The consumerist.com has an article up about the DRM scheme for Gears of War. DRM is bad enough to begin with. But when you add a poor implementation of it on top of the existing DRM, you have a perfect storm of stupidity.

It turns out that the Gears of War DRM storm of stupidity means the game won't play at all after 1/28/2009. My suggestion is that everyone just break federal law and crack the DRM so you can play a game you legally purchased. I doubt anyone is going to get upset about a 3 year old game. 

DRM is so ridiculous. What a horrible burden on our society. I hope the media and game companies figure this out before they manage to turn us all into federal law breakers just to be able to watch video, listen to music, read books, use software, or even just play a frakkin' game.