Dont you just LOVE the way they try to "hide" important things like "internet connection needed" ??? All just to get more sales.... cause if they advertise it in big bold letter on the front of the box...
" Internet connection required (and no a dialup wont work too well, since the authorization takes up about 6mb EACH TIME)"
no one would buy it... they would walk straight past it, and go to the closest "fleamarket pirate dealer" (in SA we had until recently a very big gap in our piracy laws... it is illegal to pirate anything... BUT if you import goods from a place where under THEIR laws, it is legal to reproduce the item, you may legally sell it in SA - which is why we import HUGE amounts of dvd's and cd's from malasia and korea, where the copyright laws are much more relaxed, and sometimes not even enforced.... the law has now changed.... but its still in the beginning stages of being enforced, so we still have shops selling pirated goods, and roadside vendors walking around selling pirated dvd's (bad quality though)...
