Well to speak honestly, shouldn't they be allowed to try and protect their property? I mean, we may not like it, but they do in fact have that right of ownership. We are just getting a license to USE it. Software or music or whatever. It's all about the might dollar, of course. And billions are at stake. Can't blame them for trying.
It's just a cat-and-mouse game really. They raise the bar with more sophisticated anti-copying measures and all you experts find ways around it. I remember all the gloom-and doom when product activation came out. Well look at it now! Been going on for decades and always will be. There will never be a full-proof method to stop copying. They just want to minimize it as much as they can. We just have to stay ahead of the curve.