So Indonesia recommended its Bureaucracy to use open source software (not even forcing them to , just recommending) and now the International Intellectual Property Alliance ( RIAA and MPAA are members of it for example) pressures the US government to put them on a special watch list of countries which don't respect IP. "The Indonesian government's policy... simply weakens the software industry and undermines its long-term competitiveness by creating an artificial preference for com...

So I thought about buying Company of Heroes from Steam or Impulse (once it is available) but after some thinking I decided against that and will buy it in a shop because it is the better choice for me. I find it discomforting that just because I get something digitally I don't have the same rights as when buying it in a store so I made the logical choice. If it was expected to be cheaper than in the shop I might have decided otherwise but with this regional pricing (I...