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Well, the copy protection pisses off some customers but it also prevents your average pirate from getting it, since something like this new system will probably take a while to crack. If pirates foiled is greater than customers pissed off, then they make more money than with no copy protection at all, especially since the pissed off customers already bought the software. Of course that doesn't take into account the people that pirated it but had no intention of buying it in the first place since there's no way to accurately gauge how many there are.
I think you get the same sort of thing happening with music, people don't want to spend the money to buy CDs, especially when it's easier and more convenient to download illegally. Software is somewhat less convenient but also more expensive.
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