I'd like to point out that five years from now, we will probably(definitely) have game hacks that will allow you to play without online activation. It's almost like 2k supports piracy or something.
And anyway, things are worse than you think. The DVD you, mkreku, and everyone else who has already bought the game, isn't actually the full game. The internet "activation" bit is actually a download of a bunch of game critical files, including the main executable. Yay.