Starcraft 2 - worth buying?

[esiaschdeprap]

The federal government needs to step up and make a ruling on behavior like this.

While I personally can't stand these sorts of practices, I don't see why your government, or any other for that matter, should have the right to tell Blizzard how to grant access to their servers. It's not like you have a right to play games. If you don't like the way they do business, then don't buy their product.

Nystul got it right, this is a lease not a purchase. Arrrrrrgh!!

So you want to make it illegal to lease software then? Why stop there? Let's make all forms of rent illegal.

I think you are oversimplifying it a little. The problem in my opinion is that the legal meaning of ownership has not yet extended itself into the digital realm. We see this in music and media. So then, it is the act of "selling" a product to us that we do not own thereafter that is dishonest not the act of leasing in a fair manner.

Would an ideal government fix this problem...yes. Or should I say maybe. Should our government do something about it? Not anytime in the near future. They already have so many things to NOT be doing...