Mind your language - you don't need to insult others just because you don't like them.
Atari was the creator of many consoles like 2600, 5200, etc and many games - good old days
Atari after the disaster years ago with the Tetris game - Nintendo wins the battle against Atari in the Tetris game - the company change a lot. Nowadays they are a publisher - just like Blizzard is coming to be and others will follow - and so they don't need to create game but to distribute them. The bugs are not related to them but the devs companies Atari supports. If Atari or other publisher don't support devs companies (paying them to produce games) you don't play games.
What Atari is trying to do is just what JoWood did/does: create a custom protection system to protect their investment.