User blog comment:Prolietor Dominus/Skyrim PC update kills third party patch usage/@comment-3012881-20111128232509

Now I understand many peoples concerns and there are many misconceptions going about so let me clear some things up.

1) This patch will not stop current or new users who pirate the game. If the original version, with its crack, is available for download, then this new DRM will not do anything to stop them.

2) Piracy does not affect the games performance. Its whether or not the game can access more than 2GB of memory currently via the executable. But knowing scripters and many modders, they will write their own x64 exe for skyrim to circumvent this.

3)  This is probably not as much Bethesda's Decision as much as really ZeniMax Media's decision to do this.

4) So with all this in mind and this "patch" being more detrimental than helpful, I suggest steam users to turn off automatic updates and update manually from now on.