What's the point of pirating the game if you won't be able to do all the great online stuff? File sharing? New Stuff? Etc. There will always be piracy, no matter the platform. The goal is to make people want to invest in the game. They could easily do that by releasing an editing kit which works by registering with your LIVE handle, etc. There are ways to make it work. But you have to embrace the PC platform as the PC platform, not like a console platform. This includes the population which surrounds it. Meaning featuring dedicated servers, rcon, modding, etc.