Agreed. Personally, I pirate lots of things I buy anyway because the DRM becomes a pain (Adobe and Microsoft products, for example). What's interesting is that

Agreed. Personally, I pirate lots of things I buy anyway because the DRM becomes a pain (Adobe and Microsoft products, for example). What's interesting is that I pirated Spore because I didn't want to put up with the DRM and the European/Australian/etc. edition was out on torrent sites before it was released in North America (for the record, I purchased Spore Galactic Edition and Spore Origins for my iPhone...). I'm not sure why companies want to give their customers a headache. I've had huge headaches dealing with genuine Windows installs that went away when I just pirate WGA cracks for XP and Vista. It's not cool when pirates have a simpler time than legitimate customers just because the companies want to discourage pirates so badly they're willing to sacrifice customer satisfaction in the process. On the other hand, I'm very unlikely to pirate something easily available on Steam..in fact, I'm not sure I ever have. For exactly the reasons you outlined.