The state of DRM on SavyGamer has thoughts on digital rights management from several interested parties, including UK trade association TIGA, Direct2Drive UK, Positech's Cliff Harris, the folks behind StarForce, as well as "an informative website that gives people updates on the latest scene-releases" (pirates). Here's a bit of Cliffski's outlook: "I asked a lot of gamers what they thought was the cause of piracy, and got a huge percentage of people saying DRM was one of the main things that turns them away from playing games, so I concluded that it was probably costing more sales than it was actually helping. I used pretty weak DRM anyway, but I saw the benefit of being able to state that the games were 100% DRM free. For me, it’s just good business to not use DRM. For each company, depending on game genre, audience etc, that answer may be different." Thanks Mike Martinez and nin via Slashdot.