Blizzard and their *beep* CD keys!


After I got fed up with the sluggish pace of this forum I decided to go to battle.net's forum. Of all the ridiculous things, they require a CD key just to make a post even though you have to use your battle.net account to log in! I used my WarCraft III CD key to log into the site, but when I tried to make a post it demanded a StarCraft CD key. I've long since lost my StarCraft CD key so I downloaded a key generator program. Every CD key I used was banned until eventually my account was banned! I'll say it again: My account was banned for using too many banned CD keys in trying to make a post on a battle.net forum!
I hope Blizzard has better means of determining if a CD key should be banned than simply banning one for having more than one instance of it on battle.net simultaneously. Otherwise, if by some miracle I should find my old StarCraft CD key I might find that it has already been deactivated.
As it stands, I would have to buy another copy of a game I already own in order to play online. Blizzard either doesn't understand or doesn't care that a majority of people who try to obtain new CD keys do so because they already own the game and refuse to buy another copy. This is especially true if you consider that banning CD keys only effects online play and they already have mechanisms to prevent the use of CD-R's, disc image files, and no-CD cracks online. Maybe Blizzard should get out of the video game business and just invent a machine that sucks money out of people's pockets.

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I spoke too soon about the account ban thing. It seems to be only temporary. But everything else I said still bothers me! I still wish I knew how they decide which CD keys to deactivate. Can't a CD key generator program easily stumble upon a CD key someone is legitimately using?

Unfortunately for me I can't play Starcraft very well at all.
I can't play for the life of me either. But I sill love it!
By the way, how did you use normal text for your links? It'd be a big help for me because some of the links I post are pretty damn long.
I don't know exactly what you mean. I can see you know how to use markups. Do you think I've condensed the text of the link? I haven't. battle.net is simply a link to the home page. I'm OCD and not using the url markup feels incomplete.

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I just tried to post again at http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=sc2-general and failed. On the forum index, next to the StarCraft II boards, it says "Requires ANY Blizzard CD key," so I thought maybe they changed it since last time(I didn't pay attention to that part last time, it probably said the same thing). What a lie! I tried my WarCraft III CD key and it demanded a StarCraft CD key.
I really want to make a post about the ugly ass new archon design. I know the new siege tank design was changed do to fan outrage and I was hoping to do the same thing before it's too late. So if anyone has strong feelings about the new archons, please raise a stink about it on http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=sc2-general.

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