[Joe Forster/STA]

If you said you didn't have a CD key, then the moderators rightly assumed you don't have a legal copy of the game. Thus you were banned. (And not even permbanned...) What is so sophisticated about it?

Unfortunately, there is an incredibly high and (exponentially?) growing number of people here who are unable to follow the forum rules so, guess what, the moderators don't waste their time with carefully inspecting whether someone is really a pirate or he or she just said something very stupid. (Mind you, in ambiguous cases it is exactly mostly the moderators who not only don't ban people but rather defend them from attacks of other forum members.)