I just found out about (old news) the Star­craft 1.15.2 patch, other­wise known as the “of­fi­cial­ly-spon­sored no-CD patch”. I wish more game com­pa­nies would fol­low this ex­am­ple and re­al­ize that copy pro­tec­tion is use­less: no mat­ter how ad­vanced, gamers fig­ure out ways to avoid copy pro­tec­tion, and it just caus­es prob­lems for in­no­cent and le­git­i­mate users any­way.

On the other side of the coin, more gamers should just grow up and re­al­ize that com­pa­nies do want to get paid for mak­ing games, and that they should think about may­be pay­ing for their games ev­ery on­ce in a while. Take the ad­vice found in no-CD crack READMEs to heart: if you like this game, please con­sid­er pur­chas­ing it. If both sides of the “bat­tle” work to­geth­er, we can may­be end this ridicu­lous an­ti-con­sumer non­sense.

Still, it would be nice if more game com­pa­nies would patch their games like this. Prefer­ably a lit­tle soon­er after their game is re­leased too!