These online ordering systems usually work, but Curious Labs, like so many other software companies, has fallen under the false pretense that the higher and thicker the barracades, the least likely they will be breached by pirates, hackers, crackers, script-kiddies. And the walls get thicker and higher and the products still show up on the warez sites before they are even released. The thick and high walls result in our discomfort and irritation - the honest customers and users. A good article I read discussed the arms-race between piracy and countermeasures, was both praised and trashed, but it made some very sound points. No amount of protection will ever work - ever. Encryption schemes that require supercomputers to create have been cracked by people in their bedrooms! This all has to do with trust between groups. The old 'prisoner dilemma' - Game Theory 101. Right now, we're in a mostly lose-lose situation. The companies invest more and more time and money in protection schemes, which directly translates into more inflated consumer prices, which in turn causes these stupid guffaws when dealing online - all of which has almost no effect on piracy. When will they learn?

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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