At least Steam/Valve warns you. A lot of the time they have it in small print on the box for unsuspecting customers. I believe the original had something similar as well but they removed it after a few months (although the Steam version was free of this crap). Hopefully they do the same with this version.
I was going to hold off on this until Summer anyway as I'm on a tight budget, but unless they remove the DRM I'll probably give it a miss completely.