Big Companies are looking more like idiots every day >.>. This will not influence a pirate to go out and buy it, if anything, it'll influence them more in the direction of "revenge". 1.It's costing money to have the servers run the checks, and for the salaries of the coders. (Loss) 2.Pirates will still crack it and d/l it. (Although not really a loss, you still loose money) 3.Customer service will be rediculed (if it's available) about games shutting down because majority of customers won't be aware that their games brake so they'll need to make another copy if not they lost a future customer. (3rd loss, are you getting the point yet) 4.You get the same amount of sales that you would've gotten had you not made the above 3 losses, which means instead of getting your usual 5, your getting about 2 and a half now. (4th loss) Point is, you fail.