Ign.com a site I have loyally subscribed ($30 a year) to since 2001 once again has locked me a paying subscriber out of their site for the duration of E3. This is the second time they are using this live streaming middleware called “livewire” what it wants me to-do is install DRM so they can control the content I watch and prevent me from dumping their video steam to my hard drive not something I was planning on doing anyways. It’s pretty asinine that I a company I have given over $150 to in the past 5 years would treat me a paying customer like a criminal trying to steal services I’ve already paid for! Last year they gave me a $5 credit on my account which helped a little but it doesn’t make up for the fact that I had to spend that money on their competitor. Now some of you might ask me why I don’t just jump ship and use their competitor all the time and the reason is that ign has one of the top 10 most visited message boards on the internet and is thus a great resource as well as a location of a lot of my on-line “friends.” In the past 5 years I’ve made over 20,000 posts there (compare that to the 400+ blog posts) and have met a lot of cool people that I’ll never meet in real life and don’t plan on. Once again ign thanks for screwing me out of the services I pay you for.