Tablets, Chess, and the idiots at Ubisoft

So, I recently got a tablet PC. Pretty cool. For those who don't know what a tablet is, it looks a whole lot like a notebook or laptop but has some added functionality. Specifically, the screen responds to a stylus, kind of like a PDA, only laptop size. There are several different types. Mine has a keyboard and has a screen that swivels and lays down on top of the keyboard. Others have removable keyboards or no keyboard at all. Basically, it is totally cool.
But mine has one limitation, no CD or DVD drive...

Which brings me to the chess part of this post. Lately I've been playing a lot of chess and I've been looking for a good chess program to play against the computer to learn as well as play online with friends and others. For years, the default standard in chess on the computer has been Chessmaster. The most current version is CM 10, which is supposed to be pretty good. I've been playing the demo that I download and I like it so far, though it has very limited functionality. There are other options out there like Fritz, but it is quite a bit more expensive and I'd like to stay in the $20 range.

So Chessmaster 10 would be my first choice.

Now, I don't mean to make this very technical, but there exist programs that make the computer think it has a CD drive and you can put files into them and they will act like a CD drive, they're called drive emulators. A good free one is Daemontools.
The benefits of an emulator include the ability to put a CD image (such as a game or other program) on your harddrive and then simply put the image in the emulated drive. This allows you to not have to carry around a bunch of discs or even be able to find the right disc. You don't end up leaving your discs around and scratching them. It can also save valuable battery power in laptops because they don't have to physically spin the CD in the drive.It's also the only way I can use programs that come on discs on my tablet PC...

Which brings me to the idiots at Ubisoft.
They apparently put so much copy protection on their discs (like Chessmaster) that it makes it impossible to even install the game on a computer with a drive emulator or even a CD burner. WHAT!!! I don't know if they even sell computers without CD burners anymore. Anyway, I think it's needless to say that sales of Chessmaster can't be that good. I went to 2 stores recently and they don't even sell it.

So basically, Ubisoft, in an attempt to thwart piracy, has made is so impossible to use their software that, even though I would like to buy it based on the demo I've played, I won't.
Way to go Ubisoft, you've prevented piracy, but you lost a customer.