What´s the point of the new copy protection?

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Kamamura said:
Turin - I am an example of a person who was persuaded to buy by this 3.06 copy protection. I don't care much about the money, but international payments here are a hassle, if you don't want to open a big hole into your account (credit card - I don't trust them). But 3.06 was such a hassle that I persuaded my friend to order it for me. So, this scheme might be considered to be somewhat successful, because it's defense in depth, and no cracker will bother to look for all the checks inside the code.

So are you saying you wouldn't have bought the game if - instead of crashing - it stopped working and told you that "you are using a bad cd-key"?