Quote - The idiocy of licencing or activation is only punishing honest consumers. Any hacker can crack within minutes any activation scheme and any illegal user can download a full working version online for free or buy in the street for few $$$, and what is "illegal" also depend on the local definition of "illegal".

I've heard that logic before but I think its bogus, first off for the most part how hard is it for a legal customer to activate a piece of software? though Im sure there are a few that are problematic, generally not hard at all. so for the most part it doesnt punish honest customers. And my second response to that arguement is that such security schemes are not always so simple as to assure complete security as much as to be able to prove that a company is trying to assure that a product is a legally purchased version, if they take someone to court who is using or distributing pirated software it is much easier to prove that is the case if the person is in posession of hacked software and are not under the impression that they own legal software.