Slow down, slow down, get slomo.
As long as the majority of us are independet developers with small budget titles, I would hardly prefer to not use these protections.
Good budget titles are standing for good developers and many pirate copies have one big advantage - people are comming in contact with you and know your company.
Look at running with scissors and the main title postal 1. And now look after all the years what they are doing now and what they are.
They are only known because of the many pirate copies world wide.

No, I am not a friend of unpaid copies.
But they could be helping instruments for good lone wolfs.