To combat piracy, your mission is clear -- provide a better service than pirates.

Competent, efficient, fast service will trump freebies for all but the most stingy of consumers, and that is why Sony practically deserves to be ripped off with its archaic way of doing business.

Using the PS Vita as the most recent example, Jimquisition proper goes off on one this week.

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