@vokainen099 @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Yes, but they did it because "muh piracy".
https://web.archive.org/web/20080118150645/http://fourzerotwo.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-in-review-servers-servers-servers.html
"On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)."
It's only going to come back on Indie games that have exploits like webfishing does.