For the record; I think Stardock has come up with the best anti-piracy system possible, while still keeping their games easy to use. I am extremely happy for instance, that they do not require an official CD in a drive in order to play. I find that sort of thing extremely annoying. Having to log on to an official site in order to get updates is a non-issue, as my system remembers passwords and such. I think their system might even be a tad easier than the old standby of download/install of most other game's patches.
Most consumers are utterly oblivious of the problem caused by piracy to the world's game publishers. The simple fact is that a company with a game that could sell 100,000 copies that had some sort of decent anti-piracy on them would be lucky to sell 10,000 copies if it had no protection and could simply be downloaded (and patched) from any pirate source and played. Having an anti piracy system that requires you to register your game in order to get patches from the official source, is in my opinion, absolutely the smartest thing a game publisher could do.
(Originally composed as a followup to another thread that was discovered to be locked 'after' I had written this.)
