[George W. Bush]

More spying defeated. Intuit should know better than to try it. The real pirates weren't going to fall for any lame ancient C-Dilla spy scheme anyway. Hard to believe Intuit was stupid enough to think this would go unnoticed. They've given themselves a black eye for no good reason.

[Poohbah]

You're right.

If I owned Intuit, I'd make proper functioning of the program dependent on it not being pirated--but I'd let the user operate it anyway. You can stick all manner of subtle bugs into the program that activate if the registration doesn't match up...

Let the pirates wonder why the IRS is hitting them for an audit, back taxes, and penalties...