This is what I had been wondering about also:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=162428&page=1#

Why should someone have to bother doing tethering or whatever, for a device that plays game content?  Why demand the do this?  And that check in is lame.  It is ONLY, and I repeat ONLY for authentication.  It has NOTHING for doing updates or whatever?  It is just for cracking down on used game sales, and really nothing else.

No yo ushouldn't have to buy it but your nrother should havehis own account and buy his own game. Wgat you are doing by allowign taht person to never buy game adn rely on you to share it ,, is poracy because every game taht person finishess for free is one less sale adn profit to teh developers who worked hard for it. Look at witcher 2 and how many times it got pirated. It got pirated more times then actual copies sold.  Imagine how many people woul dhave done that by sharing to their friends. Also do n't you know you  neverowned teh game when you buy it. You just pay fpor the license to play th egame .

Why do people play steam? Why do people  need to conenct onlien to play games on steam?  Why is steam really popular? Is the way of teh future and irts boudn to happen  .  Sharing gaems to friends hwo would never pay a diem and repa the benefits of finishing the SP and multiplayer is worng and piracy. Whats teh difference in waitign  for a new game to drop in price then buyign teh second hand game. As you gusy buy it because its cheaper right? Why ot wait for ne game to drop in price.Same concept right .

For starters... You don't HAVE to connect to Steam to play games, it has a perfectly usable offline mode, when I moved house I decided not to get the Internet connected for a few months untill everything was settled and sorted out financially.

Plus, not sure on the US of A, but we are legally allowed to circumvent DRM, that's seriously easy to do on the PC, consoles? Not so much.

No. I shouldn't have to re-buy it.
And if that's Piracy... Then so is singing a song in the shower, letting someone borrow your car, someone else sitting down and watching a movie with you.

As for the Witcher 2 and Piracy... It's common knowledge the PC is rife with Piracy, developers and publishers still make Billions.
Problem is though, Publishers and Developers need to wake up and realise they need to give people incentive not to pirate, not just force DRM down our necks which does absolutely nothing except annoy the legitimate purchasers.
Do you really think pirates have to deal with DRM? Nope. Only legal buyers and the DRM will be circumvented on the PC.

Microsoft is adding DRM for the sake of annoying it's legitimate customers, if people are going to mod and pirate games, they are going to do it regardless of a 24 hour check in or not, they will just disable that functionality.

 You are right, but a lot of consumers are also educated and know why  DRM it's pure BS. Those consumers will most likely not touch the  Xbox One.

I didn't say you should rebuy it. I said your brother should make his own account and buy his own games using his account. Theres a difference here. It is piracy here as for each game a person doens't buy and borrow  to finish it ,, is equivalent to one less copy. Now if millions and millions do that , then milliosn of potential sales would have been lost. Imagine a good company misses target sales by 500k but finds out the game has been pirated 3 million times and now faces shutting down. Whos fault is that when it could have been prevented if you weren't allowed to share it like that. The reason why they are more strict because gamers these days are doign it more often we as gamners made thm do it by being chep skates. If you can't afford to buy the game ,, jsut wait till tis cheap. Is it that much important to polay the game straight away? Do you even know what Piracy means?

Um not all games. Metro2033 on steam requires me to be onlin just to get steam s you need steam to launch the game. You can't just put the game in an dlaunch it without launching steam. That itslef reyqures always on internet conenction. Same with Red faction armageddon. I have these games on pc hence why i know it requires an internet connection to just play the game. Haha pc market does not make as much as consoles. Wicther 2 doesn't have DRM and it was a bloddy good rpg yet people rather pirate it then pay fro the game. If teh game weren't pirated then teh dveloper would have attained bigger profit which would be useful to the company as its a small studio and any profit is good profit for them. PC gamers are generally cheap skates lol. There alot of good games that hav ebeen pirated alot because people don't want to buy it and pc games are genrally cheaper then cpnsoles by quite a bit  especially where i am based at .
Witcher company is against DRM hece the GOG site adn yet the game was pirated 4.5 millions time. What can you say to that?

"Microsoft is adding DRM for the sake of annoying it's legitimate customers, if people are going to mod and pirate games, they are going to do it regardless of a 24 hour check in or not, they will just disable that functionality." I am sure Ms woudl find a way to prevent it.  Gamers have to learn that nothing is free in life.. If you want to play game ,, spend the cash for it and if you can't afford it  then wait for a discount . Simple enough right?

Fixed.

Well yeah I kinda agree that most consumers are idiots. It's just surprising that Mehdi is willing to let us all in on that little trade secret and pretty openly tell people they are idiots. Of course very few people will read / hear of this condescending statement so it'll amount to not much.

and he is right... cause if it wasn't the case google, facebook, instagram and the likes would all be bnkrupt by now.... if some people in gamers community don't care like me cause it won't change anything to my habbits.... you can be sure it won't matter to a lot of people in the mainstream that use tech device the way they are a told without asking questions.....

and DRMs in one form or the other is an invetiable consequence for the entire industry you just watch, it will happen no matter what.... it might get better and less intrusive but it will be there...

I feel used games dont have much negative impact. So what now?