There should be a balance between security and accessibility. When security gets in the way of proper use then there's a problem. The idea of permanent connectivity while playing sounds pretty wrong. They could at least revalidated after a few days because temporary connection problems do arise.
The DRM will only get in the way of legal users since the pirates have probably released a crack by now. There is always a workaround and there is no such thing as perfect security yet (not even the hardware keys, like the USB dongles mentioned in the first post).
While the DRM could be annoying, the reasons I would not buy SH5 for now is the lack of proper testing and the bug reports I've seen around. So I will wait for the gold release.
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