Yup, exactly why government should step in and mandate that registration numbers belong to people, not to drink coasters. The game companies should let the pirates copy as many games as they want. Until you register the game in your name and receive a personal registration number from the software vendor, you don't get to play. That's how much of the software I own works.
That's how all software should be required to work. Of course that would mean that a drink coaster would have next to zero resale value anyway, as merely getting a disk wouldn't confer the right to play. The disk would only be worth what a blank disk costs.
Hey, there is no ideal solution. The best available course would be for the game companies to toss enough goodies to legitimate players that they would be glad to purchase the game to get them.
I predict in ten years we wonder why we would ever want it another way.
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