[Fnoord]

It reduces confidence because warez is associated with running cracked software of which you don't know exactly what was modified/added/etc.

[jameskegel]

My how far we’ve come in such a short few years.

[Fnoord]

Eh, not sure what you mean, but yeah some DRM is obnoxious and almost spyware. Warden, World of Warcraft's DRM, is for example profiling your system hard.