The bad thing is that copy protections so far used have done everything to punish the legitimate buyer of the software. The pirates are completely unaffected to the point that the honest customer may be tempted to obtain a pirated version of the software they have already purchased, but can't use because the "copy protection" system won't let them!
Copy protection is nothing but a scam. Before Silent Hunter 5 is released to the public, it will be cracked, unprotected and available for free in totally uninhibited form all over the Internet. Who do the copy protection companies think they are fooling? We buy the games because we support the publishers. We realize that without paying for the games there will be no more games.
The losers in the copy protection scam are the game companies, sold a false bill of goods by slimy gangsters like Sony and friends, whose copy protection schemes and means of defeating them are common knowledge. The game companies have been talked into such fear by these thugs that they willingly pay millions of dollars to punish their best customers for the crime of buying their games.
Other than that I have no opinion.
