Crysis 2 Leaked

[iddqd]

to be fair, the HL2 leaked alpha was remarkably useless. it had like 0 actual content.

E: If I were crytek and I got a few million downloads on this leaked beta, I'd be exstatic. Assuming it's not terrible... there's no sense of giving out free samples of a bad product. No-one will ever buy it after that.

E2:

If these pirates would quit being dicks and stealing everything, maybe normal consumers like myself and others could enjoy a game in peace instead of having to face ever more draconian DRM technologies. Stunts just like this one are what cause a publisher to demand more aggressive DRM in future developments. These pirates are the problem not just for publishers but for us, the regular consumers, as well.

Imagine you own a fruit stand, and you find that a few people would rather steal your apples than pay for them. Your solution: you inject all apples with a deadly neurotoxin, and give all paying customers an antidote, which has a fairly high (but less than 100%) success rate.

Do you think this a reasonable solution?