I have to say that I just don't see the point of the phone home. It was cracked months ago.

SM tried to do what many companies have tried - to make it difficult to run a stolen copy. This is understandable. It is also understandable that some honest users would be accidentally inconvenienced as well, and we could all learn to accept that as a consequence of living in the modern world.

But they failed. Sure, only one in a 1000 people are capable of working around the protection, but once done by the skillful hacker, it is now available for anybody who wants it.

Meanwhile, honest users are occasionally disrupted from using the application. Since this harms the paying customer, yet provides zero protection from the thief, it seems clear to me that the implementation has not been justified.

I don't understand how it is so easy to defeat the protection - but clearly it isn't worth doing if the crack reached the public just days after the product was released.

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