"safeguard against piracy"

Like this will make LAN pirates buy the game lol. It's actually the opposite, I bought the original SC back in 1998 after I played it on a LAN party. If I had not played it on LAN, I probably would have never bought it.

The only thing removing LAN option does is that it annoys LAN people and makes Blizzard lose few sales...removing LAN option to prevent piracy is one of the stupidest ideas I have heard for awhile.