Yeah... But there are some ways of getting rid of it somehow Smile For example, in settlers 4 (don't like settlers but anyway) the program detected pirate version and made changes to game, like producing pigs instead of weapons... You said "whoa, what are you talking? this needs no crack, it's working" and then you flamed game for bugs, yeah... I actually had full version - but - as usually - I lost my CD code.
Btw. I hate games which have TOO much defense against piracy, like Blizzard ones (StarCraft, WarCraft, Diablo). I once borrowed game to a friend, now I of course can't log-in onto multiplayer, not to mention I lost one of cd-keys and I'm simply doomed if I don't use cracks. The CDs are made so that if they get somehow damaged you've got to buy new ones, so I'm not able to play half my games at all due to, hmm, over-use!