>>74155
Its already more or less the case, if you pay a really good programmer he can crack the protection of any software, but it will cost like 50-100k+ to get someone like that for that amount of time.
So its neither worth it for an individual trying to steal that software for himself that is 70 bucks, nor worth it for pirate business trying to make a profit from it underselling the original 70 bucks. This is how security really works, rather than law and stuff (those are addeded infosec/risk costs)

Now you could do it for less than the price of a full game, or will be able to do soon.

So adding the physical/energy cost to tech is just a way to restore that.