> What you effectively doing is wasting time on useless stuff. This is even more useless than trying to prevent copying of DVDs or pirating games.
Can you be so sure? The Union blockade of the Confederacy had plenty of holes, and smugglers / privateers / blockade-runners made good money getting through (when they survived) ... but that doesn't mean the blockade wasn't effective all the same at weakening the Confederate military and economy.
Honestly, no. This one time I was pissed off at Egypt for undercutting me in cotton prices, so I tried to set up a blockade to prevent merchant ships going in and out of Cairo.
... and it would have worked, too, except for my naval vessels were all CSS classes. I even tried to name them cleverly, a la "USS hero unit" or "USS datatable table-consensed span9", but my plan was foiled.
Can you be so sure? The Union blockade of the Confederacy had plenty of holes, and smugglers / privateers / blockade-runners made good money getting through (when they survived) ... but that doesn't mean the blockade wasn't effective all the same at weakening the Confederate military and economy.