Some years ago, Stardock and Gas Powered Games announced the Gamers Bill of Rights. 

Chris Taylor and I were very concerned with some of the practices of game developers and publishers that we believed were driving consumers away from purchasing games (or at least not pirating them).

We maintain the site: www.gamersbillofrights.org.

Stardock has tried to adhere to the GBoR and has not always been able to live up to the spirit of the document.

Moreover, as the years pass, the GBoR is becoming increasingly dated (does anything still make you put a DVD in the drive to play it? Are there any copy protection schemes still installing root kits?).

To that end, we invite you to post your own list of things you think developers and publishers do (not just PC but in general) that you believe are counter productive or even harmful to those developers and publishers in the long run.