Oy.
Do you run around screaming that you are either "with us or against us"? Do you accuse people of being industry plants if they don't rant against DRM every second of the day? Do you feel the urge to attack everyone the moment that they have a differing opinion?
If the answer to those questions is "no", then you aren't a militantly anti-DRM whackjob (although you may be a redneck :p). That isn't to say you aren't a whackjob for other reasons, but who is really sane these days (not me...)?
And for the record: I was never really the one defining DRM itself as "what inconveniences me". I was saying the other side was, considering that GoG was branded DRM-free whereas Impulse was not, when the only difference was whether you had to copy a regfile when you transferred it from one system to another. And, as people in this thread have pointed out (independently of me, by the way :p), GoG sort of breaks a lot of "rules" of DRM.
What I was saying was that people tend to define "DRM" as what bothers them, and the things that don't bother them as "not DRM'. This thread contains quite a few examples of that too. Why? Because "DRM" is a naughty word. People feel that nothing good can come out of it, so anything they like has to not be DRM. That strikes me as slightly militant, but whatever.
And we get it: You don't like Steam. You are stubborn and you are used to winning arguments by attrition (see what I did there, taking a small part of your argument that you later clarify and running with it? :p (see what I did there? Intentionally pushing buttons as a reaction to people feeling the need to run around attacking me :p (see what I did there? nested parentheses :p))). If you keep pointing out that anyone who likes Steam is part of the problem and is paving the way for Ubi-DRM, people will start believing you. We should all rant and rail against the things that we actually like, because you are either against DRM or supporting it.
And, since you felt the need to state your opinion on the matter, let me just clarify why I felt the need to point out how vague the definition of DRM is:
I don't like Ubi-DRM. I don't like activation-model Securom. I do like Steam and EA's DLC model, but a lot of people don't. I don't particularly like Impulse, but that is more because Stardock's client and servers suck compared to Valve's (I actually really like Stardock :p). But the problem is, half the ninkers out there feel the need to scream "No DRM' and "Anti-DRM'. But everyone has their own definition of what they consider DRM. So there is no way to come to a consensus and actually accomplish anything unless people start getting more specific.
Otherwise, all a company has to do is call it a "service" instead of a DRM (or say that it is "100% DRM-free" :p) and people will think it doesn't count. Then we get something as laughable as the MW2/L4D2 boycotts which only serve to hurt things. Hell, there is at least one guy here who thinks Steam and Impulse in and of themselves are DRM-free. Can you see how that might prove problematic during a boycott? :p
And, while we are on the topic of hijacking threads to soapbox, let me say my biggest pet peeve with all the anti-DRM people: You don't offer an alternative. Raging against the proverbial machine is fine and dandy, but if you don't provide an alternative, you really are wasting your time and sound like an idiot.
Some people say that DRM is evil and should be done away with. Somehow, I don't think the publishers (or devs, for that matter) will really agree (en masse).
Others point at GoG as an example of the right way to do things. Unfortunately, GoG is just demonstrating that older games don't need DRM (which is something that has already been discovered and accepted), and that providing enough incentives makes people likely to buy instead of pirate (which is arguably why the DLC-based model came into being. Yay! :p). Then there is the lesson Ubi took from it, "If you say it isn't DRM, people will believe you". Hopefully Ubi was wrong, but I am starting to doubt it.
But what I very rarely see is anyone proposing a realistic option. THAT is why I always make it a point to say that I like Steam or the EA DLC model. Those methods seem to be effective and accepted, and (in my opinion), they don't hinder the user as much as other models. Admittedly, I don't care about resale and don't live in a region with distribution-hell (most of the time). But, c'est la vie.
Hopefully this won't double-post, and will just append.
It is pointless quibbling to discuss what we are actually suppose to be boycotting? :p
And yes, in a perfect world, everyone would perfectly define what they are arguing about so that the other side could respond on a point-by-point basis. Hell, we would make powerpoint presentations (with no animations, so they can be turned into pdfs) and share them, this way it is perfectly clear what we are against and what we are for. Also, unicorns would exist, and there would be a Ryan Reynolds in every bedroom.
In the real world, people just say they are against DRM :p. And certain actors have lawyers who know how to file restraining orders.