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Blizzard has a history of sucking as a company. They're nowhere near as evil as EA, but I still remember the whole fiasco when Blizzard what shutting down private BNet servers "to combat piracy."
As others have said, most pirates will still find a way to pirate the game, and Blizzard will only end up truly screwing over the paying customers.
StarCraft 2 is one of the few games I would truly consider paying for, but the main reason for that is because of how much fun I have had playing StarCraft over...well, you guessed it: LAN. The bigger irony is that while I now own a legal copy of StarCraft, I was introduced to the game after pirating it to play with some friends over... what's it called? LAN.
Fewer people will be introduced to StarCraft 2, because they won't be able to play it with their friends at LAN parties. Then again, maybe kids these days don't have LAN parties; I don't know. My friends and I still do every now and then though, so this is kind of annoying.
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