title: Preventing copy protection circumvention
body: <p>Anyone visiting a torrent tracker is sure to find droves of "cracked" programs ranging from simple shareware to software suites costing thousands of dollars.  It seems that as long as the program does not rely on a remote service (e.g. an MMORPG) that any built-in copy protection or user authentication is useless.</p>
  
  <p>Is it effectively not possible to prevent a cracker from circumventing the copy protection?  Why?</p>