Simon Says wrote on Mar 31, 2014, 15:56:

Let me set you straight, no wifi hotspots in my area. I'd rather go to a friend a of mine with a UBS key and download off piratebay once and never have to be bothered again with disguised DRM.

I have loads of legit games here I bought in dvd/cd format back when all was needed was a CD/DVD/Serial/phone home once check. Back then the protections were circumvented, but they werent a pain in the ass, but I wouldn't bother with cracked software because it wasn't a pain in the ass. So I actually bought games.

Right now its: Buy DVD, oh, no data on the DVD, or data, but still 2 gigs of crap to download as a useless day-1 DRM measure ( which gets circumvented on day 1 anyway ). And you can't download patches, or these day 1 downloads on usb keys, you actually need your computer, yeah I'm going to haul my desktop around to a Wifi hotspot, ofc.

Well, when they began doing this, I got fedup with the crap of hauling my computer case around. I stopped buying and started cracking and loading to a USB key, fuck you, won't jump into 36 loops in the right order with my head upside down and pay for your ( useless, since they get cracked day 1 anyway ) paranoia. Bbye.

Ok you DO realize your situation is a minority case, right? I think data caps are horseshit, altho the 250gb caps that Comcast and AT&T have aren't absurd...it's pretty hard to hit that cap, even during a Steam sale.
So I'm guessing you live in a rural area, and have a small ISP that's raking you over the coals. That sucks, but you won't get a larger company to wire up your town (or god forbid you live way outside of a town). The cost will never, ever be recouped. And since everyone was too busy watching football or the Kardashians to bother complaining about deregulation, they aren't even required to PRETEND they care anymore.
If you do live in a small town, and you're IN TOWN, see about getting your representatives to pester Metronet. If there's enough interest in your town, you may be able to get them to wire up fiber to everyone's house. If your town is packed with old folks or hillbillies that don't care about that there inernet, you're fucked.