Don't Buy SecuROM Protected GAMES!

It appears that companies are trying to punish those who actually pay for their games. Anyone remember good old days of Need for Speed series where simple CD check was enough? Or simple CD check and serial key verification for Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2. It's not annoying and keeps those home pirates from copying the game too easily.
But here is a catch. They (EA) feel like they are going to prevent piracy with such protection schemes.
They know so much about piracy effect on their income and how their sales suffer because of piracy, but they obviously have no freakin clue how this affects honest customers. First of all, by buying such game i feel i'm treated like a criminal by default. And whatever you say, they'll always blame it on piracy itself. Wake up for crying out loud. Warez copies of Spore hit the torrent sites even before i got my original copy of Spore from online shop. Doesn't this tell anything to them? It does to me. Copy protection mechanisms are TOTALLY USELESS! And in the end, only honest customers get punished by them. Do you see a single warez user worrying about how many times he/she could activate the game? Of course not, because they don't have to. They don't have to pay anything and they don't even have to worry about protection. On the other hand, i do worry if i'm gonna use up all 3 activations before i even finish my game. Or what will happen 5 years later.
Do you think Spore will work after 5 years? Will EA actually care about us and provide a patch that will remove this stupid protection before they shut down activation servers? Will this game work on future Windows versions (we all know what happened with SafeDisc/SecuROM CD checks when we moved from Win98 to WinXP)?
If not, will EA provide patches for that? Why the hell do we have to worry about all this?
We are the ones who bought the game for christ sake! Shouldn't pirates be the ones asking themself such questions?!!?!?!

is Securom installing Malware, Viruses or Rootkits? You better believe it!

If you've had your dvd writer messing up after installing SecuROM Protected GAMES! please join my group and protest to EA!