Software like Python debug tools and entertainment stuff like movies are in a
completely different category, that's true. If a movie is distributed
digitally, it shouldn't have DRM though. I understand that DRM might be a
tempting technique in the modern market. The modern market is just working
wrong, that's all. It doesn't mean DRM is somehow OK if in a given situation
it is easier to use it, than to ignore it (as a content generator I mean).
Games are a bit more complicated though. They are artistic entertainment AND
software at the same time. Ideally, the software parts would be free
software, while the artistic content of the games would be non-free, with a
preventive copyright.
Arguing that the lack of payment for a game development in an ethically sane
environment is the reason why it is no good is like arguing NOTHING should be
ever changed about the market how it is.
Sure you will not get payed as good when developing free software. This is
not the fault of free software, but the fault of a market, that is unadopted
to different business models in the software field.
Imagine if the GNU GPL, or something similar, would be enforced by law.
Software would remain perfectly sellable. Every good has high value, if the
demand is there and there is only one copy yet. You'd be selling the very
first copy of your software for a LOT of money, much more than today. The
second and third copy, you still might be able to sell for the same amount.
At some point you'll have to drop the price gradually, until it's just the
cost of packaging plus the service of burning/pressing the data on the disc.
Every other good is exactly the same, you can't make a chair once and sell it
100.000 times like you had to make it each time anew, when you don't. Every
other manufacturer is perfectly OK with having to produce 1 good for selling
it once. Only software manufacturers want to produce something once and sell
it x thousand times. It's going against every basic law of economy (because
those were written down when there was no digital data and effortless
copying). A software business would work, just like every other business
does, based on same old economy laws. Produce something once, get the
equivalent of your invested work in money back. Then produce again.
