Once upon a time I pirated everything, OS, games, office suites, you name it. I eventually got tired of trying to keep up with all the workarounds, keygens (the viruses that came with em!), and opted to 'go legit'. I must say its been a good feeling by and large.
So I purchased Vista and had a first experience... I didnt know how to get into the #$%^ing packaging! In the end, I litterally clawed my fingers into a crack, and split the thing open, and ruined the package for all perpetuity. I thought to myself, "Self, if this is what paying for software is always going to be like, MS better pay for all the Bandaids needed to hedge the bleeding opening their packages causes".
The moral of the story... Good job MS, just let me open the thing nice and easy so I can spend the next 3 hours tracking down serials to old software and locating drivers that are still in beta.