[wccrawford]

One thing you'd think they'd learn: DRM schemes like this punish legit customers more often than pirates.

Most of these can be fixed with a JPG scan.

The ones that modify the game can be fixed with a drm crack... With the side benefit that the cracked games are guaranteed to never mess up, where the real game did mess up for legit players sometimes.

The 'secret code' ones can all be solved easier with a keygen/lookup than actually doing the work... And of course, only pirates will even know there's a keygen/lookup program out there. And if they lose it, they just re-download it, unlike the physical media.