Need to be able to check if cd keys are authorised anyway, hopfully not going to cheat and buy a gamespy solution off the shelf now are we
As far as CD copy protection I think that's normally the publishers call, so unless atari are going to switch to a better system people will still be stuck with SecureROM (which I alwasys found starange when it's such a well known system that people can have cracks out for it before the game hits the shop shelves).
But then I'd rather have a broken CD protection thing than a microsoft style product activation.