[Betty_Swallocks]

At last someone speaking sense.

There are companies whose products I will not buy at any price because I have had such problems with their oppressive copy protection in the past. Codemasters springs to mind.

All the copy protection does is slow the pirates down a bit anyway. Look at Assassins Creed. There are cracks out for that already and the game hasn't even been released yet.

Long after the pirates have played the game through regular decent honest customers will be suffering from the instabilities caused by the copy protections though.

The last Codemasters game I bought forced me to replace a perfectly serviceable DVD drive because the copy protection refuesed to recognise it.