The anti-what-word-is-on-the-17th-page-3rd-paragraph-of-the-handbook was a very common on for so many games.

And just anti-convenience! Nobody wants to swap CDs purely to tick a checkbox.

> Anti-backup, Anti-I-don't-have-a-cdrom-on-this-machine, Anti-I-lost-the-stupid-dongle, etc.

All perfectly understandable to me. But from the perspective of the people designing the anti-something system, wouldn't they call it piracy?

We can argue if piracy is a charitable enough name for bypassing copyright protections but that's irrelevant in terms of whether or not that is the thing the software provider is trying to do.