360 Piracy

  With the industry continuing to struggle against rampant piracy and Ubisoft about to deploy their always connected DRM, will we eventually see DRM for the 360?  9 times out of 10 there will be a 360 version of a game on the torrents before a pc one, and while Microsoft can ban people from Live, nothing can stop pirates from playing single player on the 360. 
  This means that either all 360 games need to start having amazing multiplayer/co-op experiences, in order to convince more people to buy and play their games without risk of being banned, or companies/Microsoft will have start taking steps to protect sp games like Ubisoft.  
  Will there come a day where you have to be connected to Live to play single player campaigns?
 
Edit:
From VGChartz article about 2009 piracy (numbers from TorrentFreak)
" Modern Warfare 2 of course leads the bunch, with downloads of 970k. Street Fighter 4 and Prototype were both pirated over 800k times. DiRT 2 and UFC 2009 Undisputed were also pirated over 700k times. DiRT 2 actually has more illegal downloads then retail sales, very bad news for Codemasters."

It all depends how Ubisoft's DRM works out. If it's terrible then I would bet no one else would do the same thing.
 
But something will work eventually.

Since microsoft controls what happens on it's console, no there will never be any DRM other than what microsoft puts on it. Console piracy is nothing new and they're having no problems selling games.

" Since microsoft controls what happens on it's console, no there will never be any DRM other than what microsoft puts on it. Console piracy is nothing new and they're having no problems selling games. "

People people people, please educate yourselves.  The whole point of the console's built in TPM authentication is DRM.  The 360, PS3 and Wii ALL use DRM.

no, there won't be any DRM for consoles. there are already somewhat of a DRM on consoles, at least the 360. if u put a hard drive on another console and not on live than it will say u have to be on xbox live to play the game.

" @SeriouslyNow: Changed my OP slightly.  Should companies be putting more pressure on Microsoft then as some of them are losing a huge amount in potential sales and those numbers are just from the torrents. "

It happens. its going to continue happening. Just like PC piracy. Really nothing you can do about it, and talking about it more isn't changing anything. Even with it they aren't having problems selling games for the 360 or anything.

Just let local law enforcement crack down on videogame pirates. Break down doors. Put cuffs on them pirates and throw them all in ass-rape central!

Console Piracy is an asterisk when you talk about PC software piracy...
 
Add in the fact that you can't get on LIVE anymore with a modded console and the people who go through all that trouble now probably wouldn't have bought it anyway...
 
It's a non-issue...they aren't sweating as much now like they were last year.
 
And again...people are going to the consoles for security on sales.

I HATE game pirates >:(

In the end, DRM will only hurt paying customers, and pirates won't care or be affected in the slightest.

" In the end, DRM will only hurt paying customers, and pirates won't care or be affected in the slightest. "

 @oldschool said:

" @Meowayne said:

" In the end, DRM will only hurt paying customers, and pirates won't care or be affected in the slightest. "

Exactly.  It only punishes the good customer and has no effect on the non customer.  When will they learn that as those on the edge get pissed off about restrictions and are more likely to become the non customer.  There are always better ways and DRM is not one of them. "

But something will work eventually.