I don't think they are waging war against pirates. They are just trying to discourage potential buyers from pirating by making it look difficult. There's a strong argument that Microsoft benefits from pirating by the more tech savvy users, some of which would move to Linux or other *nixes if pirating was impossible.
Pointless exercise?
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