Perforce is free for up to 20 users. I have used it religiously for about 10 years. I like it's atomic check in feature.

These arguments sound a lot like the old debate between writing in C or writing in Assembler. Perhaps it's time for someone to develop a compiler which compiles (insert favorite coding language here) into stored procedures as needed to eliminate the need to write and maintain them ourselves.

The problem though is that in order to facilitate hard time the government has to get involved. And seriously, who wants that? I would be in favor of mobs of people descending on the offenders with tar and feathers before I'd advocate government "assistance".

Did you really just say give hard jail time to people who hack games? Come on, like we don't have enough people in prison now. Virtual hard time I'd agree with (i.e. banning from the game for using hacks...which I believe has been done by some vendors). To me, it's the responsibility of the game developers and the ones making money off the games to enforce the laws (or to go wild west if they so desire).

Perforce is free for up to two users.