They see one million year long subscriptions purchased as part of the Diablo 3 bundle as agood sign, and they believe that even with retail sales down, digital copies will move far more quickly, and have a better profit margin by cutting out the middleman.
The long-distance Javerts in the tough-on-immigration movement need to take agoodlong look at Les Miserables, whether the book, the movie or the musical, and see the bit of Javert in each of us.