That's the problem isn't it?
Those AAA games are expensive to produce and that makes the publishers do anything and everything they can get away with.
So I do support stuff like Steam. After all, you DO use Google right? Even better, something like GOG (totally and always DRM free or they won't sell it). But not Origin. I don't really think of Steam as a game distribution service anyway. Valve tends to force publishers to do a few things to get on Steam (indie devs are not too happy about these too) but for consumers, they do give us a little sugar to go with the DRM if any. Online storage, matchmaking services and what not. AND... offline play (if the game allows it).
As long as humans are human, we'll have war and software piracy. And we'll continue to think of stuff that annoys legitimate user and slightly inconveniences the pirates.
Still, comparing Steam with GOG. Both are online distribution services... but you got admit, GOG's library is far smaller. So future games will look a lot like MMOs... in that you need to be online somehow to access them. OR... we can go back to dongles and cartridges (which WERE pirated, incidentally).
Remember how it was in the 'arcades'... would you like to see...
Game Requirements:
Valid Credit Card
Broadband access
- pay per PLAY. Everytime you start up the game or perhaps by the hour.
It won't happen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onlive Already did.