Exactly! The reason Steam works is because it's providing a massive amount of free services that you won't get if you pirate the game. It's convenient, has great pricing and discounts, and has a community built around it so that people actually want to play the game and show it off to their friends as part of their collection.

There will never be anything that someone can program or make that can stop piracy. If you can engineer it, a pirate can reverse engineer it. They are software programmers and engineers too. Why anyone would think programmers on the anti-piracy side are any better than the programmers on the piracy side is beyond me.

Release your games on Steam. Valve can keep adding more features to Steam to make it even more appealing. Make steam an experience people don't want to miss. That's the best way to deal with Piracy.