Your opinion on piracy?

Let me put it like this ...

Say you just bought a Ford motor car. But after taking delivery it took an hour to start it while it tried to "connect to the server" at the Ford company, to validate you were the correct owner.

And then once you did that - and bearing in mind you have better things to do with your life than spend an hour starting your car - it stopped half-way to your destination because it "lost connection to server".

Should your purchase, legally and properly done, be dependent on the strength of the local Internet connection? Or whether the Ford "validation servers" are busy or overloaded? I think not.