Red_Avatar: Expect more such issues popping up in the future.
I'm becoming more and more weary of any items that rely on remote activation to work. Now, our games demand this, consoles will demand this and soon, it will be TVs, DVD recorders, etc. etc. Which is all fine and dandy until, after X years, the servers disappear and your electronics become worthless. I can still play my Atari 2600 but the next console may die a lot sooner than that if you're required to have a fixed connection.
Yep, that's the stupidest thing the industry can do, because having no consideration for its past means destroying itself: services like GOG.com, remakes on PC, Xbox-Wii-PS3 network (and the money the companies make on them) owe EVERYTHING to the fact that gamers still remember (and play) old consoles, old games, old amusements.
Crippling game platforms with the shitty shitty shit of remote activation will do no good to the industry, because in the upcoming future gamers won't be able to remember (and play) systems that will be unable to interact with. They sacrifice their future for a current, short-sighted profit.
And this leaving aside the enormous problems this behaviour bears to the archiving efforts made by cultural institutions worldwide (the US' Library of Congress or the Bologna's Cineteca in Italy, for instance).
