No, you also need to log in to play. After one successful login, you they let you go into offline mode for a time and continue to play, but you still had to authenticate in the first place.
I think a court would disagree. How easy it is to circumvent doesn’t change what it is.
Yep, but you changing the system clock in a way that isn’t legitimate in order to circumvent the copy protection doesn’t make it any less illegal. Plausible deniability doesn’t go very far.
Well, yea, so if you are one of the few people in the world smart enough to do it yourself you aren’t going to get caught. If you’re hoping for the masses to be able to do it though, they need a crack distributed, and that’s where they get you.