Retroactive Copyright Protection

Relic Entertainment pulled a fast one on people buying pirated copies of their software Company of Heores. The original version had no copyright protection aside from the usual cd key entry requirement. Upon applying the update patch, users of pirated software found that they needed to log in to Relic's online service in order to play even non online games. It goes without saying that the pirated version of the games were rendered unusable . Tough luck .