It just makes it worse.

I can guarantee within a week if not less of Starcraft II being released, not only will a pirate version be available, but someone will have hacked it to provide LAN capability. In short providing customers with what they actually want, as opposed to maintaining the corporate greed.

I know tons of people who download cracks just so they don't have to carry disks around on legitimitely bought games. I know people who have spent thousands on gaming over the years, who are being forced to pirates to escape the curse of DRM and the insiduous programs that are used to enforce it (it's getting to something when people trust pirates more than the legit companies).

DRM is an inconvenience at best, and an attack on a PC and removal of customer rights at worse. DRM is used to punish the consumer and create a facade of anti-piracy, it in no way stops, or diminishes, piracy.

As for Blizzard, blizzard is gone and Blizz-Activision remains. And it is rapidly turning into a money grabbing micro-transaction monster. They have already done a lot of things they said they never would since activision took over, and they'll do more. They will squeeze this company and it's franchises for all they are worth, the CEO has admitted such, and the Blizz COO is now an old Activision boy.