorial by Australian blogger Miles Philip, discussing the past and present day realities of piracy in the music and video game industry from the perspective of the average gamer.

I still have albums upon albums of MP3’s that I have never paid for, many of which go back ten years. Several of these albums I’ve since purchased a legal copy of, but that still leaves a bevy of tunes that are just sitting there in my iTunes library glaring at me with their filthy illegality. Flip open Steam though and you’ll find a myriad of recent purchases and idiotic but legal financial decisions. This inequity is not based on my respect for games publishers over musicians and record labels, it’s simply because I saw iTunes in its pre DRM-free days to be a faulty service and perhaps more importantly Steams quality of service is unmatched.

MattyJWest via armchairdiplomat.com »