Legit buyers, screwed again

From Eurogamer:

Command & Conquer 4's requirement of a permanent internet connection is causing problems, with some purchasers unable to play properly since the game's release last Friday.

One reader wrote to Eurogamer describing numerous crashes after "unexpected loss" of internet. Repeat failures were met with the message, "We will contact you with a solution." Crashing loses in-game progress. 

This apparently occurred on both Saturday and Sunday. And this experience doesn't appear to be isolated; the game's forums are awash with complaints. 

EA community manager "EA_APOC" Tweeted that Russian and French clients have been patched. But they seem to be the only ones. 

I should note here that one of the purported reasons for the downtime was a DDoS attack on EA's authentication servers, in addition to (predictable) firewall and crashing problems.  The same thing happened to Ubisoft, which uses a similar DRM solution.

A stupid DRM scheme does not justify an equally stupid response from hackers that oppose such measures "on principle." But there are better solutions to piracy; ones that don't subject paying customers to this kind of inevitable nonsense (Steam is one example).  

Then again, no one that bought C&C4, Assassin's Creed 2, etc. - knowing that a constant internet connection is required - has any right to complain.  Until a substantial majority of gamers refuse to support companies that use heavy-handed DRM schemes, we're all going to have to live with this crap in one form or another.