If the ration is 20 to 1 doesn't that indicate that the DRM was pointless?

My point of view is that the anti-piracy countermeasures have been and will continue to be immense failures. Their own figures and analysis indicate that, FFS.

"Effectively, if the game isn't an online game or multiplayer game—there are challenges regardless of what you do—the game can be cracked." He almost nailed it there, but he should have said "regardless of what you do the game WILL be cracked." What are they trying to gain? If they are trying to goose initial sales, then they should patch out the DRM after a few weeks. If they have some other goal, then I'd like to know WTF it is.

"...we're going to make [cracking] it more difficult this time with Warhead." Translation, we're going spend more of our limited resources on this fruitless pursuit, so, it'll take them 4 days to crack instead of 3 and the ratio will still be 20 to 1, hopefully we'll piss off more of our legitimate customers.