I understand software companies want to protect themselves, I get that.

The concept that my software I buy is "rented" makes me ill. If I am renting the software, then it should say "FOR RENT" in all the stores, not "FOR SALE".

And this goes for all software. These days term for nearly any software that requires any sort of activation seems to indicate that you are just renting their software for a limited time. Well, I wish there was more clarity in most consumer experiences. Warranties can be a load of crap too, especially extended ones. What the sales person tells you and what you get are often very different things.

Back on subject... I can see that Blizzard wants to protect their game, but I don't think they will win this bot war. With such a big game, there are too many people out there who can make their own bot software and likely there is probably a lot of open source bot software too flying around. The more Blizzard fights it, they more they inadvertently challenge programmers to best Blizzard. Then you end up with thousands of young, adventurous programmers looking to create the ultimate Bot program... Yea... Blizzard will win that fight, heh.

Of course, Blizzard can take up the sue everyone tactic. Isn't that working great to curtail the distribution of DVDs, TV shows and music? Right?