Agreed. There is a way stop this.
No there isn't. Just use the latest StarForce or TAGES protection on the CD's. End users can't make 1:1 backups of them.
Yeah they can. Doesn't take more than five minutes of Googling to find Alcohold120% or BlindWrite. Nothing stopping them ripping an image of the disc and downloading a patch, but not everyone knows where to get such patches.
Again, anything not already at hand, is only a short google away. Most people know how to google.In a recent website poll with more than 5000 people answering the question "Which search engine do you use the most" Google came out on top. The second place was "Other" which got 7 votes. Yahoo and MSN where way down the list.
BTW, can WMV licences be cracked?
Ofcourse they can. Everything can be cracked. Just because they can't do it today (in a reasonable polynomial time), doesn't mean they won't be able to do it tomorrow.