I was going to say the same thing. Okay, maybe in 1999 or 2000 that would have been funny and appropriate but saturation is nearly complete as far as web use goes and I'm pretty sure that most cops, generally being 25-55 years old and living in the same society as the rest of us, are quite aware how the internet works.

I suspect we need to look to Asia for why they made this decision.

LAN parties in the US are a dying breed, and Blizzard likely knows it's only a certain old school breed that will complain (and then many of them will go buy the game anyway, or just complain loudly but never would have.)

(Besides, if you even remember when LAN were commonplace you're probably 35 or older... not exactly the target demographic...)

But LANs are huge in Asia. Look at all the gaming cafes that run dozens and dozens of pirated copies, for example. I suspect Blizzard's willing to sacrifice the few Western players who still have old-school LAN parties to try to corral the Chinese and Korean markets.